Following representations by local residents, councillors and Tom Levitt MP along with concerns in the local press, the Tameside and Glossop Primary Care Trust has held further discussions with the North West Ambulance Services and has revered the decision to relocate the ambulance currently based at Glossop to Dukinfield.
This means that the existing level of service will be retained along with the new addition of the car based Emergency Care Practitioner who will from 9.00am until 5.00pm on Weekdays operate within the Glossopdale area and is trained to offer a wide range of services including assessment, treatment and diagnosis at point of first contact. They will also be able to undertake basic procedures in the patients own home and can prescribe a wide range of medicines.
This should mean from details provided by the PCT that more Glossopdale residents with urgent, but not life-threatening, conditions will be treated at home rather than being taken to hospital meaning that a potentially long wait at casualty can be avoided.
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