The ambulance care in the Netherlands is under pressure. The number of emergency patients rises very quickly, and that is hardly taken care of by the adoption of additional staff.
Ambulances are in 17 of the 24 regions more frequently than allowed late in an emergency, such as a heart attack.
This reports NRC.
To in case of emergency to comply with the agreed time limits make increasing use of ambulance services, police, fire and citizen volunteers, who are the first to be sent to a patient. In the busiest ambulance region, Amsterdam, increases the number of incoming phone calls on the emergency room so strong that employees regularly fail to within the standard of 2 minutes an ambulance on path.
This is the result of internal policy documents, interviews with those involved and the recently released annual analysis of the sector by the National Institute for public health and the environment
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