At Raigmore hospital in Inverness there were 19 in a queue on either Monday or Tuesday morning. Ambulances from the Isle of Skye had to wait hours to be seen and that’s after a 3 hour journey just to get there and then there’s the trip home. Often they get lots of calls while they’re in and around Inverness too - all due to lack of staff/lack of beds in the hospital. It’s nuts.
I used to crew these transits when I first joined, they were just ending their service life. They had a rather powerful petrol 2.9 Ford scorpio engine and went like the clappers :-)
You're lucky. In Queensland Australia we used the Transit for patient transport or in country towns as an on-call vehicle. Ours were the 2.5 turbo diesel. Used as an emergency vehicle they were the most useless pieces of crap to have had the words "AMBULANCE" applied to them. The main emergency response ambulances then were the 351 cid (5.8L) petrol V8 F-250s and then the 7.3L turbo diesel F-250s and F-350s which I miss. The 6-cylinder Mercedes Sprinters aren't as much fun. We also had a Holden Commodore station wagon with the police specs and the 5.0L motor as a duty officer response unit. Now that was fun to drive on a priority job.
I remember these Ambulances, I was 8. Where we lived they moved to a more modern transit where the blue lights were integrated into all four corners of the roof.
Most of the public in the United Kingdom takes the National Health Service for granted. Yes it has its faults and is currently under incredible strain but it is amazing that since 1948 we can be transported by fully equipped ambulances costing over £150,000 and taken to hospital to be cared for by professionals. We pay nominal national insurance contribution payments for treatment sometimes costing thousands of pounds. If you was a United States citizen you would need private medical insurance, go in debt to pay the medical bill or have to be treated in a charity funded hospital. To the moaners in the U.K. don't complain about the N.H.S. but respect this unique organisation because it won't last forever.
Finally 1 person who appreciates the NHS like me...its not their fault they're under funded and stuff...its the government... hopefully it lasts forever. People with disabilities and health problems appreciate it more than the average person because they don't rely on it.,.. I'm disabled and i really appreciate the nhs for the help i get whenever i need it.... people who say bad things about it simply should get off it and get private health insurance like the USA and then they'll know what it means having thousands of pounds of medicine and even beds to use for FREE. All respects to Aneurin Bevan who founded it in 1948.... I'm so happy to have it... only if you could donate to the service i would definitely.
The NHS has many funding streams, NI is partially funded by the employee, partially by the employer. If you're a UK taxpayer you pay thousands toward the NHS annually, it's far from 'free'. Your nominal contributions are also supplemented by your employer, this is rarely mentioned. If you opt for private healthcare you're also taxed again for *not* using the NHS... The NHS is a UK national religion.
Can remeber joining St John ambulance as a 14yr old a year or 2"after this was made. One of my friend 's dad was an ambulance driver his uniform was just like this one from wht I remember different times to today!
@@angelacooper2661 In truth not much equipment has changed, defibrilation which came in wide mid 80`s was one of the biggest changes to see a marked improvement in patient survival. There are more drugs now but you would be suprised how its the basics that saves lives in reality. They were paramedics back then and highly trained, it just a long time for the UK to start using the term officially and to register them with a professional body like HCPC. Even in 80`s our ambulance staff were amoung the best trained in the world. Ambulance crews in London started using IV`s way back in the early 70`s, that is a suprise to many.
@@damian-795 Here in Australia Victoria was the first to introduce paramedics with the introduction of Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance officers (MICA) in about 1972ish. Thanks to sharing of training and skills between the UK and Australia over the decades we have world class paramedics here. I think the Brits are taking an interest in our full pack plasma infusion and field amputation procedures. Oddly enough our High Acuity Paramedic training comes from the pages of London HEMS. I recall when we had "Paramedics" which were ALS and us BLS ambulance officers. We pushed for morphine at AO level, and our Health Department said only paramedics could carry S8 drugs. Within 6 months we'd done an ALS module and were all "Paramedics", either Advanced Care or Intensive Care. I think when I started, we had the HP defibs, and probably a dozen drugs. Now we're all 12 lead trained, and even at Advanced Care level have some 60 drugs at our disposal. I'm sure the UK would be similar.
I occasionally do overtime shifts at small stations some 40km from home here in Australia. You start shift at 1900 hours, check car, log on then watch TV, go to bed, wake up at 0600 ready to log off at 0700. No turn of the wheel, and all on double time, or quad time when working a day or afternoon shift on a public holiday.
@@JoeStudd96 You are most likely right. I don't think the Hanlon's had opening skylights like that but my dad was on those at the time so I shall ask him.
I remember about Nigel breaking his leg falling down the stairs. What became of him and Richard? I wonder what they look like now and how old they are?
But as this call is getting a bit complicated and your answers don't fit my computer generated questions I will send you an ambulance anyway just to 'check you out ' even though you have a car and live 3 minutes from the hospital and it's not as if the ambulance service is really busy is it ?.
The producer of Stop Look Listen was the person who gave Chris his first break in televison, so he contunued to do the narrations on a minimum wage form many years after it made any financial sense for him to do so.
I know that Einstein, I worked on the service for long enough. A blue cylinder is Entonox and isn't administered as oxygen just because it's a 50/50 mix. My point is a black and white cylinder back then was oxygen, that is clearly a blue cylinder but they state it is oxygen. Was a tongue in cheek comment, it's like calling atrovent, adrenaline. Both drugs but you wouldn't administer them because they both start with 'A'
@@ianalton3095 Roger that Mr. Hawkins. I had no idea whether you were in the job or some kid aspiring to be an ambo. Then again, could've been the way I read it. Cheers
How time's have changed, now they'd have the fire service out to remove not only the front door but two feet of the wall either side of the door, but theyd have to wait for a team of structural engineers from the local authority, then of course the police would close the road completely for at least four days while they carried out a forensic investigation, this has resulted in the family moving into a Travel Lodge for the foreseeable future while little Johnny is recovering from his bruised left little toe.
Now the crews sit outside for a whole shift waiting to handover patients
At Raigmore hospital in Inverness there were 19 in a queue on either Monday or Tuesday morning. Ambulances from the Isle of Skye had to wait hours to be seen and that’s after a 3 hour journey just to get there and then there’s the trip home. Often they get lots of calls while they’re in and around Inverness too - all due to lack of staff/lack of beds in the hospital. It’s nuts.
I used to crew these transits when I first joined, they were just ending their service life. They had a rather powerful petrol 2.9 Ford scorpio engine and went like the clappers :-)
You're lucky. In Queensland Australia we used the Transit for patient transport or in country towns as an on-call vehicle. Ours were the 2.5 turbo diesel. Used as an emergency vehicle they were the most useless pieces of crap to have had the words "AMBULANCE" applied to them. The main emergency response ambulances then were the 351 cid (5.8L) petrol V8 F-250s and then the 7.3L turbo diesel F-250s and F-350s which I miss. The 6-cylinder Mercedes Sprinters aren't as much fun. We also had a Holden Commodore station wagon with the police specs and the 5.0L motor as a duty officer response unit. Now that was fun to drive on a priority job.
"Are you Ok, Richard ?" "Aye, I'm bloody champion !"
I was eighteen at the time, so too old for that programme, which I would have watched over ten years previously!
I remember these Ambulances, I was 8. Where we lived they moved to a more modern transit where the blue lights were integrated into all four corners of the roof.
This really brings back memories :-).
how slow and relaxed was that response, pass a note hahaha.
Most of the public in the United Kingdom takes the National Health Service for granted. Yes it has its faults and is currently under incredible strain but it is amazing that since 1948 we can be transported by fully equipped ambulances costing over £150,000 and taken to hospital to be cared for by professionals. We pay nominal national insurance contribution payments for treatment sometimes costing thousands of pounds. If you was a United States citizen you would need private medical insurance, go in debt to pay the medical bill or have to be treated in a charity funded hospital. To the moaners in the U.K. don't complain about the N.H.S. but respect this unique organisation because it won't last forever.
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Or Dutch.... We pay insurance too...
Finally 1 person who appreciates the NHS like me...its not their fault they're under funded and stuff...its the government... hopefully it lasts forever. People with disabilities and health problems appreciate it more than the average person because they don't rely on it.,.. I'm disabled and i really appreciate the nhs for the help i get whenever i need it.... people who say bad things about it simply should get off it and get private health insurance like the USA and then they'll know what it means having thousands of pounds of medicine and even beds to use for FREE. All respects to Aneurin Bevan who founded it in 1948.... I'm so happy to have it... only if you could donate to the service i would definitely.
@@jpht1964 you don't make sense...nhs is free so you don't have to pay (if you're not working)
The NHS has many funding streams, NI is partially funded by the employee, partially by the employer. If you're a UK taxpayer you pay thousands toward the NHS annually, it's far from 'free'. Your nominal contributions are also supplemented by your employer, this is rarely mentioned.
If you opt for private healthcare you're also taxed again for *not* using the NHS...
The NHS is a UK national religion.
I love old medical equipment
I like Jane's uniform, she looks quite snappy
At least I now know what blue lights and sirens are for - A very informative film indeed
Can remeber joining St John ambulance as a 14yr old a year or 2"after this was made. One of my friend 's dad was an ambulance driver his uniform was just like this one from wht I remember different times to today!
Fondly recall Stop Look Listen in first two years of infant school -)
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Bromsgrove Ambulance Station. I had many placement shifts here. Lovely station. Now it's a hub.
Wow, why the 10 haters on this vid. This is great to see!
Love the purring sound of the engine. It must be V6 petrol engine.
It's cool how ambulance design and how far equipment as developed to carry the advanced. Life serving there now have
No paramedics in those days. I was already an adult at the time the this footage, and now 52!
@@angelacooper2661 In truth not much equipment has changed, defibrilation which came in wide mid 80`s was one of the biggest changes to see a marked improvement in patient survival. There are more drugs now but you would be suprised how its the basics that saves lives in reality. They were paramedics back then and highly trained, it just a long time for the UK to start using the term officially and to register them with a professional body like HCPC. Even in 80`s our ambulance staff were amoung the best trained in the world. Ambulance crews in London started using IV`s way back in the early 70`s, that is a suprise to many.
I joined our ambulance as an honorary in 1988, then full time in 1998. The changes over the decades have been monumental, and it's still going!
@@damian-795 Here in Australia Victoria was the first to introduce paramedics with the introduction of Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance officers (MICA) in about 1972ish. Thanks to sharing of training and skills between the UK and Australia over the decades we have world class paramedics here. I think the Brits are taking an interest in our full pack plasma infusion and field amputation procedures. Oddly enough our High Acuity Paramedic training comes from the pages of London HEMS. I recall when we had "Paramedics" which were ALS and us BLS ambulance officers. We pushed for morphine at AO level, and our Health Department said only paramedics could carry S8 drugs. Within 6 months we'd done an ALS module and were all "Paramedics", either Advanced Care or Intensive Care. I think when I started, we had the HP defibs, and probably a dozen drugs. Now we're all 12 lead trained, and even at Advanced Care level have some 60 drugs at our disposal. I'm sure the UK would be similar.
Published on 28 Jun 2004
This is a good lesson of not playing at the top of the stairs
Bertie Bassett, Mr. Snow and Mickey Mouse in the Hospital 9:00 - 9:23
1989 this was made - the original ''Ambulance'' Stop Look Listen was 1981
I remember that the original Stop Look and Listen in 1981 - a time when I was eleven and moved from junior to senior school!
Ooh mum had enough time on her hands to go change out of those Scholl sandals that about every woman had a pair of.
Nice MK3 Transit
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I was really enjoying this video until I saw the Mr Bean car and now I’m dying laughing 😂
They can relax until they are needed????? Bahahahahahaha just like now then.........
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Whilst reading the basic training manual.
Only difference is that they're at an ambulance station and not in a bay at Mcdonalds 😂
Definitely not just like now! I don't see station from the moment I start shift until the moment I finish.
I occasionally do overtime shifts at small stations some 40km from home here in Australia. You start shift at 1900 hours, check car, log on then watch TV, go to bed, wake up at 0600 ready to log off at 0700. No turn of the wheel, and all on double time, or quad time when working a day or afternoon shift on a public holiday.
Having a tie, skirt and heels as your work dress is crazy to me.
The woman is dressed like a Flight attendant and and the man is dressed like a pilot
I wonder where the two ambulance people are now? retired? They seem like good people.
The man in the video is my father. He retired 9 years ago. Fit, healthy and very happy :-)
Remember this at school, but not with that theme tune, this was the 1960’s, interesting how times moved on with those ambulances and uniforms.
3:31 might be slickest editing I've ever seen.
I mean, seriously just watch the roof to interior shot...
Bloody hell!
It's not edited, they've just stuck the camera out the open skylight.
@@JoeStudd96 You are most likely right.
I don't think the Hanlon's had opening skylights like that but my dad was on those at the time so I shall ask him.
@@musmodtos If it didn't open, maybe they just removed it completely for the shoot?
wow how things have changed ! yikes ...
THERE'S RICHARD BUCKETS LIGHT BLUE ROVER IN FRONT OF THEM MIND THIS AMBULANCE DEAR
Madness
Sister pushed him
We still have some off the equipment today ambulance carries more equipment now off days I study sciences and medicine
Skirts and ties don't belong on the 🚑 skirts and ties aren't very practical or durable
@@Alto-le1hn nope this is what 80s emergency ambulance crews wore and it was not very practical or durable that's why it changed
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There is another episode called Ambulance. It has this boy Nigel who broke his leg when he fell down the stairs
Hope he's ok
I remember about Nigel breaking his leg falling down the stairs. What became of him and Richard? I wonder what they look like now and how old they are?
Could this be a case of child neglect?
Nurses don't wear hats no longer due to infection control
HE,S FALLEN DOWN STAIRS, YEAH! LIKELY STORY PUSHED BY MOTHER MORE LIKE😢
@7:02 - LOL ! A bloody Robin Reliant outpacing an emergency ambulance and a Ford Sierra ? I think not !
Why wouldn’t they just lift the stretcher after they got out of the truck? And where are the backboards
I was 1 yrs old then lol
My local hospital 😂
Don't know what year this is from but why didn't they use a back board?
Cos the kid probably wasn't really injured, I bet this was mocked-up.
@@mistofoles Definitely mocked up. We saw both ends of the original phone call!
Don't forget your hi viz
Failed to buckle safety belts on stretcher.
This lady is dialling 111 on the telephone, she's been unwell for several days, but nothing serious.
But as this call is getting a bit complicated and your answers don't fit my computer generated questions I will send you an ambulance anyway just to 'check you out ' even though you have a car and live 3 minutes from the hospital and it's not as if the ambulance service is really busy is it ?.
Isn't 111 the New Zealand emergency number?
Not to sound callous, but I bet you anything that kid wasn't really injured.
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He forgot to check the petrol tank, siren and tyre pressure.
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who is the narrator in this episode? Sounds familiar.
Here's a clue: he'll allow you to phone a friend
+Barbara Cortina I actually noticed that Chris Tarrant was the narrator in the opening credits after having another look at the video 😊
The producer of Stop Look Listen was the person who gave Chris his first break in televison, so he contunued to do the narrations on a minimum wage form many years after it made any financial sense for him to do so.
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the oxygen is entonox lol
Entonox is 50% Nitrous Oxide. It has 50% oxygen.
I know that Einstein, I worked on the service for long enough. A blue cylinder is Entonox and isn't administered as oxygen just because it's a 50/50 mix. My point is a black and white cylinder back then was oxygen, that is clearly a blue cylinder but they state it is oxygen. Was a tongue in cheek comment, it's like calling atrovent, adrenaline. Both drugs but you wouldn't administer them because they both start with 'A'
@@ianalton3095 Roger that Mr. Hawkins. I had no idea whether you were in the job or some kid aspiring to be an ambo. Then again, could've been the way I read it. Cheers
@4:22 - "He's fallen down the stairs." No shit.
Ahg
Lady in a skirt? Wow
How time's have changed, now they'd have the fire service out to remove not only the front door but two feet of the wall either side of the door, but theyd have to wait for a team of structural engineers from the local authority, then of course the police would close the road completely for at least four days while they carried out a forensic investigation, this has resulted in the family moving into a Travel Lodge for the foreseeable future while little Johnny is recovering from his bruised left little toe.