Ambulance tonight

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They’re called to a social services situation. Social services doesn’t exist in this country anymore. Why.

Because they're so stretched and it's awful?

Cannot understand OP.
Can you expand please?

What social services situation?

I worked in Social Sevices for 20 years we would deal with these sort of situations. Would sort out people get them the help they neede

Social services were a part of council social care that’s when we had council care homes and council social workers. When this country were interested in caring about people

Nope. Still don’t understand your point.

What on earth are you talking about?

@alexdgr8 I think OP is talking about the Ambulance programme on TV which is a fly on the wall doc about the ambulance service. On the show, it’s quite common to see the Paramedics called out to situations which would previously have been handled by Soc services- lots of mental health and addiction type stuff etc. They also seem to get a lot of repeat customers that they have to see on a very regular basis.

The OP reads a bit like a haiku. It needs a bit of work though. I like the bleak tone. Very post-2016

I think an ambulance was dispatched to an issue which required a social worker. More context is required

And also situations which may have been avoidable if we had a better support system in general. So many services are doing badly across the board- Social Services, CAMHS etc- lack of funding, low staff morale etc- and this is having an impact on the ambulance service.

I assume OP is talking about the TV show ambulance, in which a crew is called to a situation that should fall within the remit of social services

True story.
I Called for an ambulance for a student at school. I was told we were priority and help was on its way. Two hours later the ambulance arrived.
I commented that it must be very busy, as I had been told we were a priority 2 hours before. The paramedic replied ‘ don’t know what happened there, we started work at 7am and this is our first call’.
I called at 8.30 and they came at 10.30

i didn’t watch tonight, but they often seem to spend extended amounts of time with patients that either don’t want or need emergency medical care. They then stay and do some level of social care support before leaving. It is really worrying how these situations are taking away emergency ambulances from emergencies. They have shown the mental health car, which I think is London based. Perhaps they need a social care car with a social worker and ambulance technician?

Because the average person doesn’t want to be paying for these services. They’ve been convinced by politicians that they’re being ripped off if their taxes pay for things like addicts getting emergency care or vulnerable adults having someone to talk to who isn’t the GP or a paramedic. No one wants to pay taxes and yet we throw our hands up and say but the cuts in social services…while the bar in Parliament is re-stocked.

So you don’t understand that this country used to have a social services network that would help people . Like homeless people, elderly people, young vulnerable People. So you don’t understand there actually used to be a government area that covered this…

We took our DD to a University Open day recently. She attended the talk about the Paramedics degree (she actually is going to apply for something else but wanted to hear about the Paramedic course too). Apparently the speaker was very honest about the job- said the average career length is around 6 years, and that a great deal of their work is picking elderly people up off the floor and dealing with mental illness. 😔 He did also talk about the upsides of the job of course, and there’s still a lot of competition to get on the course, so clearly there are enough people wanting to do it!

Ambulance came to me a couple of months ago. They were concerned and said they were putting in a request to social services. I have heard nothing.

We still do have adult and children’s social care, and drug and alcohol workers, and social prescribers and community support workers. They are stretched but they do exist. The issue is that these people often haven’t had referrals to the right people or they are on a waiting list or they’ve refused support.

No Op I’m is me is talking about her experience in care homes and care home; a& e care and personal experience

Blue lights cut the dark,
hearts mend what systems ignore—
need beyond the call.

There fuck all adult elderly social care

i worked in elderly social services 30 years ago. When my mum needed it 15 years ago it was non existent I get the feeling it hasn’t got better

You're still missing vital information

FFS this woulD have been a social services thing pleas see my later posts. And I have actually worked these situations which I doubt you have

You haven’t talked about any of this in your OP or later posts though. Can you start at the beginning?