Category: Ambulance

You’d be surprised why some people dial 999 – or maybe not!

by paddytm

I was reading today about a woman in England who has been jailed for two years for making 672 hoax calls to the ambulance service over a year. This comes a few months after another woman was jailed for a year after spending 59 hours on the ‘phone making false claims about her health to … Continue reading You’d be surprised why some people dial 999 – or maybe not!

The health service isn’t helped by people who routinely abuse it.

by paddytm

We have lots of problem in our health service and hear about them often enough. Still, there are many people alive today – me being one – because of the excellence of the staff employed by the HSE. We don’t hear enough about them/us! Nor do we hear enough about some other problems in the … Continue reading The health service isn’t helped by people who routinely abuse it.