{"id":512,"date":"2022-12-21T14:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2022-12-21T14:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:30:06","slug":"public-urged-to-use-common-sense-as-ambulance-workers-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Public Urged to Use &#8216;Common Sense&#8217; as Ambulance Workers Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Sir Stephen Powis said ambulance strikes will create a &#8220;very difficult day&#8221; for the health service, but suggested heart attacks, and strokes would be covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He told BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme: &#8220;Today is obviously going to be a very difficult day with the health service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But we&#8217;ve been working very closely with the unions to ensure that emergency services for life-threatening conditions are maintained, and that will include stroke and heart attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There are increased clinicians in call centres to ensure that the right response goes out to the right incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ambulance responses are split into categories, with category 1 being the most life-threatening such as cardiac arrest, while category 2 covers conditions such as stroke, heart attack, and sepsis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sir Stephen said strokes fall into the higher end of category 2 cases, and clinicians will determine what response is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He advised people to dial 999 &#8220;as usual&#8221; if they have a life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dial 999 &#8216;As Usual&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-challenges","category-health-wellbeing","category-seasonal"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.toddingtonbaptist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}