Tour of an Urgent Care Ambulance

Urgent Care Assistant Jess provides a guided tour of our new urgent care ambulances.

[@n3ilvincent870]

Ambulance men and women are heroes with out the cape where would we be without them Just love them all

[@Delboy0758]

I like the new handrails are usually struggle with the others

[@IdlegirlUk]

Loved this :) xxx

[@yehuditchayne]

Xsnsn 0:16

[@MVSLight]

Nice Ambulance design

[@shikderambulance]

Beautiful design

[@staffsemergresp]

Cool vehicle

[@hyperspaceexplorer5594]

Urgent care ambulance as in IFT/inter facility transfer ambulance? Like moving patients from one care facility to another?

[@davidandrews17]

Used for GP admissions, HCP admissions and routine hospital transfers. They are not used for emergency response.

[@JoeDurobot]

*You have CCTV inside ambulance in the UK? That's madness.*

[@johnpixie]

is it? while doing my training one of the medics told me of how they where attacked and having video saved them a lot of hassle. on the flip side if the medic fucks up and causes harm to the patient then it can be investigated. its not madness its safty.

[@paulsergeant9518]

Do these vehicles respond to red, amber2 and P1 back ups?

[@unit0033]

im guessing that would be a trust policy which would vary. In Eeast they back up cars, attend c1s and 09s. They also transfer non time crit pts and gp urgents etc

[@davidandrews17]

No these are not used for front line 999 response. They are only for routine hospital admissions, HCP admissions and non emergency hospital transfers not requiring any clinical intervention.

[@unit0033]

@@davidandrews17 Yup they are used as I stated. I should know! I work on them

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

very very strange layout. Doesn't seem very effective to me

[@JustAnOrdinarySimmer]

You do realise they are care ambulances? used mainly to pick up and drop off patients to hospital appointments. Emergency ambulances are quite a lot different.

[@MrKillerChiko]

@@JustAnOrdinarySimmer even then its a strange Layout, look at a german KTW, its the same thing but 1000 Times more effective.

[@wilfbm9067]

It's a non emergency vehicle

[@unit0033]

@@wilfbm9067 primarily but they do attend emergency pts in some areas

[@blackfalcon1324]

I will say, does it make sense that an ambulance isnt allowed to use their lights at above 10 mph?

[@findthebadger418]

It's not an emergency ambulance. It's used for non emergency transfers, known as NEPTS

[@itsweb1584]

if you watch the video fully it explains it

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

@@findthebadger418 still doesn't make much sense to me. We have a similar one in Germany as well: a BLS Transport Ambulance; They primarily run non-emergency patient transports, however they can be used both 1st first responder for an emergency call if the ALS Emergency Ambulance is quite far away, or a non-emergency call turns into an emergency situation as they arrive on scene, or during the transport. That's why every BLS Transport Ambulance has both lights and sirens, and we use them if necessary

[@CymruEmergencyResponder]

@@EnjoyFirefighting This isn't a BLS ambulance though. This is an ambulance used to take elderly/disabled patients to routine appointments etc or to hospital if a doctor says they need to go to hospital but it isn't an emergency.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

@@CymruEmergencyResponder that's exactly what would be equivalent to a BLS ambulance here. Different from the USA, where both ALS and BLS run emergency calls all the time, in Germany primarily ALS Ambulances run emergency calls and BLS Ambulances such patient transports which require medical surveillance or treatment during the ride, like e.g. some elderly going to the hospital or doctor's office or back home, interhospital transfers etc, but nothing which is labeled as an actual emergency right now. Exception are, as described above, 1st responder calls, covering the time until ALS unit arrives on scene

[@alexiszarraga7406]

Earth Ambulance Emergency

[@odinswarrior385]

In a emergency situation the time it takes to lower the ramp would decrease patient survival. Remind me to never have a medical emergency in the uk

[@cambs0181]

It's not an emergency vehicle. It's a non emergency transport.

[@Jonesykins]

I guess you must have skipped the title of the video, or even the first 10 seconds, where they literally explain it is an *Urgent Care* ambulance... Not an Emergency Ambulance.

[@lindenbeck]

To unsecure and to secure the ramp and stairs needs time and I don't get it how people can be saved if you have to unsecure the ramp and stairs. For me every seconds counts.

[@willking9763]

This isn’t an emergency ambulance

[@craigclaassen7346]

Despite the name the role is mostly just transportation.

[@davidandrews17]

It's an urgent care ambulance. A GP or HCP will have assessed the patient at home location. If they require hospital admission, but is not deemed life threatening or require clinical intervention, they can book an urgent response between 1-4 hours. These will often attend to free up an A&E vehicle.

[@stevennebrightefieldhe5215]

SHOPPER

[@ghafooromer7593]

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[@alexiszarraga7406]

Eather Doctor Hopital

[@unit0033]

youre not making sense

[@robloxfan4271]

Man would love her as my nurse (and girl friend)

[@Shookbanglol]

Creep

[@jakc11202]

Grow up

[@kevinjredmond1129]

Hello from Chicago, Cutie !

[@loulou-tk4rd]

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[@craigclaassen7346]

What a stupid name, calling a non urgent Patient Transport vehicle an Urgent Care Vehicle.

[@sebby324]

It’s one that can provide urgent care whilst transporting

[@craigclaassen7346]

@@sebby324 did you watch the video? This vehicle carries very little equipment. Only Urgent Care they can provide is defibrillation.

[@diamond4791]

PTS and urgent care ambulance is 2 different things. Urgent Care carry patients that have been seen by a GP or HCP to hospital if they are suffering from a chronic but non-life threatening condition, or need to see a specialist. PTS is booked by the patient to get picked up and dropped off at appointments at hospital.