NHS spending thousands on drunks and malingerers The tragedy of the modern NHS is that the wartime generation, the one that defeated Hitler, never complained and never called an ambulance, is dying out.
They are being replaced by the ‘Me’ generation — products of a cradle-to-grave welfare state who would happily call an ambulance because they have scratched a finger opening their dole cheque. And as an ambulance driver, I see both types, and the entire spectrum in between.
The patients who call us out most often are known in the business as ‘frequent flyers’. Each area has its regulars, who might call every day. One elderly lady, well known to all the call-handlers at our NHS Trust, has racked up £400,000 of ambulance visits in just a few years. The Daily Mail
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