A damning inside report leaked to the Every day Report exhibits 5,500 sufferers each week are ready longer than they need to for an ambulance.
The report additionally shockingly states nobody appeared involved that “sufferers have been struggling pointless misery, hurt and dying ”.
The interior Scottish Ambulance Service research reported on progress of the Brief Life Working Group, which was set as much as deal with ready occasions.
It comes simply months after the Every day Report informed of elevated ready occasions for ambulances and highlighted the fears of unions that lives could be misplaced.
We informed of lengthy delays as ambulances queued up at accident and emergency departments for hours.
The Scottish Authorities admitted it was not adequate and referred to as within the Military to supply back-up and gave a further £20million to assist ease the issue.
However the report by Dr Mike Bell, technique implementation and high quality enchancment supervisor for the SAS, wrote “no progress was made in 12 months” from November 2020 to November 2021.
He acknowledged: “Nobody appeared involved that sufferers have been struggling pointless misery and hurt and avoidable dying or that frontline employees had missed meal breaks and fixed shift over-runs.”
Greater than 70,000 much less critical “yellow class” sufferers within the yr waited greater than an hour for an ambulance.
One of many goals of the working group was no “yellow” affected person would wait greater than 90 minutes.
However the report revealed: “This has not been met so the goal has been modified to no affected person ought to wait greater than 5 hours.
"Does this drive enchancment or simply return a smaller quantity that appears extra acceptable?”
Scottish Secretary of commerce union Unite Pat Rafferty stated the findings have been “staggering and jaw dropping”.
He stated: “It confirms the horror tales our members on the Scottish Ambulance Service have been telling us for a while.
“Critically, the report highlights that system decline began in 2017 and the disaster within the ambulance service predates Covid.
"Every little thing we now have been warning about by way of decrease availability of ambulances, longer response occasions, poor tradition, failure of management, and employees pressures is immediately resulting in the lack of lives.
“It's a catalogue of dysfunctionality.
“There have to be a full unbiased investigation into the Scottish Ambulance Service as a result of the system is damaged.“
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