[Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council.

  • Shropshire Council
Date:
1952
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Credit: [Report 1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Salop / Shropshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    49/106 (page 47)
    The figures in the table on page 46, expressed in terms of full-time personnel employed on a 44-hour week without overtime or stand-by duties, give the table below:— Establishment of Ambulance Service Personnel on 31st December Full-time Part-time (in terms of full-time) Total Authorised j • Year Drivers Attendants Drivers Attendants Drivers Attendants Full-time M. M. F. M. M. i F. M. M. F. Drivers Attendants 1951 20 4 5 8 2 4 28 6 9 35 25 1952 23 4 5 1 1 7 2 i 5 I 30 6 10 36 25 Work Performed.—During 1951 it appeared that the demands upon the Ambulance Service were becoming stabilised, but the assumption was premature and during 1952, despite a careful control of the use of the Service, there was again an increase in the amount of work. Searching inquiry is instituted whenever there is any suggestion of misuse, but the cases of misuse confirmed are a very small proportion of the cases carried. Careful co-ordination of journeys, referred to in the report for 1951, continued to effect reduction in the average mileage per patient carried, as shown in the following table:— Patients Carried and Mileage Covered Mileage Year Patients Mileage per Patient 1949 21,926 622,045 28.4 1950 30,434 740,559 24.3 1951 34,476 730,124 21.2 1952 1 41,250 783,717 19.0 The particulars of the work undertaken each month during 1952 by the County Ambulance Service are given in the table on page 48, together with comparative figures for the previous year. The distribution of this work between ambulances and sitting-case cars is illustrated in the table below — Miles Travelled by Ambulances and Cars 1951 1952 I Journeys Patients Mileage Journeys Patients Mileage , Ambulances .. 1 Sitting-case Cars:— 13,886 20,613 399,382 14,044 23,706 426,423 ' County Council 6,821 10,781 244,508 8,902 15,517 304,108 I No. 27 H.M.C. .. 451 585 6,222 136 216 1,569 i 1 W.V.S. 2,001 2,497 80,012 1,319 1,811 51,617 : Total 23,159 34,476 730,124 24,401 41,250 783,717 t