Using Air Ambulances when not strictly called for?

[thatone1967]

I am working in a school today (doing I.T.) heard a low flying helicopter, looked out of the window, saw a helicopter circling to land.
It landed on the school playing field to ( I found out later) attend to a kid with a dislocated knee... Apparently no land ambulances were available at the time of the call...

I appreciate that it could not be helped, but.. having put a couple of quid in tin at their local newsagent to FUND the bloody thing, feel that my money has been (sort of) mis-spent....

Would they be able to bill the NHS for this... I am guessing not?

[thatone1967]

GSP said:

It may have only been diagnosed as a disclocated knee after the incident.

It may have looked like a badly factured leg, which if not sorted promptly can be cutting off blood circulation to the lower lef. Which can result in a lost limb if not straigtened quickly.

Was chatting with the site manager a short time ago... never any question of it being more serious than a "simple" dislocated knee.. Deployment of the air ambulance was entirely down to lack of availabilty of land ambulance...

[thatone1967]

scubadude said:

thatone1967 said:

Was chatting with the site manager a short time ago... never any question of it being more serious than a "simple" dislocated knee.. Deployment of the air ambulance was entirely down to lack of availabilty of land ambulance...

School "Site manager" Is that what they call Head Masters these days? (Or perhaps its a new word for Janitor?0 Either way sounds like a pimped job title for a job that never existed when I was at school...

No No No... they have a genuine school manager.. the head is far too busy filling out Ofsted reports...

[thatone1967]

mph1977 said:

site manager = head caretaker = man with big bunch of keys,some rudimentary ability with a toolbox and a pathological hatred of kids ...

Actually... she is a really pleasant lady who loves kids!