Mossend District General Hospital, 1:76 scale
A snapshot of a very busy day at NHS Lanarkside’s Mossend District General Hospital, Belshotmuir. A visiting restored MKii Ford Transit Ambulance, preserved by a private individual and enthusiast, adds to the colourful mix of Emergency Service vehicles around the Emergency Department annex.
In the road outside the Dept are 3 Police vehicles, a Police Scotland (PolScot) Ford Transit cell Van followed by LJ66EUU, an electric powered BMW i3 Paramedic Response Unit, based at Scottish Ambulance Service, Glasgow Central - Springburn Station, Laverockhall Street (My old Station in reality). Passing in the other direction are 2 PolScot Roads Policing Unit (RPU or “Traffic Cops”) cars, an Audi and BMW.
A patient on crutches can be seen making his way towards a taxi in all over advertising for Real Radio, which waits at the Taxi Stand.
By the Portakabin, used as a crew room/rest area for SAS, PolScot and others) a SAS Driver Training Unit (DTU) is parked, the trainees must be nearing the end of their course as a DTU parked at Hospital suggests the new starts are on hospital familiarisation visits, ensuring they can find their way to local Emergency Depts from day one.
Pulling into the Hospital is an Urgent Tier (now outdated style), crewed by a Technician and an Ambulance Care Assistant (ACA) from the Patient Transport Service (PTS) with emergency response driver training, these resources convey patients GP’s deem “Urgent” to be admitted, typically within 4 hours maximum often bypassing A&E and being admitted directly to a ward or assessment unit. As both crew can drive under emergency conditions, the Technician has airway management and manual defibrillation skills, the ACA has first aid and Basic Life Support/AED skills, Urgent Tier ambulances can be used as a first response to Immediately Life Threatening calls, but must be backed up by a full A&E double crewed resource. They may also carry out Inter-Hospital Transfers.
Parked to the left of the Acute Assessment Unit doors, without Battenberg markings or blue lights, is a PTS Ambulance, crewed by two ACA’s. Experts at safe Manual Handling, the non-emergency branch of the service are responsible for planned admissions, discharges, non-urgent transfers and repatriations, day hospital and outpatient clinics and all manner of other work. Every PTS vehicle carries an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), crews are trained in its use, first aid and Basic Life Support, safely extricating patients and returning them home and are experts at communication - given the often long journeys, broad range of patients and on some duties, regular patients, they have to be comfortable talking for hours. In days gone by you would have to become an ACA before joining A&E and training as a Technician, then applying to train as a Paramedic.
To the right of AAU’s doors and to the left of the Main Entrance to A&E is another Urgent Tier, dropping off a patient to AAU, bypassing and saving a space in A&E.
The other vehicles seen are Mercedes Benz Sprinter, box body Emergency Ambulances.
In reality this is a diorama using Kingsway Models 1:76 scale kit of the equally fictional Holby Emergency Department from BBC shows Casualty and Holby City. The models are a mix of 1:76 and 1:64 scale from varying manufactures and include a number of Code 3 adaptions, my own work, except for the PolScot Transit which is Code 3 and bought online.
Mossend District General Hospital, 1:76 scale
A snapshot of a very busy day at NHS Lanarkside’s Mossend District General Hospital, Belshotmuir. A visiting restored MKii Ford Transit Ambulance, preserved by a private individual and enthusiast, adds to the colourful mix of Emergency Service vehicles around the Emergency Department annex.
In the road outside the Dept are 3 Police vehicles, a Police Scotland (PolScot) Ford Transit cell Van followed by LJ66EUU, an electric powered BMW i3 Paramedic Response Unit, based at Scottish Ambulance Service, Glasgow Central - Springburn Station, Laverockhall Street (My old Station in reality). Passing in the other direction are 2 PolScot Roads Policing Unit (RPU or “Traffic Cops”) cars, an Audi and BMW.
A patient on crutches can be seen making his way towards a taxi in all over advertising for Real Radio, which waits at the Taxi Stand.
By the Portakabin, used as a crew room/rest area for SAS, PolScot and others) a SAS Driver Training Unit (DTU) is parked, the trainees must be nearing the end of their course as a DTU parked at Hospital suggests the new starts are on hospital familiarisation visits, ensuring they can find their way to local Emergency Depts from day one.
Pulling into the Hospital is an Urgent Tier (now outdated style), crewed by a Technician and an Ambulance Care Assistant (ACA) from the Patient Transport Service (PTS) with emergency response driver training, these resources convey patients GP’s deem “Urgent” to be admitted, typically within 4 hours maximum often bypassing A&E and being admitted directly to a ward or assessment unit. As both crew can drive under emergency conditions, the Technician has airway management and manual defibrillation skills, the ACA has first aid and Basic Life Support/AED skills, Urgent Tier ambulances can be used as a first response to Immediately Life Threatening calls, but must be backed up by a full A&E double crewed resource. They may also carry out Inter-Hospital Transfers.
Parked to the left of the Acute Assessment Unit doors, without Battenberg markings or blue lights, is a PTS Ambulance, crewed by two ACA’s. Experts at safe Manual Handling, the non-emergency branch of the service are responsible for planned admissions, discharges, non-urgent transfers and repatriations, day hospital and outpatient clinics and all manner of other work. Every PTS vehicle carries an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), crews are trained in its use, first aid and Basic Life Support, safely extricating patients and returning them home and are experts at communication - given the often long journeys, broad range of patients and on some duties, regular patients, they have to be comfortable talking for hours. In days gone by you would have to become an ACA before joining A&E and training as a Technician, then applying to train as a Paramedic.
To the right of AAU’s doors and to the left of the Main Entrance to A&E is another Urgent Tier, dropping off a patient to AAU, bypassing and saving a space in A&E.
The other vehicles seen are Mercedes Benz Sprinter, box body Emergency Ambulances.
In reality this is a diorama using Kingsway Models 1:76 scale kit of the equally fictional Holby Emergency Department from BBC shows Casualty and Holby City. The models are a mix of 1:76 and 1:64 scale from varying manufactures and include a number of Code 3 adaptions, my own work, except for the PolScot Transit which is Code 3 and bought online.