🚨 Oops! The only air ambulance serving 3,500 square miles of the East Midlands has been grounded since Friday night after staff failed to submit paperwork for its controlled drug licence:
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Complex as they couldn’t supply doctors with their stock. Doctors could theoretically obtain supplies and hold them, but creates governance and ops issues
Not the only air ambulance in the area. It is not unusual for The Air Ambulance Association (TAAS) and Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) to cross cover patches, so there still will be a service available depending on tasking needs
Many may not realise that our air ambulance services (along with hospices & RNLI) are charities and funded in the main by donations. They likely could do with more help w admin tasks to enable the doctors & paramedics to get on w saving lives!
Can't imagine they have any more than bare minimum of staff given that they are a charity reliant on donations so it will only take one person being sick for something like this to occur. Maybe use your platform to raise funding awareness & donations?
Isn’t the answer to this to get the paperwork submitted and for the recipient (of the paperwork) to expedite what needs to be done to get the service running again.
Yes, but the Home Office want renewal applications submitted (it’s online now) within a timescale that they can manage. It’s not difficult with a dedicated person, a database of sites and expiry dates, and a reminder system.
The answer is to not give a stuff about the law and sort it Monday! If you already have the CDs it makes zero difference if they are in the air or at the base. You'd be a shady judge not to admonish a case.
There must be more to the story than we know! I assume someone refused to resupply?
Yes, a cockup, if true. However, given that East Midlands Air Ambulance is a charity (ludicrously, like all other air ambulances in England), perhaps try to be more sympathetic, instead of putting the boot in with such relish.
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There must be more to the story than we know! I assume someone refused to resupply?
(Flashback Saturday morning CD orders... Ugh)
...dunno if that's ever been fixed.
But no hospital seemed to actually have a process. Yet every hospital transferred patients...
Why are our systems so slow that this cannot be sorted the same day?
Controlled drugs legislation is important, yet this seems to have a blindingly obvious solution.