Ambulances - 5 people - 8000 calls in a year

They should be cut off. Tough if they have a real emergency.

Might be Devil Worshippers who have installed their phone upside down?

  Either that or ur Munchausen Types

hopefully call recognition can help them, but there were always
folk calling up ambulances for next to no need  i guess its a cry for attention.

ambulance staff too caring

More likely ambulance staff terrified of litigation lawyers.

Absolutely correct treetop, my mate was a paramedic at King's College Hospital for 7 years and she loved the job but had to leave as every single thing she did was under the utmost scrutiny from 'the management' and they made her life hell. It wasn't even that well paid, I think she was on about £30K which after paying the bills it didn't leave much for anything else living in London.

ambulance staff insured aint they?

there are way too many ambulance chasers but i dont think thats anything to do
with the excess calls being made here

... think i saw a programme on tv about these people that call all the time, mostly mentally unstable, the ambulance service

know straight away its 99% false alarm but they have to attend.

Just make it 0898. At least when they talk dirty to the staff, they'll get what they paid for.

akabula
They should be cut off. Tough if they have a real emergency.

Their marriage equipment?

Sadly the Tip of the Iceberg many mentally Ill and sick Old people living alone in Big Cities any voice can be a comfort
when you have no one ,Lot of the staff at the centers know the callers well , on most occasions an ambulance will not be sent.

just like almost everything in this country, the health system is f******d

"Frequent callers" are classed as those who call at least five times in a month, or at least 12 times in three months, and they cost the health service almost £19m a year.

wow.

actually, you know what, the systems aren't f***d, the people are f****d.

Ambulances actually sent to these five, is average in the region of one per day.

The true situation will be much worse than this, as if you could extrapolate the number of genuine calls from the total of calls,
including these worst offenders, there will be very many more, making up the remainder of multiple offenders!