Quote Originally Posted by islaydarkblue View Post
Humza Yousef’s solution to resolve the current ambulated crisis is for people throughout Scotland not to dial 999 in an emergency but to dial 111.
I believe the words were unless 'absolutely critical'.

I know 2 people that work in the Dundee call centre that handles and distributes 999 calls from all over the disUK. People dial 999 and ask for an ambulance because of things such as sore heads, hangovers, stubbed toes, dogs being sick, the list of ridiculous 999 calls asking for ambulances goes on and these calls need to stop, I suggest a £500 fine for every blatantly non emergency call made with the money being fed directly back to the ambulance service - they'll stop in no time.

A huge number of calls to the ambulance service are elderly people with dementia or mental health problems who just want to talk to someone or who think they're phoning cousin Molly. An ambulance can be tied up for hours just chatting to old Elsie about how her kids never visit now while old John lies on his kitchen floor with a broken hip.

I don't like Humza Yousef any more than you but I reckon he's right to ask people not to phone 999 unless it's a genuine emergency, maybe he worded it poorly (no surprise there) but surely even you realises he has a point?