Damn scary - new ambulance probe

[tri boy]

Amateur short wave/long band radio use springs to mind to me.
Can be easily linked to central comms/different frequency pick ups etc.
Works all around the planet. Hell, Kiwi operators have relayed emergency messages from Istanbul on to International Red Cross.
The back blocks of the Naki must reeeeealllll special.
Flame away Moth. heheh, flame/moth, get it, get it.

[Paul in NZ]

I think you have a bit of verbal diarrhoea so take a bit of meds for it.

Well - if you are referring to moi.... Yeah - I'd know fuck all - I just built most of the gateway systems that the emergency system uses to transit the land based networks (from the last manual boards onwards), the original answering points (including development) and toll rooms, the recent transition to newer units and have assisted with development of multi service in vehicle sytems in australia and the usa.

I have actual knowlwdge of systems used and developed by our company in Japan and systems developed in the USA to

Oh sorry - yeah, this is KB, I'm talking rubbish

[Pixie]

Now lets put all the good storys about ambos getting there on time and saving a life.
I bet they outway the negitive ones.
Yes it is a shame it happened but we don't live in a perfect world.

first it was cops now ambos, fire will do something wrong next and the media will blow that up with the "our services are all crap" line.

Nasty you do a fantasic job and we would all be crying without you. don't let this get you down.
I know all to well how crap the comms can be sometimes.

Yeah! and ignore the occasional fuck up so it never gets fixed.

It's the kiwi way

[BoristheBiter]

Yeah! and ignore the occasional fuck up so it never gets fixed.

It's the kiwi way

NO its ignore the reason for the fuck up and hang some poor fucker out to dry, and sit on a forum crying like baby's at how bad it all is.

Thats the Kiwi way.

[Naki Rat]

Part of the reason for underresourcing of Taranaki District Health Board ambulances has now become clearer. Hopefully a contracted service will provide better performance.

Meanwhile the donation of GPS units by community groups has been accepted by the TDHB but the organisation still maintain the denial of the ambulance system shortfall by failing to back the GPS units up with driver training in their use it would seem

[Paul in NZ]

This makes a lot of sense and partly supports my earlier post..

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/di...t-of-111-calls

[avgas]

I was going to read this thread. And thought fuck it. I have had a good run with Ambo's - and imagine I will have a good run with future service by the ambo's.

Aren't the rest of you moaners late for you interviews on Cambell live or Target?

[Nasty]

I was going to read this thread. And thought fuck it. I have had a good run with Ambo's - and imagine I will have a good run with future service by the ambo's.

Aren't the rest of you moaners late for you interviews on Cambell live or Target?

1. I have had good service from the ambo - when I am in Wellington and they can find me easy enough.
2. Get over yourself - and may you not suffer due to the systemic failures that are still happening.
3. With that attitude I think that you have been more lucky than anything else.

[avgas]

1. I have had good service from the ambo - when I am in Wellington and they can find me easy enough.
2. Get over yourself - and may you not suffer due to the systemic failures that are still happening.
3. With that attitude I think that you have been more lucky than anything else.

Your 1 contradicts 3.

[vifferman]

Now lets put all the good storys about ambos getting there on time and saving a life.

Well, I dunno whether my life needed saving, but they were blardy good when my wife phoned them when my heart was being spastic (lots of atrial fibrillation). The ambulance arrived within a few minutes, and while they were on their way, the person in the telephone kept my wife calm, got her to check my pulse, tell her what meds I was on, and give me some aspirin. When the ambulance turned up, the paramedics were efficient, reassuring, friendly and very professional.

[Mom]

When the ambulance turned up, the paramedics were efficient, reassuring, friendly and very professional.

I have had 2 ambo trips in the very recent past, my first one complete with a rendevous with a rapid response paramedic at Oteha Valley Road, I too can vouch for the care and reassurance. Infact the reassurance was the best bit, I thought I was going to die

That is all good though, we live urban, easy to find locations.

[kina]

i ride, i choose to ride, i choose not to live in the hospital grounds in case of emergency, traffic crashes happen, Illness and home accidents happen, everyone tries their best to help.
everything you do comes with an amount of risk, if you ride and fall off you may be injured or worse, that is not the fault of anyone else, you choose to ride..... If you live in a remote location, then there are certain risks attatched to that as well, weigh up the risk, if you ride /Live around the hospital then help is close at hand, if you ride /live in the back blocks then help is further away.

I would advise all to check their house number, urban or rural, people give little attention to this, and it can be challenging at times to say the least, to find an address, in the dark or poor visibility. Even in the middle of a town with local knowledge.

Just have a look around your neighbourhood at the poorly numbered properties, and you will see what I mean.
Be carefull, but enjoy

[kina]

\think if the ambo was stopped by the cops they'd understand the driving hours oversite,but not the St Johns (especially if the ambulance crashed)so he was forced to do driver change.I don't want to berate the service,just the way they go/went about the call .

This service was not St John, bro

[Nasty]

This service was not St John, bro

Thats right it was a taranaki DHB ambulance from my understanding. there was also a lot of political crap up there at the time, with the DHB wanting to get out of the direct provision of these services.

[MSTRS:Me]

This service was not St John, bro

Your point is...?
All services are subject to the same rules around driver hours. Nor does a driver have to have been driving. Just being on duty counts towards total hours allowed.