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Isle of Wight council’s Scrutiny meeting consider Highways PFI, Waste Contract and Cowes Floating Bridge (updated)

Members of the Isle of Wight council Corporate Scrutiny Committee met in County Hall yesterday (Tuesday).

Items considered (see papers) included an update on Covid 19 Response and Recovery, to consider Quarterly Performance and Finance Reports – including Highways PFI, Waste Contract and Cowes Floating Bridge, as well as the Newport Harbour Masterplan, and Approval of Housing Strategy.

This will be Andrew Garratt’s last meeting as Chair.

Updates appear below – anything contained within ((double brackets)) is comment by the author.

Article edit
8.50am 9th Sep 2020 – Tense changed to past, converting article to catch-up rather than live

Image: Kaitlyn Baker under CC BY 2.0

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lifewriterbutmainlybeer
29, January 2020 7:59 pm

I can vouch for this, personally. A couple of years ago an elderly lady tripped on a flagstone and fell and broke her hip in front of me. I sat behind her to support her in drizzle for an hour until an ambulance arrived, after two 999 calls. Three young adults emerged from the ambulance and administered some painkiller and got the lady on to a stretcher,… Read more »

kerry
Reply to  lifewriterbutmainlybeer
30, January 2020 10:48 pm

It isn’t a question of ‘emergency service personnel not being able to do their jobs.’ Many patients are much heavier these days, and can be beyond the ability of two ambulance staff to physically lift them. They are not employed to physically harm themselves, that would be stupid.

Alternative Perspective
29, January 2020 8:05 pm

I was in St Mary’s A&E literally the other day, and it was very interesting to see how they were triaging patients, the person I was with was first see by a paramedic who was working in A&E, who rapidly took stats, with a nurse who took bloods, followed shortly after by a doctor. Some patients presenting at the A&E reception were being redirected to the urgent… Read more »

Alternative Perspective
29, January 2020 8:26 pm

The difficulty with the 111 service is the very lengthy series of questions they ask to determine urgency and appropriate response, it doesn’t allow for human weaknesses. I recently came across an elderly lady whose husband had taken a really bad fall and had cut his head quite badly, whilst he was on a cold concrete floor in shock, she was steaming the flow of blood with… Read more »

Karma
Reply to  Alternative Perspective
30, January 2020 10:37 am

Bad experience also with 111 as son’s partner fell from top to bottom on stairs in middle of night, mistook her footing. She was conscious but very shocked and disoriented; we could see her arm was swelling. Called 111 and thought they would immediately send a paramedic, oh no, instead they asked her, as stated above, ‘hundreds’ of questions knowing full well she was in considerable pain.… Read more »

Alternative Perspective
Reply to  Karma
30, January 2020 11:52 am

I am sorry to say this, but the 111 hub lies, in the case of the elderly man who had fallen and cut his head, and unbeknown to those present had sustained other injury’s, his wife was told an ambulance couldn’t be sent earlier because they were all dealing with life threatening cases, little did she know that across from the Quay Arts Center where the patient… Read more »