The Ambulance In Front Is A .....
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Toyota" 
The cash starved NHS is hoping to raise funds by displying company logos on the ambulances.
Yes folks - according to Richard Allen is today's "MOS" - page 15 - Hants Ambulance Trust is revving up to find sponsorship for its 240 strong fleet and looking at deals of £250K to help the shortfall of £900K in government funding....
Out are the Hamlet cigar adverts, and booze adverts -
In are "reputable companies"
"Adverts will have to be discreet" says the Trust's Director of Finance who hopes to start this when as ambulances are replaced.
The Department of Health says that Ambulance Trusts are free to make their own decisions on the scheme but warned that the adverts should not undermine the integrity of the NHS.
Hmmms. I was going to place this on Gerneral Gassing but decided it should be here.
Carrying the NHS logo and clear AMBULANCE markings denote to all members of the public - be they in cars, panic braking in front of mungo, on foot, on pushbike, etc, that this is an emergency vehicle responding to a health relate matter and that the service is being provided in line with NHS values and in keeping with a service funded by the public purse
Adverts such as for starts the one in this paper:
Barclaycard: For life's little emergencies
The Ambulance in front is a Toyota
Commercial Union: We won't make a drama out of a crisis
Your pills - courtesy of Wild KitEKats
have a broken leg - have a Kit-kat
Complete with the relevant firm's livery will just add to the general confusion on the roads....
What next?
>>> Edited by Mad Moggie on Sunday 12th September 15:50
The cash starved NHS is hoping to raise funds by displying company logos on the ambulances.
Yes folks - according to Richard Allen is today's "MOS" - page 15 - Hants Ambulance Trust is revving up to find sponsorship for its 240 strong fleet and looking at deals of £250K to help the shortfall of £900K in government funding....
Out are the Hamlet cigar adverts, and booze adverts -
In are "reputable companies"
"Adverts will have to be discreet" says the Trust's Director of Finance who hopes to start this when as ambulances are replaced.
The Department of Health says that Ambulance Trusts are free to make their own decisions on the scheme but warned that the adverts should not undermine the integrity of the NHS.
Hmmms. I was going to place this on Gerneral Gassing but decided it should be here.
Carrying the NHS logo and clear AMBULANCE markings denote to all members of the public - be they in cars, panic braking in front of mungo, on foot, on pushbike, etc, that this is an emergency vehicle responding to a health relate matter and that the service is being provided in line with NHS values and in keeping with a service funded by the public purse
Adverts such as for starts the one in this paper:
Barclaycard: For life's little emergencies
The Ambulance in front is a Toyota
Commercial Union: We won't make a drama out of a crisis
Your pills - courtesy of Wild KitEKats
have a broken leg - have a Kit-kat
Complete with the relevant firm's livery will just add to the general confusion on the roads....
What next?
>>> Edited by Mad Moggie on Sunday 12th September 15:50
I have said to my bosse's "if the trust puts adverts on the side of the vehicles I will transfer out to a ambo service that is ot so strapped for cash"
RANT MODE ON
I mean bloddy hell I am paid to drive and ambulance and save lives not to drive a
billboard, we are going to look like a right bunch of twats, how rediculas aare we going to look driving a bright yellow blood bus with bloody adverts plastered accross the sides, watch out surry hear I come
RANT MODE OFF
what do you guys out there in PH land think of this move
RANT MODE ON
I mean bloddy hell I am paid to drive and ambulance and save lives not to drive a
billboard, we are going to look like a right bunch of twats, how rediculas aare we going to look driving a bright yellow blood bus with bloody adverts plastered accross the sides, watch out surry hear I come RANT MODE OFF
what do you guys out there in PH land think of this move
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