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Decision Report 202000080

  • Case ref:
    202000080
  • Date:
    October 2020
  • Body:
    Scottish Ambulance Service
  • Sector:
    Health
  • Outcome:
    Not upheld, no recommendations
  • Subject:
    clinical treatment / diagnosis

Summary

C complained about the care and treatment provided to them by Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) when they called for an ambulance after they had bleeding following the removal of a lesion earlier that day.

We took independent advice from an appropriately qualified adviser. We found that the care and treatment provided to C by SAS was of a reasonable standard. C was given appropriate advice from the call handler, the ambulance was dispatched and arrived with C in a timely manner. We also found that the ambulance crew's assessment of C's wound was reasonable. Therefore, we did not uphold C's complaint.

Updated: October 21, 2020