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all these TLA's that the emergency services come up with no wonder we confuse civilians

Everything in our blue bag is from an old laerdal hard suitcase like thing. Vollies don't have those in there.

Schism_ wrote:Average uh, 3 - 6 calls a day, 7 days a week. Some weeks there can be none, then suddenly we'll get 5 calls out of no where. Busiest subcentre I've been at yet.

crap!!

Only country sub-centres that do that are mandurah, pinjarra, busso, port hedland, albany, broome, australind, kalgoorlie.

Check for the monrthly stats on the Intranet.

Any chance someone can post the stats up it be interesting to see

Mandurah and pinjarra always seem to be under tha hammer.

Yeahh, somedays we'll have none, maybe 1, then another day we'll have 5... You can never predict it. I now know why they call it Heavens Waiting Room. I think we did 470 odd calls here last year :/

Schism_ wrote:Yeahh, somedays we'll have none, maybe 1, then another day we'll have 5... You can never predict it. I now know why they call it Heavens Waiting Room. I think we did 470 odd calls here last year :/

470 calls a year is a far cry from 3-4, 7 days a week.

More like 1.29 per day. Still that seems very high for a volunteer country subcentre. I know that Australind (full volunteer) do close to 800-900 per year - which means they man the depot just like a paid crew would do - big commitment huh!

For comparison in 2006/2007 financial year:

Serpentine 21 = 1498 (4.1/day)
Two Rocks 21 = 285 (0.78/day)
Wundowie 21 = 243 (0.67/day)

And the busier paid metro crews:

Fremantle 21 = 4050 (11.09/day)
Kensington 21 = 3387 (9.28/day)
Kewdale 21 = 3498 (9.58/day)
Vic Park 21 = 3445 (9.45/day)
Rocky 21 = 3269 (8.96/day)
Ossie Park 21 = 3621 (9.92/day)
Nedlands 21 = 3872 (10.61/day)
Morley 21 = 4084 (11.18/day)
Mandurah 21 = 2866 (7.85/day)

Morley 21 is the busiest single ambulance crew in WA.

I have rounded the /day figures to the nearest 2 decimal places (before someone says they dont add up) and per day = 24 hours.

I don't have the country volunteer crew stats on me at the moment but the busiest full volunteer stations will be Karrtha, Australind and Harvey (in no particular order). Lake King is the quietest. I believe they went 18 months without a job!

Ambul8 wrote:

Schism_ wrote:Yeahh, somedays we'll have none, maybe 1, then another day we'll have 5... You can never predict it. I now know why they call it Heavens Waiting Room. I think we did 470 odd calls here last year :/

470 calls a year is a far cry from 3-4, 7 days a week.

More like 1.29 per day. Still that seems very high for a volunteer country subcentre. I know that Australind (full volunteer) do close to 800-900 per year - which means they man the depot just like a paid crew would do - big commitment huh!

For comparison in 2006/2007 financial year:

Serpentine 21 = 1498 (4.1/day)
Two Rocks 21 = 285 (0.78/day)
Wundowie 21 = 243 (0.67/day)

And the busier paid metro crews:

Fremantle 21 = 4050 (11.09/day)
Kensington 21 = 3387 (9.28/day)
Kewdale 21 = 3498 (9.58/day)
Vic Park 21 = 3445 (9.45/day)
Rocky 21 = 3269 (8.96/day)
Ossie Park 21 = 3621 (9.92/day)
Nedlands 21 = 3872 (10.61/day)
Morley 21 = 4084 (11.18/day)
Mandurah 21 = 2866 (7.85/day)

Morley 21 is the busiest single ambulance crew in WA.

I have rounded the /day figures to the nearest 2 decimal places (before someone says they dont add up) and per day = 24 hours.

I don't have the country volunteer crew stats on me at the moment but the busiest full volunteer stations will be Karrtha, Australind and Harvey (in no particular order). Lake King is the quietest. I believe they went 18 months without a job!

I work literally across the road from Kewdale ambo depot (Abernethy Rd, near corner of Kewdale Rd) and i was amazed at how busy they are. I can see the depot from my desk and it seems like they have job after job.

is anyone able to tell me how big each area is roughly for each station???

kewdale werent to busy wednesday when i was there for day

Ambul8 cheers for those stats

Are australind all vollie or vollie/paid ?

Im right to belive there are no vollies at bunbury anymore ? and havent been for a while ?

Markmywords wrote:Ambul8 cheers for those stats

Are australind all vollie or vollie/paid ?

Im right to belive there are no vollies at bunbury anymore ? and havent been for a while ?

Yes you are correct, Bunbury is the only country station with paramedics that don't work side by side with volunteers, Australind is a full volunteer station.

The only other station which has full paramedics is Kalgoorlie after they had an increase in paramedic numbers earlier this year, but they still work with volunteers whenever vols are available. Therefore ideally running 2 trucks.
Outside the metro area Kalgoorlie is the busiest station, the ED at Kal also has that tag, no wonder the locals are well pissed the promised upgrade to the hosp has been put on the back burner again.

Markmywords wrote:Ambul8 cheers for those stats

Are australind all vollie or vollie/paid ?

Im right to belive there are no vollies at bunbury anymore ? and havent been for a while ?

did u get my Pvt about sending u the stats in full?

Cheers just replied haha bit slack on remembering to check the inbox.

Ambul8, thanks heaps for those stats. It's good to see where all the work is. I would see probably 15 patient transfers on average per day where I work... Do the full stats indicate how many P1's or PT's there are? Sometimes we can have no P1's incoming, other times we can have 5 in a 3 hr period

Also, some of those figures (I would assume... ) would include calls from other centres to do transfers (e.g. Serpentine called in for a Rocky job as they are already on a call), would they not?

Your Welcome Chicky

The stats are the totals of P1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 jobs that the crews do. Regardless of where the job is and where the crew was when they got the job.

Interhospital transfers can be all priorities p1-5, and there is no published stats on the breakdown of the call types.

If I am assuming correctly - RKDH? EN, RN, CN, CNS??

Ambul8, how about yourself ap/vao/ao/comms??