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The woman is dressed like a Flight attendant and and the man is dressed like a pilot

At Raigmore hospital in Inverness there were 19 in a queue on either Monday or Tuesday morning. Ambulances from the Isle of Skye had to wait hours to be seen and that’s after a 3 hour journey just to get there and then there’s the trip home. Often they get lots of calls while they’re in and around Inverness too - all due to lack of staff/lack of beds in the hospital. It’s nuts.

The man in the video is my father. He retired 9 years ago. Fit, healthy and very happy :-)

and windscreen wash

No paramedics in those days. I was already an adult at the time the this footage, and now 52!

@@angelacooper2661 In truth not much equipment has changed, defibrilation which came in wide mid 80`s was one of the biggest changes to see a marked improvement in patient survival. There are more drugs now but you would be suprised how its the basics that saves lives in reality. They were paramedics back then and highly trained, it just a long time for the UK to start using the term officially and to register them with a professional body like HCPC. Even in 80`s our ambulance staff were amoung the best trained in the world. Ambulance crews in London started using IV`s way back in the early 70`s, that is a suprise to many.

I joined our ambulance as an honorary in 1988, then full time in 1998. The changes over the decades have been monumental, and it's still going!

@@damian-795 Here in Australia Victoria was the first to introduce paramedics with the introduction of Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance officers (MICA) in about 1972ish. Thanks to sharing of training and skills between the UK and Australia over the decades we have world class paramedics here. I think the Brits are taking an interest in our full pack plasma infusion and field amputation procedures. Oddly enough our High Acuity Paramedic training comes from the pages of London HEMS. I recall when we had "Paramedics" which were ALS and us BLS ambulance officers. We pushed for morphine at AO level, and our Health Department said only paramedics could carry S8 drugs. Within 6 months we'd done an ALS module and were all "Paramedics", either Advanced Care or Intensive Care. I think when I started, we had the HP defibs, and probably a dozen drugs. Now we're all 12 lead trained, and even at Advanced Care level have some 60 drugs at our disposal. I'm sure the UK would be similar.

It's not edited, they've just stuck the camera out the open skylight.

@@JoeStudd96 You are most likely right. I don't think the Hanlon's had opening skylights like that but my dad was on those at the time so I shall ask him.

@@musmodtos If it didn't open, maybe they just removed it completely for the shoot?

You're lucky. In Queensland Australia we used the Transit for patient transport or in country towns as an on-call vehicle. Ours were the 2.5 turbo diesel. Used as an emergency vehicle they were the most useless pieces of crap to have had the words "AMBULANCE" applied to them. The main emergency response ambulances then were the 351 cid (5.8L) petrol V8 F-250s and then the 7.3L turbo diesel F-250s and F-350s which I miss. The 6-cylinder Mercedes Sprinters aren't as much fun. We also had a Holden Commodore station wagon with the police specs and the 5.0L motor as a duty officer response unit. Now that was fun to drive on a priority job.

Yes, this was mid-Thatcher.

Entonox is 50% Nitrous Oxide. It has 50% oxygen.

I know that Einstein, I worked on the service for long enough. A blue cylinder is Entonox and isn't administered as oxygen just because it's a 50/50 mix. My point is a black and white cylinder back then was oxygen, that is clearly a blue cylinder but they state it is oxygen. Was a tongue in cheek comment, it's like calling atrovent, adrenaline. Both drugs but you wouldn't administer them because they both start with 'A'

@@ianalton3095 Roger that Mr. Hawkins. I had no idea whether you were in the job or some kid aspiring to be an ambo. Then again, could've been the way I read it. Cheers