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Comment Or the ambulance whose GPS antics took it - and I'm assuming a geographically challenged crew - miles out of their way. I was driving back to my quiet corner of southwest London on Saturday afternoon and passed Sandown Park race course, which I...
[24 Apr 2007]
Comment Ambulance services are also pathcy - and much cover is provided by private hospitals. I watch one of dispatchers sending out an ambulance to a snake bite victim in a serious condition. There's a crash, with two motorcyclists hurt.
[05 Mar 2007]
Comment Using MMS, those in accidents could transmit pictures of victims to help ambulance crews, or send videos of their location to help emergency workers track them down. The answer could lie in the grande dame of mobile services, MMS.
[22 Jan 2007]
Round-Up What if somebody has a heart attack and we need to ring an ambulance? What about going outside and calling an ambulance on a mobile phone? Or, how's about running out into the lobby waving your arms and shouting 'quick somebody call an ambulance...
[17 Mar 2006]
Round-Up But it seems likely 'Jesus' (you keep telling yourself its Jesus, friend) will be wearing a white coat and driving the kind of ambulance that has bars on the windows. When the Round-Up was growing up (.spare the jokes, now) US motorbike cop show...
[06 Aug 2004]
Round-Up Kamen told the Associated Press: "You build a car and it can be either be used as an ambulance or it can be used to drive your troops around. After learning his research paved the way for the creation of the atomic bomb, iconic astro-physicist...
[05 Dec 2003]
Comment The fire service has been facing ageing and obsolete equipment for some time yet only after the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the US did politicians realise that the police, fire and ambulance services all needed robust and...
[03 Jul 2003]
Comment The best-known example of this is the London Ambulance computer-aided dispatch system’s famous collapse of 1992. Ambulance service staff simply did not buy in to the new system, so it was no surprise when it became apparent it was not up to the job.
[14 Mar 2003]
Comment Similarly theatres and cinemas coped well in the past when they would use the landline to phone for an ambulance. A small victory was recorded today for all those opposed to mobile phones going off in public.
[15 Aug 2002]
Comment The precedent is the case of the London Ambulance Service who cut over to a computerised system running under Visual Basic 1.0 without even the most routine of introduction processes. One girl died when an ambulance was too late to save her as a...
[06 Sep 2001]
Comment A disgruntled doctor has got legal on the analysts who advised him. Nowadays, doctors can get sued for sneezing at the wrong time, so perhaps the pressure got to him. Anyway, he got his toes caught in the dot-com crunch, and now he wants someone to...
[05 Mar 2001]
Comment But still, the ambulance chasers are rubbing their hands together with glee at the prospect of more dot-com casualties to come. Meanwhile, Letsbuyit.com had a particularly fruity Yuletide, and we're not talking about the ingredients of their...
[04 Jan 2001]
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