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UK Ambulance Services are not classed as Emergency Services

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UK Ambulance Services are not classed as Emergency Services


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Do the general public know that the UK Ambulance Service is not an emergency service? Actually it is classed as an 'essential service'.This means it is in the same catagory as the gas, electricity and water boards yet they still retain the 999 status and drive under blue light conditions. Calls for an ambulance are going up but the amount of ambulances on the road are going down due to cuts in funding. It is about time the government classed the service as an emergency service and gave them the same funding as the fire and police! The Ambulance Service has been underfunded for to long now and this needs addressing! A modern day Ambulance Service needs more highly trained Paramedics along with more ambulances and less cars! Ambulance staff have to deal with a vast range of emergencies from medical emergencies to trauma. These professionals are there for people at their most vulnerable! The current system isn't working and hasn't for sometime! Patients should come first!

I saw the same petition a good few years ago. It was a myth then, and it still is. For some strange reason people believed that because the Fire & Police Services come under the Home Office and the Ambulance Service comes under the NHS, they are classified differently. They are not.

"Emergency services in the United Kingdom - Statistics & Facts

Published by Daniel Clark, Aug 16, 2019

The emergency services in the United Kingdom consist of three main organizations, the Police Service, the Fire Service and the Emergency Medical Services. While the Police and Fire services are overseen by the Home Office, the Department of Health is responsible for the National Health Service, and by extension the Emergency Medical Services. In terms of officer numbers, the largest police force in the United Kingdom is the Metropolitan Police Force, responsible for policing Greater London. The Scottish Fire Brigade is the largest fire service in the UK with just under 6.5 thousand firefighters as of 2018.

Like many publicly-funded institutions in the United Kingdom, the emergency services have had to cope with years of budget cuts in the wake of austerity policies pursued by British governments since 2010. Between 2009/10 and 2013/14, for example, the Police Service expenditure for the UK fell from 19.3 billion to 16.35 billion British pounds. Fire services expenditure also declined during this period, experiencing a net decrease of 30 million British pounds between 2009/10 and 2017/18.

With less funding available the Police and Fire Services inevitably had to reduce their staffing levels. In 2010, for example, there were over 143 thousand police officers in England and Wales, compared with just over 122 thousand eight years later in 2018. The number of fire and rescue workers in England decreased by approximately 10 thousand people during the same time period. One of the likely factors behind a steep rise in crime in England and Wales recorded between 2013/14 and 2017/18 were underfunded police forces having to do more with less.

Unlike the police and fire services, the number of ambulance staff in England has actually increased since 2010, reaching a peak of over 20 thousand qualified staff in 2018. Nevertheless, ambulances in the United Kingdom have also had to contend with rising demand for their services, with the number of calls to ambulance services increasing by almost 1.3 million between 2011/12 and 2015/16.

This text provides general information. Statista assumes no liability for the information given being complete or correct. Due to varying update cycles, statistics can display more up-to-date data than referenced in the text."

Source:https://www.statista.com/topics/5102...ces-in-the-uk/

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I saw the same petition a good few years ago. It was a myth then, and it still is. For some strange reason people believed that because the Fire & Police Services come under the Home Office and the Ambulance Service comes under the NHS, they are classified differently. They are not.

"Emergency services in the United Kingdom - Statistics & Facts

Published by Daniel Clark, Aug 16, 2019

The emergency services in the United Kingdom consist of three main organizations, the Police Service, the Fire Service and the Emergency Medical Services. While the Police and Fire services are overseen by the Home Office, the Department of Health is responsible for the National Health Service, and by extension the Emergency Medical Services. In terms of officer numbers, the largest police force in the United Kingdom is the Metropolitan Police Force, responsible for policing Greater London. The Scottish Fire Brigade is the largest fire service in the UK with just under 6.5 thousand firefighters as of 2018.

Like many publicly-funded institutions in the United Kingdom, the emergency services have had to cope with years of budget cuts in the wake of austerity policies pursued by British governments since 2010. Between 2009/10 and 2013/14, for example, the Police Service expenditure for the UK fell from 19.3 billion to 16.35 billion British pounds. Fire services expenditure also declined during this period, experiencing a net decrease of 30 million British pounds between 2009/10 and 2017/18.

With less funding available the Police and Fire Services inevitably had to reduce their staffing levels. In 2010, for example, there were over 143 thousand police officers in England and Wales, compared with just over 122 thousand eight years later in 2018. The number of fire and rescue workers in England decreased by approximately 10 thousand people during the same time period. One of the likely factors behind a steep rise in crime in England and Wales recorded between 2013/14 and 2017/18 were underfunded police forces having to do more with less.

Unlike the police and fire services, the number of ambulance staff in England has actually increased since 2010, reaching a peak of over 20 thousand qualified staff in 2018. Nevertheless, ambulances in the United Kingdom have also had to contend with rising demand for their services, with the number of calls to ambulance services increasing by almost 1.3 million between 2011/12 and 2015/16.

This text provides general information. Statista assumes no liability for the information given being complete or correct. Due to varying update cycles, statistics can display more up-to-date data than referenced in the text."

Source:https://www.statista.com/topics/5102...ces-in-the-uk/

Hi,
Interesting information - thanks.

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