On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:07:00 +0100, Paul Terry
wrote:

In message
, CJB
writes

they have no medical facilities at Paddington Underground, not even a
SM's room (or whatever). Neither did they say why the staff have not
had stroke FAST training.

The moral: don't fall ill on the Undergound.

It's equally unwise to fall ill while driving a car or riding a bus. But
I agree that the LU staff seemed poorly prepared to help.

Actually, it can even be unwise to fall ill in a hospital, as my mother
did when visiting a relative in an internationally famous UK specialist
cancer hospital - "best to drive her to the general hospital up the
road, as we don't have the equipment or expertise here for what might be
meningitis" I was told

Not like when I used to work in a hospital in London when one of the
porters had a heart attack in the pub over the road one lunchtime and
the cardiac team and their trolley was sent out of the back door of
the hospital to deal with it.