Ambulance tonight

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

What do you want. I worked in an elderly care home did a social services accreditation and a social care degree getting a first. It’s that ok

I feel like op is having a conversation somewhere else and we are only getting snippets.

Surely they would need to be referred to social services before they would be under them. That is what the paramedics are doing. I know someone that was referred to SS by a paramedic. They were coping up to the point that they weren’t and the paramedic picked it up.

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

Tbf you do sound drunk and the people who are following what you're on about are doing all the heavy lifting. Maybe look back over this in the morning and see if it reads the way you intended it - and if you really think it makes sense to people who can't read your mind.

Well this is 2025 unfortunately YABU.

Things have changed in healthcare and social services massively.

When mum had her stroke Social Care were great .. managed the Assesment, assessed as needing 24 hour care, helped us find a care home, and the Council pay for it.

Social Care, in general, has been underfunded since 2010, and the coalition govt. I was working at the council at the time, and we lost about 50% of the budget … no choice other than to shut services, and change the thresholds to critical cases only.

No Social Care leads to greater pressure on other services such as ambulance and police.. and a revolving door of hospital admissions.

It’s a broken system.. it needs money… but everyone looses their shit when the Govt want to raise taxes etc. so how will it ever be fixed ?

How fucking patronising.

Maybe OP is drunk, and what? This is her thread.

Maybe get off your high horse and stop being so judgmental. What’s it actually got to do with you?

uh, as much as the next person including you. It’s not patronising to want basic coherence. You’re the angry and rude one here. Not sure why.

How drunk are you?

Im sorry but not a single post here is making any sense whatsoever

Obviously something has upset you, but so far, you haven't made one iota of sense

Yes. But then people wanted to vote Tory for more than a decade. Can’t have both. 🤷‍♀️

Nah. You have jumped on someone elses thread here to be a patronising little prick.

There was no reason for you to comment other than be a nasty person. At least own it.

I want you to explain what you are trying to discuss. You haven’t done that.

I watched it. The situation as I understood it was a child had been placed with an emergency foster carer - so social services had been involved. The child had a meltdown - due to trauma - and had scratcher herself and possibly harmed themselves in the process. The foster carer called the ambulance to ensure child was ok and probably to safeguard herself as child had new damage to her hands since she had arrived with her ? I feel the foster carer did a very appropriate thing calling an ambulance. Not sure what social services could have done

Only one person is being really nasty here and it’s not me.

Maybe you should look back over this in the morning and see if it reads the way you intended it - and if you really think it makes sense to people who can't read your mind.

The ambulance is sometimes the only service that witness how the elderly are living, a lot of that generation are very proud and don’t like to ask for help. They then alert social care when the person comes into hospital. It is then that a package of care will be put into place for them.

OP - there is obviously something you fell strongly about.

Unfortunately, your posts are a little garbled and you’re therefore not getting your point across. And then you’re getting short with people responding.

It obviously means something and is important to you. So maybe try explaining properly and you may then get better engagement.

Am not trying to be shitty, am trying to explain why you’re not getting responses that help you.

And what is your thread actually about?

Have you been to see a GP in the meantime ? Its a 2 way street if you need help, you need to search for it. With the best will in the world, services are overwhelmed and mistakes happen, but if you see another professional that should get the ball rolling. You have to take personal responsibility to help yourself.

I hope you get help soon

Absolutely clueless what’s being said here. Really weird thread.

Are some of OPs posts missing?

"Maybe you should look back over this in the morning and see if it reads the way you intended it - and if you really think it makes sense to people who can't read your mind." @PixieTales

Actually I think that @pinkdelight was right, and she wasn't being particularly nasty or anything in her reply (you on the other hand were pretty rude).

OP isn't making much sense and when people weren't understanding she seemed to be getting irritated with them. It's a good suggestion for OP to look back over what she's written with fresh eyes and reassess whether she can get her point across more clearly, I'm guessing she feels strongly and would like a proper discussion.

@pinkdelight spot on. You nailed it earlier. This is the weirdest, most random post I’ve seen in a while on here. Of course we can all read between the lines but tbh there are other more eloquent/clear posts we can engage with. Not sure what OP wants out of this thread?

Yes, ambulances get called out for things that are social care. The problem is that people keep voting for the Tories who have fucked this country to the point that we are almost beyond repair. It started with Thatcher, and continued with the coalition govt which prioritised austerity over helping people. If you look at what the country was like at the end of the Blair/Brown years and what happened afterwards with respect to tons of things - homelessness, poverty, education, the NHS - then you will see that Tories never help ordinary people. And yet people kept voting for them. Now we have a situation where the current govt is tied in knots trying to keep us solvent and pay for essential services.

Don't vote for Farage or any other right wing party, it will be even worse.

Of course she was being nasty. Jumping into a someone’s thread she knows nothing about to call them a drunk and patronise them.

I didn’t agree with OP but I would never be so rude. They could be vulnerable or maybe an addict. But that poster was really not helpful and could be very damaging to a vulnerable person looking for help on here. So no I don’t agree with it and I think they were nasty here.