Demand

Back on nights this weekend and Saturday night was busy across the patch with road traffic collisions and the more normal incidents.
The sunny weather has bought people out and also the start of the school holidays has seen more visitors around. This increase in the "population" adds to the workload of the ambulance service, hospitals and out of hours service. To cope with this particularly over the Easter period  we look at previous data for call volumes and demand this is mapped out and extra resources are put in place at peak times and key locations.
I also attended a planning meeting for a major incident exercise at a local venue. It was a really productive meeting and lots of good ideas for the scenario. More details on this as it develops.

I talked about the changes to the way newly qualified paramedics will be working, along side this change is the trust rota review. The trust have employed a company to look at our demand and match our resourcing to it. This change has to be delivered within the current financial envelope so  will involve changes to rotas. Since the beginning all three stations in our sector have been looking at the options for rotas and thanks to the hard work of the staff representatives staff are almost ready to vote on which rotas they are in favour of.

Well off to bed now , hopefully up in time to enjoy some of this lovely weather.

Enjoy what ever you are doing and stay safe