Welsh border ambulance times are under scrutiny
Monday 19th July 2010, 11:10AM BST.
Worries over emergency response times on the Shropshire/Welsh border are to be raised in Parliament after an ambulance took almost 40 minutes to reach a schoolgirl taken ill.
Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies will highlight concerns about how services are handled across the border of England and Wales.
He said the cross-border services issue had been brought to light again after a girl who fell ill at Llangedwyn Primary School, near Oswestry, waited nearly 40 minutes for an ambulance.
The school’s headteacher John Parkinson said an ambulance was called after the child began to lose consciousness, but it took 39 minutes to travel from Abermule – 28 miles away.
Mr Davies said although he would not be dealing with this specific case, he felt it had highlighted ongoing problems.
He said “It seems crazy there are no arrangements of how we can access the best services rather than confine one to Wales. What I want to raise is the development of support for services in England and Wales.”
He added: “I will raise it at the first opportunity. I hope to do it this week. I think it is an important issue.
“It is crazy a little girl whose life was in danger was put in greater danger because of the inability to go over the border. I want to broaden the issue to be a general one.”
At the time the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust said: “We are in regular contact with West Midlands Ambulance Service about cross-border collaboration and we are developing new guidance for our control room staff.”
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Perhaps if the Welsh assembly prioritised these types of things instead of spending all their money on political gestures such as free prescriptions for all the response times might be acceptable.
I dont see why us English should jump in with our money whenever the Assembly runs out due to its incompetent handling of finite resources.
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