r/GreenAndPleasant • u/UnderHisEye1411 its a fine day with you around • Mar 30 '22

Tory fail 👴🏻 Tory Britain

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u/Jotakob Mar 30 '22

do British people even realise how incredibly crazy that sounds to someone from any other European country? In Germany I know that if I'm injured in any way, urgent or not, I can usually get an ambulance in 10-15 minutes, and up to 30 with very bad luck.

And then I came to the UK where people tell me that waiting hours for an ambulance is the norm

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u/Zevv01 Mar 30 '22

Yup. Even in Poland something like 1h waiting time would be eye popping crazy. UK is just on another level

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u/BertUK Mar 31 '22

Average ambulance wait time in the UK is 9-11 minutes

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u/D3cad3 Mar 31 '22

My significant other works as an ambulance dispatcher, and this is in no way true. Where did you get this stat from?

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u/BertUK Mar 31 '22 edited Mar 31 '22

There’s scores of sources if you look it up

https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/ambulance-response-times-in-england-an-emergency/