Friday, September 21, 2007

** UK businessman buys bikes for London medics

** UK service refuses to transport MS patient

UNITED KINGDOM NEWS

** Witnessing medics in action was the motivator for one businessman to buy two motorcycles for London EMS workers. That is the word from Visor Down (Motorcycle News/Tim Skilton/September 20) which said wealthy patron Roger Dudding purchased two Honda Pan Europeans for St. John Ambulance. Dudding made the contribution after seeing practitioners work at the city’s Remembrance Parade in 2005.

** The Great West Ambulance Service is taking heat for declining to transport a multiple scelrosis patient. The Gazette (Claire Marshall/September 20) said the incident, which occurred in Cam, played out with EMS brass saying the movement of Stephanie Roberts, 53, into a stair chair was too dangerous. Roberts, who hailed practitioners to transport her to a medical appointment at Gloucester Royal Hospital, was informed of the no-show just prior to her departure time. Both she and her husband said they are baffled by the justification for the turn down. Robert’s husband said the explanation is especially silly, given that he has moved his wife into a stair chair some 3,000 times without incident.