Why Military Personnel Are Learning To Drive Ambulances | Forces TV

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Members of the Armed Forces are training to drive ambulances as part of a move to bolster the emergency services amid the coronavirus outbreak. A force of 80 personnel, from all three services, are working alongside the South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) to complete the training in just three days.
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[@paulclarke7583]

Awesome to see all of our emergency services and armed forces getting stuck in to help out our great nation. Thank you all

[@NippyMoto]

There's a bunch of F1 drivers sitting around doing nothing, maybe get a few of them to drive. Ambulances will never have gone faster 😉

[@sotosl5772]

Fast is not the point... SAFE and fast is the point...

[@Andyb2379]

Thank you to all our services working tirelessly to keep us all safe

[@thoughtful_criticiser]

As a qualified NHS EMT who is sat at home not wanted, as the military are free! This is just great!

[@damian-795]

You must be very wanted , is it because you are self insolating ?

[@The-RA-Guy]

At times of need we all step up. But how can ANYONE seriously give this a thumbs down?

[@sonampaldensherpa]

Clive McIntyre they are labour supporters. 😂

[@uwandaroberts9897]

Maybe they do not share the same view as you about Covid.

[@kpopfan674]

@@sonampaldensherpa Nah, they're just "conspiracy theorists" who have been proven right

[@stephenthomson2196]

forces seriously need a massive pay rise under paid and over extended

[@sausag3onthefloor]

The pay can be good but it relies on squaddies making good life decisions...

[@paxundpeace9970]

NHS is underpaid junior doctors in the UK making less then half of junior doctors in Germany.

[@LostContentScar]

Good work, see you out there!

[@BritishRail60062]

Respect to the Military and the Emergency Services.

[@caillumoconnor418]

Keep going guys thank you very much 😊

[@ianjacques-keen5945]

I’m sorry but I believe the service personnel should remain in their military uniforms as this would give us the appearance of Cimic : Civil Military cooperation that we train for & are taught 🤔🤓🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@simonhool3073]

Ian Jacques - Keen With the vast majority of people staying inside, people wouldn’t see and its publicised everywhere.

[@kimjonglongdong3158]

I agree, but the sad truth is that there are people out there who would refuse to be treated by military personal, just as there are people who would refuse treatment by homosexual people, non-white people Etc. Avoiding being a uniform is a small sacrifice when you consider the headache of people refusing treatment because of someone clothes.

[@meme4one]

Would be a nice idea but 1. All the patients would be constantly asking about it and distracting from critical care and 2. Military uniforms aren't designed to be sterilised daily.

[@jamesj9288]

That distracts from the care being given. This isn’t the time to be showing off a uniform, it’s about giving the best care possible. One team, one uniform.

[@amartyaroy3754]

Tell that to the people in Northern Ireland, the divide is still there

[@danielwhyatt3278]

This’s absolutely brilliant.

[@BasedSwag420yolo]

1:20 thats a gopping ginger tash well done!

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

'Gopping?!' You do know that KZbin is an international platform? Keep your private squaddie language for your squaddie mates.

[@rodgernkatefoley9027]

This is the most British thing I've ever read

[@gazof-the-north5708]

Bravo!

[@doctorabacteria]

This is proving how much we all need a public NHS!

[@paxundpeace9970]

Of course, but conservative party had risen the NHS and DHSC Health department budget on average 1.5 percent per year over the last 10 years, with Labour in charge the NHS DHSC budget got 4.5% rise on average per year.

[@kilo5659]

The NHS quality of care is poor

[@farscape3100]

just hope the government keeps up this funding after all of this

[@stuartbrookes7785]

Look forward to working with these men and women in SWAST also. As an aside, if there's anyone who doesn't need to clap us, it's the military!

[@power001able]

Decent wage would help!

[@mainmarine3554]

Well done guys 👏👏👏🇬🇧

[@MajorRoadAhead]

Does anyone know why Forces TV is no longer on Freeview TV. Does it depend what regional area that you live in?

[@RegUnsworth]

Robin Seward Ch 96 still got it in Wiltshire.

[@MajorRoadAhead]

@@RegUnsworth Thanks for your reply.

[@sjchundreddays]

Hero’s all

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

Our NHS needs more organisation more efficiency, more support from the pharmaceutical industry, more use of big data and to be funded more wisely.

[@paxundpeace9970]

Yeah Germany spend nearly 3 times as much for Healthcare then the UK.

[@paxundpeace9970]

The NHS is lacking £200,000,000,000 just over the last ten years.

[@63phillip]

If the Ambulances did not have to wait so long at the hospitals we would have enough ambulances. We need more doctors and nurses to stop the backlog. More drivers would just mean more Ambulances cuing outside the hospitals.

[@johnbarton2686]

Hope all these new ambulance personnel are working all of the country not just London areas.

[@RJM1011]

They are !

[@sebby324]

When I read the title I instantly knew it was coronavirus

[@JohnsonTheSecond]

omg wow youre so smart literally nobody else made that connection!!!

[@paxundpeace9970]

Would better in the first place to spend the money on NHS then on military

[@mweston25]

pax und peace the military often work in emergency response, remember when all the firefighters went on strike, any time there is flooding, providing the security for the olympics, the military adapts to what ever it needs to be. Taking funding from that and putting it in just one places won’t work. What happens next time there is a natural disaster they won’t send nurses in.

[@thecommentssquads2804]

drive it like u stole it

[@CymruEmergencyResponder]

Definitely not thanks.

[@jarrythskeen8336]

⚕️👍🏼 stay safe

[@johnbratley6926]

Meanwhile the creeping privatisation of the ambulance service goes on. In London during the week 25% of coverage is provided by St John's and others, that goes up to 35% at the weekend. The St John's crews are full time paid employees not volunteers. Their vehicles are fairly modern and almost the same spec as front line ambulances. However the crews are paid less than NHS staff and because St John charge a lot more than it costs for an NHS vehicle and crew it's a good little earner. NHS ambulance services have been refused increases in staff and vehicles and ORDERED to use private provision even though it's more costly. This is happening countrywide. On Merseyside west midlands ambulance service won the contract to provide non emergency ambulance cover, however they deliberately tendered low and then threatened to void the contract because it wasn't profitable enough. North west ambulance service were over a barrel and had to cough up funds they could ill afford.

[@freshprince8484]

So they drive tanks but need training to drive a van🤔

[@jameswhite8612]

Ideally without hitting anything as hitting something as the tank isnt exactly a big deal but hitting somesomething with an ambulance could damage it

[@freshprince8484]

@@jameswhite8612 The army are not fools so why treat them like it. Im sure they have cars themselves and understand hitting things could damage the vehicle, they're not brain dead!!

[@CymruEmergencyResponder]

freshprince 84 Emergency response driving is a difficult thing, and vastly different to any other type of driving.

[@danh3017]

For a start youll probably find SCAS vehicle insurance demands that if a vehicle is to be driven under emergency conditions then the driver must be adequately trained and tested to do so, there are many exemptions an driver of an emergency response vehicle can claim and many of them arent used often but when they are can be incredibly dangerous.

[@adamk8376]

Welcome to the fold, guys/gals. -A USA Paramedic

[@vladimir-xq7qs]

The public will know who they are by their co-responder uniforms.

[@andrasszabo4019]

is the problem that bad? :-o

[@conorlanders8401]

not yet, most of this is to make capacity incase its needed

[@andrasszabo4019]

Clever move. Troubled times but its also a time to shine. Hope everything will go well. God bless your efforts!

[@zee4125]

This doesn't make sense to me. They're training non-medical military personnel how to drive ambulances, but not third year university student paramedics how to drive ambulances?!

[@lmaoroflcopter]

Paramedics don't generally drive ambulances. Drivers do. Those third year paramedics would be better used in the back of the ambulance.

[@CymruEmergencyResponder]

Console Paramedics do drive ambulances. We take it in turns. I attend one job, then drive the next, then attend etc etc...

[@lmaoroflcopter]

@@CymruEmergencyResponder interesting. I've heard of technicians driving but not doubling up on actual paramedics.

[@CymruEmergencyResponder]

Console everyone in the ambulance service that works on emergency ambulances drives.

[@lmaoroflcopter]

@@CymruEmergencyResponder interesting my neighbour in the SW is an emergency care assistant. In his words, he drives it, they work it but hey ho, I consider myself corrected. The OP is right, why aren't they training the 3rd year paramedics to drive in that case, opting to train a royal signals communicator instead?

[@mikepaz4870]

There used to be a highly trained , combat experienced Helo Pilot , who could easily transition to another platform in a Medevac role. Sadly his dominating wife has been putting high doses of Estrogen in his Tea and Latte’s , and he abandoned the country and her military

[@patkelly6349]

What about the seatbelts fellas

[@johnfitzpatrick2469]

Left right and back.

[@MrJoe8K]

Hmmm, Britts putting there military in civilian uniforms to blend in... no nothing to worry about here.

[@Do.not.judge.]

Tell me!! Why wasn't the army stationed on the borders to stop imigrants? considering they always get full pay. I have been asking for this a while ago@

[@youknowhoitiz7313]

NEWS FLASH: I WAS SENT TO AND CERTIFIED EVOC (EMERGENCY VEHICLE OPERATOR COURSE) IN 1990 WHILE SERVING IN THE US NAVY AS HOSPITAL CORPSMAN!!!!! THIS ISN'T NEW!!!!!! HM/USN/RET

[@1chish]

Stop shouting Pal. And yes we knew some Yank would be in here gobbing off and crapping on the UK's methods. Well things have changed since 1990, we have different H & S rules here and we have a different health system. For example our ambulance service is free at the point of use. Unlike the USA.

[@karmanyngje4907]

We did this when they were on strike in the 80s, Operation Orderly.

[@infrared567]

Loudmouth American. Nothing changes. Sure it was still the same in 1990.