An A&E nurse is raising money to buy an ambulance to drive stranded coronavirus patients home from hospital. With the ambulance service under pressure and public transport significantly reduced, many covid-19 patients without their own cars are struggling to get home after being discharged.
So John Gimour, a nurse at Tameside Hospital, is raising £10,000 to buy and run a 14-year-old, ex-NHS ambulance which is being sold off by a private ambulance fleet in Gloucester to transport the patients home.
It will be run by doctors, nurses, porters and other hospital staff at Tameside who have offered to give up what little free time they currently have to volunteer.