60 Advanced Paramedic to work inHospital Cork

maglite

EMERGENCY treatment delivered at the scene of an accident by paramedics in rapid response vehicles is being proposed in place of fully functioning A&E facilities, according to a leaked document. The document, which contains the minutes of a recent, high-level meeting on the reconfiguration of the ambulance service in Cork has revealed how plans are being put In place to employ 60 new Advanced Paramedic staff as plans to downgrade A&E facilities in Mallow, Bantry, the Mercy University Hospital and the South Infirmary Victoria Hospital push ahead.

The proposal is in line with the recommendations of the controversial Teamwork report which proposed centralising all acute, complex care at Cork University Hospital. The report recommends downgrading smaller hospitals to ‘local centres of excellence’ and their emergency departments to Urgent Care Centres as well as the commissioning of an advanced paramedic workforce capable of undertaking medical assessments of the emergency patient and commencing lifesaving measures immediately. The minutes of the meeting state that a request has been submitted for funding of 􀁆8.5 million and 60 new staff for the implementation of a plan to ‘reconfigure’ the ambulance service in Cork and Kerry.

They also state that local A&E units ‘for stabilisation’ will ‘no longer be available’ following the realignment of all HSE acute services and that A&E’s at Bantry, Mallow, SIVUH and the MUH ‘will no longer exist as we know them’. Bantry’s emergency service will be the first to be ‘realigned’ in the region which would take place before a leading surgeon retires from the hospital in December 2009, the minutes state.
This will be followed by Mallow, Cork city and Kerry. The full alignment will take six years to roll out and will require the purchase of Ford Focus RRV’s fully equipped, with phones, GPS systems etc. These response vehicles will be manned on a 24-hour basis on 12-hour shift rotations with one paramedic per shift.



http://www.eecho.ie/pdf/front.pdf

Tango Alpha 51

This is already happening in the old mwhb area. There's only roughly 100 Ap's in the country & that's after nearly 5yrs of them being in existence. The same number of AP's were employed in the area before the reconfiguration of ennis & nenagh hospitals. Bar getting three Focus RRV's we got f... all else!!!!!

boomer_ie

maglite wrote: »

EMERGENCY treatment delivered at the scene of an accident by paramedics in rapid response vehicles is being proposed in place of fully functioning A&E facilities, according to a leaked document. The document, which contains the minutes of a recent, high-level meeting on the reconfiguration of the ambulance service in Cork has revealed how plans are being put In place to employ 60 new Advanced Paramedic staff as plans to downgrade A&E facilities in Mallow, Bantry, the Mercy University Hospital and the South Infirmary Victoria Hospital push ahead.

The proposal is in line with the recommendations of the controversial Teamwork report which proposed centralising all acute, complex care at Cork University Hospital. The report recommends downgrading smaller hospitals to ‘local centres of excellence’ and their emergency departments to Urgent Care Centres as well as the commissioning of an advanced paramedic workforce capable of undertaking medical assessments of the emergency patient and commencing lifesaving measures immediately. The minutes of the meeting state that a request has been submitted for funding of 􀁆8.5 million and 60 new staff for the implementation of a plan to ‘reconfigure’ the ambulance service in Cork and Kerry.

They also state that local A&E units ‘for stabilisation’ will ‘no longer be available’ following the realignment of all HSE acute services and that A&E’s at Bantry, Mallow, SIVUH and the MUH ‘will no longer exist as we know them’. Bantry’s emergency service will be the first to be ‘realigned’ in the region which would take place before a leading surgeon retires from the hospital in December 2009, the minutes state.
This will be followed by Mallow, Cork city and Kerry. The full alignment will take six years to roll out and will require the purchase of Ford Focus RRV’s fully equipped, with phones, GPS systems etc. These response vehicles will be manned on a 24-hour basis on 12-hour shift rotations with one paramedic per shift.



http://www.eecho.ie/pdf/front.pdf

I feel sorry for the crews who are going to be affected by this such as the Castletownbere ones as they will have a VERY long transport time now of close to 2 hours each way which would give them at most 2 or 3 runs per shift.

Closing down A&Es is not the way to go but I guess its preaching to the converted.

Hooch

buzzman wrote: »

This is already happening in the old mwhb area. There's only roughly 100 Ap's in the country & that's after nearly 5yrs of them being in existence. The same number of AP's were employed in the area before the reconfiguration of ennis & nenagh hospitals. Bar getting three Focus RRV's we got f... all else!!!!!

Well said

DubMedic

maglite wrote: »

EMERGENCY treatment delivered at the scene of an accident by paramedics in rapid response vehicles is being proposed in place of fully functioning A&E facilities, according to a leaked document. The document, which contains the minutes of a recent, high-level meeting on the reconfiguration of the ambulance service in Cork has revealed how plans are being put In place to employ 60 new Advanced Paramedic staff as plans to downgrade A&E facilities in Mallow, Bantry, the Mercy University Hospital and the South Infirmary Victoria Hospital push ahead.

Are they having us on or something.

The ambulance service is stretched to breaking point as it is , but now they want to further degrade the health system , rather than adding to it?.

How about opening more hospitals , rather than closing them.

Yeah you can treat someone at a scene to your heart's content, but they need advanced care that a AP just cannot provide at the side of the road. X-ray machines + surgery theaters & CT scan machines , are not standard in a Ford Focus RRV last time I checked.

Where does PHECC land in all this.

Is this what we pay tax for ? You must be joking me.

Health system is a joke.

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DubMedic

DubMedic wrote: »

Is this what we pay tax for?

It is unfortunatly. This is what people get for voting FF back in. I just hope people remember this the next time it comes to an election that matters.