Ambulance Services

In the ambulance service there are many different roles that are crucial to maximising the officiency of their service, the ambulance drivers, the person that is relaying information to the ambulance staff when they receive a call, the staff that monitor/track an ambulance's position through GPS,  and the local staff, that are based at the prime location in a town/city.

The impact on my area from the advances in technology has helped to decide where to send a crew from, that would mean drivers getting to their destinations quickly and efficiently, and making sure that the patient has a safe and quick journey to the nearest hospital.  

The impact on the London ambulance services has been huge, as they are now able to cover a larger area with more ambulances and effectively, help more people by placing these ambulance stations in cleverly decided locations as to increase their overall efficientcy.

Some people object to the introduction of this new technology because it now means that they now, may, need to employ less people, they would in hand need to change the way they fund the ambulance service, as all this new and 'fancy' technology costs a lot more, and because they are introducing this new technology, people now need to be more extensively trained in an area that is nothing to do with saving lives, as such.

One aspect of this, that is worrying to think of, is that a strong powercut or targeted attack on the HQ's, would render most of the ambulances and equipment useless. 

The advantages of this introduction, would be that it now increases ambulances response times and therefore increasing the ammount of lives they save each year, so its not all bad when you look at it from that perspective.