St John Ambulance part charges?

[Grumph]

[QUOTE=haydes55;

As for ambo. Seems fair to me, I have personal injury insurance which covers these costs. My bet is they word the letter that way because it brings in more income. You used the service, you pay for it. The speedway pays thousands every year to have an ambo present. We don't expect the public to foot the bill so we can have some fun. Those who can't afford the bill will be on community services cards and exempt from the fees.[/QUOTE]

i'd argue that if you're charging admission, the public are at least partially subsidising your fun....

Community services card makes no difference to the fee, it's still charged. They weren't interested in taking the pensioners gold card either...

Drew - I worded it wrongly, I wasn't inferring that defibrillators are inherently dangerous - but my local VFB certainly are....

[bogan]

Yet another organisation that has no business needing to charge due to under funding (except for false alarms).


I can pay, and will (especially after GPs were mentioned - this certainly put it into perspective). Perhaps I'm becoming a bit socialist in my old age but I believe that this sort of service should be free for all in an inclusive society.


If only I could. There'd be a number of organisations that would never want for funding again.

Firefighters I can understand, cos insurance pays them, bit of a kick in the bollox if you don't have any though...

FFS. So my house burns down and the day I put the letter box back up I get a bill from Fireman Sam for not putting out the fire? This country is fucked. If I then go and disturb the peace at the fire station after receiving said bill and get arrested do those fuckers send me a bill as well?

Next some bastard is going to want to charge me for the electric.

Yeh, performance pay scaling should be the go, you get to burn as much of the bill as the fire did to your house before the firemens made it too moist.

[Madness]

On TV programs about prostitution one thing is common ... "money up front" ... apparently there is not so much interest in settling the bill after the event!

That was fundamentally what lead to Phil Rudd's recent issues as I understand it. That and being fried as an egg on P, of course.