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Care assistants walking to work usually walk on the pavement but I suddenly noticed the camera had slipped slightly so had to do a quick side step to get in view. I hadn't got the nerve to try a retake as a police car had just driven past and slowed down - not for me, I don't think, but the two working girls 50 yards or so down the street. But a van with a couple of workmen had also slowed and the passenger gave me a wolf whistle (not appreciation but cheek!) and the guy on the bike (you can just see him approaching) was getting very close, so I scrambled back into the safe little world that is my car.
Recently I added the 1:64 scale British Red Cross Land Rover model to my collection. I’ve been keen to lay my hands on it since I heard the model had been commissioned, as I first volunteered with BRC as an event First Aider at 15 years old. I decided to do a photoshoot with this new addition, and chose to use the Belshotmuir Tri-Emergency Service Station diorama, utilising the Kingsway Models kit “Gainsborough Fire Station 1:76 scale”. The photoshoot takes place during an open day.
On show are:
Scottish Fire & Rescue Service - Crew present equipment next to Pump Ladder appliance, Aerial Rescue Pump and Officers car.
Scottish Ambulance Service in attendance put on a demonstration of dealing with an unconscious casualty. SAS are here with a 4x4 Paramedic Response Unit (PRU), a non-emergency Patient Transport Service ambulance and Care Assistant, and an Accident & Emergency Mercedes Benz Sprinter box body ambulance.
Tayside Police are represented by two Eastern Division (Angus) resources, local beat/response car Echo Mike 1-1 (Eastern Mobile, section 1 beat 1) and Roads Policing Unit (RPU) car Echo Tango 63 (Eastern Traffic car 63). Central Division, Dundee City, have sent the City Centre cell van callsign Charlie Mike 1-1 (Central Mobile, section 1 beat 1).
British Red Cross - Emergency Response Service - Land Rover (some pictures)
The British Red Cross is a humanitarian organisation with special auxiliary role with standing invitation to provide humanitarian services and aid. The model shown here is a Search & Rescue ambulance and represents the Emergency Response side of BRC. The Red Cross can respond to individuals in need, such as through their Fire & Emergency Support Service who attend the locus of home fires for example to provide shelter, toiletries, food and assistance with temporary accommodation and more. BRC also respond to regional and National emergencies, providing ambulance vehicles and crews and, as shown by this 1:64 scale model, a fleet of all terrain vehicles equipped with defibrillators.
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.
Diorama - Mossend District General Hospital, Emergency Department & Acute Assessment Unit (left door). Created with Kingsway Models kit - Holby City A&E from BBC show Casualty. Models - Code 1 - Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) Accident & Emergency service (A&E) Mercedes Benz Sprinter. Code 3 - SAS, A&E Urgent Tier service, Ford Transit x2. Code 3 - Police Scotland - Volvo V70.
Ambulance and Emergency Medical Services in Scotland are provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS), a special Health Board of the greater National Health Service (NHS) Scotland. SAS provides these services throughout all of mainland Scotland and the Islands. Emergency Medical Services are provided by the Accident & Emergency branch, providing Double Crewed Ambulances typically formed of a Paramedic and Technician, but which can be formed of double Tech or Para crews. Single Paramedics in cars, motorbikes or bicycles are Paramedic Response Units, used to provide immediate pre-hospital care to patients, or treating and discharging at scene. Also part of the A&E branch is the Urgent Tier service, using crews formed of an Ambulance Technician and Care Assistant, Urgent Tier convey patients who have been urgently referred to Hospital. The patients General Practitioner can request admission within a 1-4 hour timeframe. As such Urgent Tier vehicles use their emergency warning systems less than standard A&E crews. Due to the presence of a qualified Technician however UT resources can be used as a first responder to immediately life threatening calls.
SAS also has an Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (ScotSTAR), bringing Medical and Nursing care to patients as they transfer between Hospitals. Scotland is the only part of the UK to provide fully government funded Air Ambulance services, with two fixed wing and two rotary aircraft. They are assisted by the Scottish Charity Air Ambulance who provide additional cover with two helicopters of their own.
Special Operations Response Team (SORT) provide an emergency response to complex rescue, CBRN, terrorist attacks and other such incidents.
Scheduled Care is provided by the Patient Transport Service, the non-emergency branch of SAS. Using a variety of vehicles from cars, people carriers, minibuses and minibus conversion ambulances, PTS provides transport to and from outpatient clinics, for planned admissions and discharges. Staff crewing PTS vehicles are called Ambulance Care Assistants (ACA). They are experts in moving and handling, whereas A&E crews frequently remove patients from houses using equipment such as carry chairs, ACA’s must be adept at taking their patients back up stairs as well as extrications.
As with the majority of healthcare in Scotland, ambulance and emergency medical services are free at the point of use. Funded by National Insurance contributions made by those in work, Scots are extremely proud and defensive of our NHS. We generally believe that everyone should pay towards the common fund to ensure no-one has their life destroyed by medical costs, as illness and injury are not a choice. Having worked in the NHS and with SAS myself, I have resuscitated a man having a heart attack, conveyed him to Hospital, watched as Coronary Care staff removed the blockage from his artery and left the man sitting up in bed in CCU. Knowing that he will be repatriated to his nearest General Hospital for Coronary Rehab and will go home to ongoing care in the community. That man could take time to recover, safe in the knowledge that no crippling bill or endless fights with healthcare insurance would befall him. That is our NHS, that is why we love it and cannot understand the US system.
I recently shared a number of my 1:76 scale Scottish emergency service models. In response to my pictures, someone kindly linked me to a website where I found these 3D printed figures. Depicting both an Ambulance crew with patient and trolley and Scenes of Crime Officers with a “victim” and PC figure.
These figures came unpainted which enabled me to paint the Ambulance crew into the old Irish Green A&E uniform of the Scottish Ambulance Service, with little dots of blue and white on the arms and chest for the star of life and NHS Scotland badges. The SOCO’s are in white PPE suits with light blue boot covers and surgical masks and dark blue nitrile gloves. Our victim wears a bloodied leather jacket, jeans and red Converse - I was proud of getting a tiny white line below the red 😂. Finally the female Strathclyde Police Officer who I’ve painted wearing the more modern stab vest with blue and silver Battenberg markings.
I’m really happy with how these have turned out. I might come back to them with a better caucasian flesh coloured paint, but I’m still very pleased.
Pictured are three different scenes. At first I decided to shoot the SAS crew at Hospital then a street setting for the murder investigation. After reviewing those pictures I came back to the street scene to get some shots of all of the new figures together. I hope you enjoy seeing them. The Hospital diorama is named Mossend District General Hospital and utilises the Kingsway Models kit build of Holby City Emergency Department from the BBC’s Casualty tv show. The second layout uses a number of kit build buildings to create a basic street scene.
Ambulance and Emergency Medical Services in Scotland are provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS), a special Health Board of the greater National Health Service (NHS) Scotland. SAS provides these services throughout all of mainland Scotland and the Islands. Emergency Medical Services are provided by the Accident & Emergency branch, providing Double Crewed Ambulances typically formed of a Paramedic and Technician, but which can be formed of double Tech or Para crews. Single Paramedics in cars, motorbikes or bicycles are Paramedic Response Units, used to provide immediate pre-hospital care to patients, or treating and discharging at scene. Also part of the A&E branch is the Urgent Tier service, using crews formed of an Ambulance Technician and Care Assistant, Urgent Tier convey patients who have been urgently referred to Hospital. The patients General Practitioner can request admission within a 1-4 hour timeframe. As such Urgent Tier vehicles use their emergency warning systems less than standard A&E crews. Due to the presence of a qualified Technician however UT resources can be used as a first responder to immediately life threatening calls.
SAS also has an Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (ScotSTAR), bringing Medical and Nursing care to patients as they transfer between Hospitals. Scotland is the only part of the UK to provide fully government funded Air Ambulance services, with two fixed wing and two rotary aircraft. They are assisted by the Scottish Charity Air Ambulance who provide additional cover with two helicopters of their own.
Special Operations Response Team (SORT) provide an emergency response to complex rescue, CBRN, terrorist attacks and other such incidents.
Scheduled Care is provided by the Patient Transport Service, the non-emergency branch of SAS. Using a variety of vehicles from cars, people carriers, minibuses and minibus conversion ambulances, PTS provides transport to and from outpatient clinics, for planned admissions and discharges. Staff crewing PTS vehicles are called Ambulance Care Assistants (ACA). They are experts in moving and handling, whereas A&E crews frequently remove patients from houses using equipment such as carry chairs, ACA’s must be adept at taking their patients back up stairs as well as extrications.
As with the majority of healthcare in Scotland, ambulance and emergency medical services are free at the point of use. Funded by National Insurance contributions made by those in work, Scots are extremely proud and defensive of our NHS. We generally believe that everyone should pay towards the common fund to ensure no-one has their life destroyed by medical costs, as illness and injury are not a choice. Having worked in the NHS and with SAS myself, I have resuscitated a man having a heart attack, conveyed him to Hospital, watched as Coronary Care staff removed the blockage from his artery and left the man sitting up in bed in CCU. Knowing that he will be repatriated to his nearest General Hospital for Coronary Rehab and will go home to ongoing care in the community. That man could take time to recover, safe in the knowledge that no crippling bill or endless fights with healthcare insurance would befall him. That is our NHS, that is why we love it and cannot understand the US system.
Recently I added the 1:64 scale British Red Cross Land Rover model to my collection. I’ve been keen to lay my hands on it since I heard the model had been commissioned, as I first volunteered with BRC as an event First Aider at 15 years old. I decided to do a photoshoot with this new addition, and chose to use the Belshotmuir Tri-Emergency Service Station diorama, utilising the Kingsway Models kit “Gainsborough Fire Station 1:76 scale”. The photoshoot takes place during an open day.
On show are:
Scottish Fire & Rescue Service - Crew present equipment next to Pump Ladder appliance, Aerial Rescue Pump and Officers car.
Scottish Ambulance Service in attendance put on a demonstration of dealing with an unconscious casualty. SAS are here with a 4x4 Paramedic Response Unit (PRU), a non-emergency Patient Transport Service ambulance and Care Assistant, and an Accident & Emergency Mercedes Benz Sprinter box body ambulance.
Tayside Police are represented by two Eastern Division (Angus) resources, local beat/response car Echo Mike 1-1 (Eastern Mobile, section 1 beat 1) and Roads Policing Unit (RPU) car Echo Tango 63 (Eastern Traffic car 63). Central Division, Dundee City, have sent the City Centre cell van callsign Charlie Mike 1-1 (Central Mobile, section 1 beat 1).
British Red Cross - Emergency Response Service - Land Rover (some pictures)
The British Red Cross is a humanitarian organisation with special auxiliary role with standing invitation to provide humanitarian services and aid. The model shown here is a Search & Rescue ambulance and represents the Emergency Response side of BRC. The Red Cross can respond to individuals in need, such as through their Fire & Emergency Support Service who attend the locus of home fires for example to provide shelter, toiletries, food and assistance with temporary accommodation and more. BRC also respond to regional and National emergencies, providing ambulance vehicles and crews and, as shown by this 1:64 scale model, a fleet of all terrain vehicles equipped with defibrillators.
Recently I added the 1:64 scale British Red Cross Land Rover model to my collection. I’ve been keen to lay my hands on it since I heard the model had been commissioned, as I first volunteered with BRC as an event First Aider at 15 years old. I decided to do a photoshoot with this new addition, and chose to use the Belshotmuir Tri-Emergency Service Station diorama, utilising the Kingsway Models kit “Gainsborough Fire Station 1:76 scale”. The photoshoot takes place during an open day.
On show are:
Scottish Fire & Rescue Service - Crew present equipment next to Pump Ladder appliance, Aerial Rescue Pump and Officers car.
Scottish Ambulance Service in attendance put on a demonstration of dealing with an unconscious casualty. SAS are here with a 4x4 Paramedic Response Unit (PRU), a non-emergency Patient Transport Service ambulance and Care Assistant, and an Accident & Emergency Mercedes Benz Sprinter box body ambulance.
Tayside Police are represented by two Eastern Division (Angus) resources, local beat/response car Echo Mike 1-1 (Eastern Mobile, section 1 beat 1) and Roads Policing Unit (RPU) car Echo Tango 63 (Eastern Traffic car 63). Central Division, Dundee City, have sent the City Centre cell van callsign Charlie Mike 1-1 (Central Mobile, section 1 beat 1).
British Red Cross - Emergency Response Service - Land Rover (some pictures)
The British Red Cross is a humanitarian organisation with special auxiliary role with standing invitation to provide humanitarian services and aid. The model shown here is a Search & Rescue ambulance and represents the Emergency Response side of BRC. The Red Cross can respond to individuals in need, such as through their Fire & Emergency Support Service who attend the locus of home fires for example to provide shelter, toiletries, food and assistance with temporary accommodation and more. BRC also respond to regional and National emergencies, providing ambulance vehicles and crews and, as shown by this 1:64 scale model, a fleet of all terrain vehicles equipped with defibrillators.
This picture shows the Acute Assessment Unit to the left of the public entrance for the Emergency Department (ED or A&E). Parked outside AAU are two Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) vehicles, representing two branches of the service - on the right is a Patient Transport Service (PTS) ambulance of the Scheduled Care branch, on the left is an Urgent Tier Ambulance of the Accident & Emergency branch. Staff of both parts of SAS are also represented in the old style uniforms. Ambulance Technicians and Paramedics are shown here in the old Irish Green uniform, while the Ambulance Care Assistants (ACA) are in a light blue uniform.
To the left of the Hospital building is a Portacabin, used as a staff room for SAS staff. A Strathclyde Police VW Transporter cell van is found parked outside and taking advantage of the free tea and coffee inside before taking over a Hospital watch.
This is my diorama of “Mossend District General Hospital” in 1:76 scale (OO Gauge). It was built using the Kingsway Models kit of Holby City A&E, from the BBC show Casualty. Mossend is a hospital within the fictional NHS Lanarkside health board, served by the Scottish Ambulance Service and covered by both Strathclyde Police and Strathclyde Fire & Rescue Service. The diorama serves to show emergency service, taxi and public transport models from the 1990’s to present day.
All three model vehicles shown here are “Code 3” reproductions and are all my own work. The Police Van and Urgent Tier ambulances were easy, requiring little work and the application of waterslide transfers. The PTS ambulance required a full repaint from yellow to white in addition to waterslide transfers to complete.
Ambulance and Emergency Medical Services in Scotland are provided by the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS), a special Health Board of the greater National Health Service (NHS) Scotland. SAS provides these services throughout all of mainland Scotland and the Islands. Emergency Medical Services are provided by the Accident & Emergency branch, providing Double Crewed Ambulances typically formed of a Paramedic and Technician, but which can be formed of double Tech or Para crews. Single Paramedics in cars, motorbikes or bicycles are Paramedic Response Units, used to provide immediate pre-hospital care to patients, or treating and discharging at scene. Also part of the A&E branch is the Urgent Tier service, using crews formed of an Ambulance Technician and Care Assistant, Urgent Tier convey patients who have been urgently referred to Hospital. The patients General Practitioner can request admission within a 1-4 hour timeframe. As such Urgent Tier vehicles use their emergency warning systems less than standard A&E crews. Due to the presence of a qualified Technician however UT resources can be used as a first responder to immediately life threatening calls.
SAS also has an Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (ScotSTAR), bringing Medical and Nursing care to patients as they transfer between Hospitals. Scotland is the only part of the UK to provide fully government funded Air Ambulance services, with two fixed wing and two rotary aircraft. They are assisted by the Scottish Charity Air Ambulance who provide additional cover with two helicopters of their own.
Special Operations Response Team (SORT) provide an emergency response to complex rescue, CBRN, terrorist attacks and other such incidents.
Scheduled Care is provided by the Patient Transport Service, the non-emergency branch of SAS. Using a variety of vehicles from cars, people carriers, minibuses and minibus conversion ambulances, PTS provides transport to and from outpatient clinics, for planned admissions and discharges. Staff crewing PTS vehicles are called Ambulance Care Assistants (ACA). They are experts in moving and handling, whereas A&E crews frequently remove patients from houses using equipment such as carry chairs, ACA’s must be adept at taking their patients back up stairs as well as extrications.
As with the majority of healthcare in Scotland, ambulance and emergency medical services are free at the point of use. Funded by National Insurance contributions made by those in work, Scots are extremely proud and defensive of our NHS. We generally believe that everyone should pay towards the common fund to ensure no-one has their life destroyed by medical costs, as illness and injury are not a choice. Having worked in the NHS and with SAS myself, I have resuscitated a man having a heart attack, conveyed him to Hospital, watched as Coronary Care staff removed the blockage from his artery and left the man sitting up in bed in CCU. Knowing that he will be repatriated to his nearest General Hospital for Coronary Rehab and will go home to ongoing care in the community. That man could take time to recover, safe in the knowledge that no crippling bill or endless fights with healthcare insurance would befall him. That is our NHS, that is why we love it and cannot understand the US system.
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) Patient Transport Service (PTS) is the non-emergency section of SAS operations. Crewed by Ambulance Care Assistants (ACA), PTS transports patients to and from outpatient clinics, day hospitals, planned discharges, non-urgent inter-hospital transfers, dialysis and more. ACA’s are advanced drivers, experts in manual handling, qualified in Basic Life Support and AED use. PTS road staff are given their taskings by the Ambulance Control Centre. Requests for PTS transport can be made directly by patients or by healthcare professionals, calling Scheduled Care Coordinators in the ACC, co-located with 999 Call Handlers & Dispatchers. As with Emergency calls, PTS requests are triaged - simply having an appointment to attend is not sufficient, there must be an appropriate need. That said, those on low incomes etc who attend outpatient appointments but do not require Ambulance transport can still reclaim their costs with the hospital cashiers office. This is in large part due to the deeply ingrained belief that access to healthcare is a right, that it should be free at the point of use, and no-one who is struggling should be out of pocket because they needed help. Likewise, NHS24 (Scotland’s Out of Hours healthcare service) has its own Patient Transport Service, completely separate to SAS PTS, using small unmarked minibuses. These are sent to collect and return patients who require face to face assessment but have no transport, also for transferring stable but urgent patients from the assessment site to Hospital. Personally I’ve had NHS24’s PTS pick me up in the middle of the night, take me to see the Doctor, take me to the OOH pharmacy to fill my prescription before taking me home again. In regards to SAS PTS, my Gran was regularly taken to and from Day Hospital by the most lovely crew. While I never worked PTS, I worked alongside them - both in the ACC and on the road. Some years ago, PTS was viewed as the only gateway to becoming an A&E Technician then Paramedic, applicants had to have both a minibus (D1) licence for PTS vehicles as well as Light Goods (C1) for the A&E fleet! When I joined as a trainee Tech I only had to have C1, that still cost me just shy of £1k for the theory test, 1.5 day crash course with a test on the second afternoon. Thank feck I passed it first time!
My SAS collection has represented PTS with only one model, I decided to add to this. Unfortunately the Ford Transit is not accurate, this is creative licensing as there are no models of the type actually used. For more mobile patients, PTS operate single crewed smaller vehicles. This has included VW Transporter minibuses, as well as cars. This now means I do have an accurate depiction of a PTS vehicle in scale model form.
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) Patient Transport Service (PTS) is the non-emergency section of SAS operations. Crewed by Ambulance Care Assistants (ACA), PTS transports patients to and from outpatient clinics, day hospitals, planned discharges, non-urgent inter-hospital transfers, dialysis and more. ACA’s are advanced drivers, experts in manual handling, qualified in Basic Life Support and AED use. PTS road staff are given their taskings by the Ambulance Control Centre. Requests for PTS transport can be made directly by patients or by healthcare professionals, calling Scheduled Care Coordinators in the ACC, co-located with 999 Call Handlers & Dispatchers. As with Emergency calls, PTS requests are triaged - simply having an appointment to attend is not sufficient, there must be an appropriate need. That said, those on low incomes etc who attend outpatient appointments but do not require Ambulance transport can still reclaim their costs with the hospital cashiers office. This is in large part due to the deeply ingrained belief that access to healthcare is a right, that it should be free at the point of use, and no-one who is struggling should be out of pocket because they needed help. Likewise, NHS24 (Scotland’s Out of Hours healthcare service) has its own Patient Transport Service, completely separate to SAS PTS, using small unmarked minibuses. These are sent to collect and return patients who require face to face assessment but have no transport, also for transferring stable but urgent patients from the assessment site to Hospital. Personally I’ve had NHS24’s PTS pick me up in the middle of the night, take me to see the Doctor, take me to the OOH pharmacy to fill my prescription before taking me home again. In regards to SAS PTS, my Gran was regularly taken to and from Day Hospital by the most lovely crew. While I never worked PTS, I worked alongside them - both in the ACC and on the road. Some years ago, PTS was viewed as the only gateway to becoming an A&E Technician then Paramedic, applicants had to have both a minibus (D1) licence for PTS vehicles as well as Light Goods (C1) for the A&E fleet! When I joined as a trainee Tech I only had to have C1, that still cost me just shy of £1k for the theory test, 1.5 day crash course with a test on the second afternoon. Thank feck I passed it first time!
My SAS collection has represented PTS with only one model, I decided to add to this. Unfortunately the Ford Transit is not accurate, this is creative licensing as there are no models of the type actually used. For more mobile patients, PTS operate single crewed smaller vehicles. This has included VW Transporter minibuses, as well as cars. This now means I do have an accurate depiction of a PTS vehicle in scale model form.
There are more of these in the health services than a lot of people realise.Luckily there are also some wonderful mental health professionals and I've been both fortunate and unfortunate to meet both in great numbers!
The first of the studio shots in my self-portrait series 'Out of My Mind' - a portfolio of photo-therapy work documenting my personal journey through mental illness, inspired by the works of Jo Spence and Cindy Sherman.
Photographed on 35mm Black and White film and processed and printed by me on 10x8 gloss paper.
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) Patient Transport Service (PTS) is the non-emergency section of SAS operations. Crewed by Ambulance Care Assistants (ACA), PTS transports patients to and from outpatient clinics, day hospitals, planned discharges, non-urgent inter-hospital transfers, dialysis and more. ACA’s are advanced drivers, experts in manual handling, qualified in Basic Life Support and AED use. PTS road staff are given their taskings by the Ambulance Control Centre. Requests for PTS transport can be made directly by patients or by healthcare professionals, calling Scheduled Care Coordinators in the ACC, co-located with 999 Call Handlers & Dispatchers. As with Emergency calls, PTS requests are triaged - simply having an appointment to attend is not sufficient, there must be an appropriate need. That said, those on low incomes etc who attend outpatient appointments but do not require Ambulance transport can still reclaim their costs with the hospital cashiers office. This is in large part due to the deeply ingrained belief that access to healthcare is a right, that it should be free at the point of use, and no-one who is struggling should be out of pocket because they needed help. Likewise, NHS24 (Scotland’s Out of Hours healthcare service) has its own Patient Transport Service, completely separate to SAS PTS, using small unmarked minibuses. These are sent to collect and return patients who require face to face assessment but have no transport, also for transferring stable but urgent patients from the assessment site to Hospital. Personally I’ve had NHS24’s PTS pick me up in the middle of the night, take me to see the Doctor, take me to the OOH pharmacy to fill my prescription before taking me home again. In regards to SAS PTS, my Gran was regularly taken to and from Day Hospital by the most lovely crew. While I never worked PTS, I worked alongside them - both in the ACC and on the road. Some years ago, PTS was viewed as the only gateway to becoming an A&E Technician then Paramedic, applicants had to have both a minibus (D1) licence for PTS vehicles as well as Light Goods (C1) for the A&E fleet! When I joined as a trainee Tech I only had to have C1, that still cost me just shy of £1k for the theory test, 1.5 day crash course with a test on the second afternoon. Thank feck I passed it first time!
My SAS collection has represented PTS with only one model, I decided to add to this. Unfortunately the Ford Transit is not accurate, this is creative licensing as there are no models of the type actually used. For more mobile patients, PTS operate single crewed smaller vehicles. This has included VW Transporter minibuses, as well as cars. This now means I do have an accurate depiction of a PTS vehicle in scale model form.
A badge issued by Essex County Council to workers and volunteers who visited people’s homes providing care and assistance. The Essex crest showing three scimitars is at the top left.
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Enamels: 2 (red & blue).
Finish: Chrome plated.
Material: Brass.
Fixer: Pin.
Size: 7/8” x 1” (about 23mm x 26mm).
Process: Die-stamped.
Imprint: No maker’s name or mark.
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) Patient Transport Service (PTS) is the non-emergency section of SAS operations. Crewed by Ambulance Care Assistants (ACA), PTS transports patients to and from outpatient clinics, day hospitals, planned discharges, non-urgent inter-hospital transfers, dialysis and more. ACA’s are advanced drivers, experts in manual handling, qualified in Basic Life Support and AED use. PTS road staff are given their taskings by the Ambulance Control Centre. Requests for PTS transport can be made directly by patients or by healthcare professionals, calling Scheduled Care Coordinators in the ACC, co-located with 999 Call Handlers & Dispatchers. As with Emergency calls, PTS requests are triaged - simply having an appointment to attend is not sufficient, there must be an appropriate need. That said, those on low incomes etc who attend outpatient appointments but do not require Ambulance transport can still reclaim their costs with the hospital cashiers office. This is in large part due to the deeply ingrained belief that access to healthcare is a right, that it should be free at the point of use, and no-one who is struggling should be out of pocket because they needed help. Likewise, NHS24 (Scotland’s Out of Hours healthcare service) has its own Patient Transport Service, completely separate to SAS PTS, using small unmarked minibuses. These are sent to collect and return patients who require face to face assessment but have no transport, also for transferring stable but urgent patients from the assessment site to Hospital. Personally I’ve had NHS24’s PTS pick me up in the middle of the night, take me to see the Doctor, take me to the OOH pharmacy to fill my prescription before taking me home again. In regards to SAS PTS, my Gran was regularly taken to and from Day Hospital by the most lovely crew. While I never worked PTS, I worked alongside them - both in the ACC and on the road. Some years ago, PTS was viewed as the only gateway to becoming an A&E Technician then Paramedic, applicants had to have both a minibus (D1) licence for PTS vehicles as well as Light Goods (C1) for the A&E fleet! When I joined as a trainee Tech I only had to have C1, that still cost me just shy of £1k for the theory test, 1.5 day crash course with a test on the second afternoon. Thank feck I passed it first time!
My SAS collection has represented PTS with only one model, I decided to add to this. Unfortunately the Ford Transit is not accurate, this is creative licensing as there are no models of the type actually used. For more mobile patients, PTS operate single crewed smaller vehicles. This has included VW Transporter minibuses, as well as cars. This now means I do have an accurate depiction of a PTS vehicle in scale model form.
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) Patient Transport Service (PTS) is the non-emergency section of SAS operations. Crewed by Ambulance Care Assistants (ACA), PTS transports patients to and from outpatient clinics, day hospitals, planned discharges, non-urgent inter-hospital transfers, dialysis and more. ACA’s are advanced drivers, experts in manual handling, qualified in Basic Life Support and AED use. PTS road staff are given their taskings by the Ambulance Control Centre. Requests for PTS transport can be made directly by patients or by healthcare professionals, calling Scheduled Care Coordinators in the ACC, co-located with 999 Call Handlers & Dispatchers. As with Emergency calls, PTS requests are triaged - simply having an appointment to attend is not sufficient, there must be an appropriate need. That said, those on low incomes etc who attend outpatient appointments but do not require Ambulance transport can still reclaim their costs with the hospital cashiers office. This is in large part due to the deeply ingrained belief that access to healthcare is a right, that it should be free at the point of use, and no-one who is struggling should be out of pocket because they needed help. Likewise, NHS24 (Scotland’s Out of Hours healthcare service) has its own Patient Transport Service, completely separate to SAS PTS, using small unmarked minibuses. These are sent to collect and return patients who require face to face assessment but have no transport, also for transferring stable but urgent patients from the assessment site to Hospital. Personally I’ve had NHS24’s PTS pick me up in the middle of the night, take me to see the Doctor, take me to the OOH pharmacy to fill my prescription before taking me home again. In regards to SAS PTS, my Gran was regularly taken to and from Day Hospital by the most lovely crew. While I never worked PTS, I worked alongside them - both in the ACC and on the road. Some years ago, PTS was viewed as the only gateway to becoming an A&E Technician then Paramedic, applicants had to have both a minibus (D1) licence for PTS vehicles as well as Light Goods (C1) for the A&E fleet! When I joined as a trainee Tech I only had to have C1, that still cost me just shy of £1k for the theory test, 1.5 day crash course with a test on the second afternoon. Thank feck I passed it first time!
My SAS collection has represented PTS with only one model, I decided to add to this. Unfortunately the Ford Transit is not accurate, this is creative licensing as there are no models of the type actually used. For more mobile patients, PTS operate single crewed smaller vehicles. This has included VW Transporter minibuses, as well as cars. This now means I do have an accurate depiction of a PTS vehicle in scale model form.
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