The NHS is to introduce electric ambulances, raising concerns that its drive for Net Zero is being put above patient safety owing to the limited range and long charging times. The Telegraph has the story.
Paramedics fear patients will be forced to wait longer because of the hours lost recharging the vehicles, with particular concern about coverage of rural areas, given the limited range.
The move next month is part of a series of measures that whistleblowers fear put green credentials above medical priorities.
The drive had created a bureaucracy that was diverting vast sums from the front line, and placing “grossly unethical” obstacles in the way of clinical decisions, one whistleblower warned.
NHS England has set up a Greener NHS team with a combined salary bill of £3 million a year, leaked documents reveal.
Officials created 48 roles, including five on six-figure salaries, as part of efforts to pursue an environmental agenda which means every medicine and product has to undergo an “evergreen assessment”.
The 135-question process means that no decision can be taken without a product’s social values and contribution to emissions targets being considered.
One supplier alleged that devices such as plastic cannulas were routinely being rejected on environmental grounds, despite the fact they would improve patient safety.
An extra layer of bureaucracy will be added next month, with every NHS supplier asked to draw up a carbon reduction plan.
Other eco-initiatives being rolled out include “climate-friendly pain relief” for mothers in labour and chemotherapy deliveries and GP visits via e-bikes. …
Next month, electric ambulances will be piloted across swathes of the country. Under the scheme, electric ambulances will be trailed across the North West, East of England, Yorkshire, South West and London at a cost of around £150,000 each.
The West Midlands has already introduced the vehicles, although last year board papers from the West Midlands Ambulance Service revealed major concerns.
An evaluation of the pilot scheme found the ambulances took up to four hours to charge and travelled an average of 70 miles between charging, with the papers warning “range and recharge time is a significant limiting factor”.
While the vehicles had a range of 100 miles, which would cover a shift in urban areas, this would not be the case from most of its hubs, it states, adding: “Rural areas in particular are covering twice this mileage and more in a shift.” The report says that, as a minimum, ambulances need to be able to cover 160 miles.
Standard ambulances can cover up to 800 miles a day and be filled up in just minutes.
£3 million a year on 48 roles dedicated to making the NHS less efficient and less safe. No wonder the health service is such an ineffective, bureaucratic mess. And this is under a Conservative Government.
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Further to the article I shared yesterday, shall we see how many of the ‘Queers 4 Palestine/We Luv Terrorists’ Hamas/Houthi fanclub of Useful Idiots turn out tomorrow to show the world how thick they are?
”A court of the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public execution on homosexuality charges, the French wire service AFP reported on Tuesday. Another 35 people have been detained for similar charges.
The ruling was made in Ibb, a Houthi-controlled province from which the jihadist group has been launching attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, opening a war that reached its four-month mark this week.
“The [Houthis] are ramping up their abuses at home while the world is busy watching their attacks in the Red Sea,” said Niku Jafarnia, a Yemen researcher for Human Rights Watch.
A UN Security Council report in 2023 relayed that “the Houthis are [reportedly] detaining children as young as 13 years old,” some of whom “are accused of ‘indecent acts’ for their alleged homosexual orientation.”
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-785766
I wonder how other countries handle this ‘fake conversion to Christianity as a tactic’ situation. But not to worry, the government are investigating so I think they’ll see through and stop all this obvious nonsense forthwith. < pff! >;
”The home secretary is investigating how the asylum system deals with migrants who have converted to Christianity.
It follows claims from a Weymouth church that Muslim men living on board the Bibby Stockholm barge, which is moored off Portland in Dorset, were preparing for Christian baptism.
Sussex MP Tim Loughton raised the issue in Parliament on Wednesday.
Weymouth Baptist Church insisted the requests for baptism were genuine.
People can apply for UK asylum based on religion if you have a well-founded fear of persecution in your home country because of your religious beliefs.
Dave Rees, an elder at Weymouth Baptist Church, defended its decision to take in the men – 40 in total with six having already been baptised.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4 on Sunday, he said the church had a Farsi-speaking minister who knew the asylum seekers’ language and culture.
“Because we had this link we felt confident that the measures we put in place and the scrutiny we have, there’s no reason we would doubt these asylum seekers,” Mr Rees said.
He added some of the men said they were Christians in their home country while others had completed the 10-week Alpha course in the UK, which is an evangelical programme run by local churches.
“Obviously we need to make sure that they believe in Jesus, they believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, they repent of their sins and also they want to start a new life in the church,” he said.
“And they have to give a public testimony at their baptism, which they did in a native language and was translated into English.”
After this process, he said there were no qualms from the church about the men’s faith in Christianity.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-68239004
I wondered where all the Time Share & Double Glazing Salesmen had gone ! Good old C of E , in Welby we trust , NOT
If the Alpha course is so effective in teaching Christianity, could someone make a booking for the Bishops to attend, especially the Archbishop.
The Reverend Matthew Firth is absolutely right to expose the “conveyor belt” of Fake Baptisms, which is undermining Christianity everywhere in the West. Christian clergy of all denominations should stop being such gullible fools. They should also take time to study some core beliefs of Islam, which include the fact that Muslims are allowed to say or do anything, including fake conversions to other religions, in order to further the Global Caliphate.
Time and time again, Fake Asylum Seekers in the West rush to get baptised, then scurry down to the immigration office waving their Fake Baptism Certificates to get instant asylum/refugee status. Then they disappear back into Islam, never to be seen in church again.
UK100 Councils Banning Your Car
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
Councils Banning Your Car – latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
We’re seeing plenty of this when we go out
Wednesday morning Grove End & London Rd, Bagshot
Why can’t donors transfer our regular donation to the DS via new Based platform instead of having to subscribe separately?
I make a modest monthly contribution to DS and have done so for about 3+ years. Not for the opportunity to comment BTL, but to support the cause.
I am also a loyal listener to the Weekly Sceptic podcast, since it started. Now I, and listeners like me, are being described as ‘grifters’ and ‘spongers’ for failing to pay for content via the Based donation.
I was looking forward to Based, and I expected to be told that existing DS contributors would be transferred automatically to the new platform – even maybe at a higher rate. But apparently not
It’s a PITA to have to manage multiple memberships and subscriptions and I take exception to Nick Dixon describing me as a cheapskate. I can’t be the only one
You should be proud of the DS and I am pleased to see its success, but try not to alienate your willing donors.
Update…. I have now had an explanation from DS. Apparently the DS and Based are different companies so donations to one cannot be applied to another.
Guess I will be donating to both then
So Michael Mann won his defamation case… as I predicted yesterday, Washington juries will always decide cases on ideology.
Nailed on certainty wasn’t it
Mann lost the argument, but won the case. It was a long shot, but good on the boys for taking him on.
A film and/or play should be made using the exact transcripts in this court case, to publicise the craziness of the reality of this case and to show a wider audience exactly the type of person Mann is and how weak his hockey stick claim is.
Jon, I was so wrong. I overestimated people’s intelligence and common sense, in Washington at least. The members of the jury may be quite intelligent, in terms of IQ, but I think their crazy decision is the way members of a cult behave. They have been convinced by propaganda, not science, that there is a climate emergency which will have disastrous consequences if nothing is done to prevent it, and anything which weakens that message must be opposed, regardless of the merits of the case.
Having had experience as a lawyer with a US jury they have a tendency to award ridiculous large amounts (usually knocked down on appeal) especially if they think foreigners will be paying maybe in the hope they may be awarded similar. In my case the judge completely reversed the jury’s decision having realised the US plaintiffs were fraudsters. Many in this country have a lot of faith still in juries which I think is misplaced especially following some of the convictions following anti lockdown/jabs prosecutions.
Here we go, this was always a gnats cock away – https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/ban-wood-burning-stoves-uk-9086677
Controlling the proles cannot be done without controlling their food and fuel supply. Controlling the food supply can’t be done without controlling farming, and controlling the fuel supply can’t be done without controlling what can be used as fuel.
I always thought a ban was likely in London (for which reason I haven’t bothered getting a new, cleaner burning one!), but it seems like this ban would extend across the entire country – how would that work in the Outer Hebrides? Unenforceable in most placed (could probably be enforceable in London and most cities through a combination of snitches, of who there are plenty, and a ban on delivering wood fuel to city addresses). I expect a ban would be limited to cities, at least at first.
Summer BBQs next?
God I hate these people.
So I will soon have to remove my Woodburner , Chris Whitty says so & some mob Mums for Lungs
apparently the stoves are killing 38,000 people a year ! Who Knew .
Must be true, it’s the-statins-guy.
The ONS say that 1,400 people died from Asthma or complications around asthma in 2018. Our deaths are ten times higher than the rate in India where wood and dung burning, and industrial pollution are far higher than anything we manage. This sounds like the normal left wing thing of deciding that there is a problem, and then deciding what the root cause is without any thought what-so-ever, then try to have it banned ‘in the common good’. . Bless them, they have a limited play-book.
Yes total control is required
It’s due to more modelling, undoubtedly, based on the no-threshold-linear model. You work out how much CO or whatever it takes to kill a person (x). Then you work out (or more likely guesstimate) how much CO or whatever the leakiest wood-burner you can find will generate using the worst possible fuel (y). Then you estimate the number of woodburners in the country (z), assume there’s no threshold level of toxicity, and calculate x/y X z to get 38,000 deaths. Nobody actually dies at all, unless they stick their head in the woodburner.
You could do a similar thing by finding the LD50 of water to be 6 litres, and assuming that therefore 5% of people will die from drinking 0.6 litres.
Totally bogus, of course, but it’s the basis on which “death by diesel” is calculated to impose ULEZ, or even “death by radiation” (the latter being where the scam started, courtesy of Hermann Muller).
Are you after a job with Professor Pants Down
You could ban vaccines for that number of deaths!
I don’t listen to Triggernometry much these days but this one is worth a listen if you’re interested to know why most people, especially younger generations, are unwilling to debate, have closed minds and stick to what they think they should believe as “good” people. I guess I used to be a bit like that – often sticking to my gut feeling when challenged – until I realised that free speech and a humble, open mind is both liberating and paramount for democracy to work.
“Why Critical Thinking is Dead – Peter Boghossian”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_vW-hkMW-Q&ab_channel=Triggernometry
Softball interviews, but they do have interesting guests sometimes, and sometimes the guests trip themselves up. Two contrasting cases recently(ish) was an escort/ pornstar, who really didn’t sound convincing at all about how she liked her life, and somebody else who wanted to ban porn, who also wasn’t very convincing in her argumentation.
“Bombshell decision by watchdog….” A good job, well done. Simplistic terms that are misleading are a common tactic in a wide variety of products being promoted, such as “safe and effective”.
“Jury finds in favour of Michael Mann in defamation lawsuit against Mark Steyn, Rand Simberg”
Well, slapper my thigh!
Who’d have guessed that one?
The precious hockey stick must remain valid or the whole climate bol!@×s falls apart!
” Parkrun has removed gender, course and age records from its websites after rejecting a campaign to compel transgender runners to record their biological sex, reports the Telegraph.”
I know people that do Parkrun and I believe it has been instrumental in getting a lot of people off their arses and doing something vigorous which makes their lives better. While it is not supposed to be a race, it’s natural and helpful for people to measure themselves against others and see where they fit in. I think there’s a good chance this move will reduce participation.
So, at least some good then.
As a regular dog walker who uses the local footpaths to get to the nearby watermeadows I can assure you that many Parkrunners are anything but competitive – in fact they are more keen to have a good natter than paying any attention to where they are running or other path users.
I’m not exaggerating to say that on a Saturday morning I try to hurry through the section that the social club passes through in case they run into me or tread on the dog. On occasion I’ve had runners swear at me for allowing the dog to stop and also for picking up after it.
The local organisers are so terribly concerned to not exclude anyone they have a ‘Tail Walker’ (it says that on the back of their hi-viz vest) who ambles around after the slowest participant. I’m not joking to say that one had adorned the vest with a fake furry tail. Yes, do join in. We won’t take the piss at all.
Fortunately the bastards aren’t running at the moment because the path has puddles and of course the watermeadows are – well, watermeadows. Ooh dear, how sad, never mind.
If it’s not a race why did they ever publish course records?
“If it’s not a race why did they ever publish course records?”
I think it was probably trying to keep two sets of people happy.
“One by one, the economic arguments for porous borders have collapsed. We can’t go on like this, says Annabel Denham”
Well we can go on and probably we will because the political class has so much invested in it. Unlimited immigration, preferably from poor places with different culture and religion, Net Zero, approaching net zero armed forces, and the political class does not understand why we disagree and frankly it is not interested in our views. Wokery – they have decided so the power of the state will be used to suppress alternative opinions.
This went on for nearly a century in the USSR before it collapsed. Who can say how long the politicians can keep the p;lates in the air before the crash.
If past eposodes are any guide, they will attempt to walk away from these policies at some point, blame the public or some mysterious force for their failure and forget about it all, except the debts. Then debts keep mounting. Remember those western politicians who fawned over Communism and / or apologised for it claimin a better form wouyld emerge, they never apologised when the truth came out following its collapse.
White Clots common: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rAoqhTUU0g&list=WL&index=5 by John Campbell published on 8/2/24.
He’s only a few years late to the party…. Campbell is a shill.
Better evidence can be found from Richard Hirschmann, US embalmer who has been collaborating with Dr Ana Mihalcea to find solutions to this.
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/breaking-news-embalmer-richard-hirschman
Campbell has changed his mind over the years, which is good and seems to be one of several useful sources. He has had to work his way round the censorship of the platform referred to as well.
Maybe so but he’s incredibly late to the party, way later than others who have changed sides. IMHO he’s an official gatekeeper of the narrative. Only says what is permitted whilst seeming to reveal ‘new’ information.
Ivor Cummins has stated right from the start that he has to keep within bounds so that he can stay on youtube, but the way in which he did this showed his scepticism right from the start.
My instinct when I first saw Campbell’s vids was not to trust him, haven’t seen anything yet to change that instinct.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/08/the-bbcs-latest-climate-coverage-makes-xr-look-moderate/
Ross Clarke keeping a finger in both pies as usual, or not very well researched:
“Global temperatures are clearly rising. It will be in everyone’s interest if the world reduces carbon emissions – even if it is far from obvious why the climate of the 19th century represented optimum conditions for human civilisation.”
Utter bloody nonsense.
That Putin interview was weird. He spoke as if addressing an adult, intellectually competent audience.
I don’t know if he realises that that’s not how audiences in the western world are spoken to.
The right way to do it is as if speaking to a 10 year old, and not a very bright one at that. In simple soundbites of simple words. And the ideas have to be simple. Basically, ABC good, XYZ bad.
And 2 hours long? Is he not aware that attention spans have shrunk to about 15 to 30 seconds?
I wonder if the interview will awaken in the more mature part of the population the memory if what it feels like to be treated like a grown up.
….aaaaand cue comment seen elsewhere –
“It’s too long, can’t watch. Can someone do a 2 min TikTok summary or YouTube Short please, thx”
No wonder it’s only had 100m views on Twitter, and 6m on YouTube (if we believe the latter’s counting).
And you should see the comments under a couple of GB News hit pieces – people are cancelling their subscriptions by the hundreds.
Nearly 1 million on Rumble too – which for that platform is going some.
What we need next is for Tucker Carlson, or an equivalent, to interview a coherent leader of the Western alliance (Biden or otherwise) about their perspective on this 2 year old destructive war.
And then they could do the same with Netanyahu and A N Other from Hamas.
Then we, the people, the Demos, could fulfil our democratic function and decide the best course of action.
In a perfect world.
I think we can all safely agree that ‘Biden’ and ‘coherent’ in the same sentence is now a proven non sequitur…
https://www.ibtimes.com/republicans-demand-bidens-removal-under-25th-amendment-after-hur-report-3724213
Of course, not necessarily the best, but the most popular (populism?) course of action, for better or worse.