I have told by several people  that are carers, that the ambulance service 
in Dorset  will no longer  lift a fallen relative.They will come out to 
assess the situation, but if the person is not injured, and in no danger 
they will leave them on the floor! this has actually happened.The person 
concerned phoned the arrear headquarters at St leonards ,Dorset. and was 
told than the paramedics were doing the correct thing.I also spoke to an 
ambulance driver that was calling here at this sheltered home ,and he  said 
that these places should make arrangements of there own to lift .The 
resident warden is not allowed to lift anyone , and has always relied on the 
ambulances service to come out and lift the resident back up into there 
chair or bed, and also that an elderly  carer looking after there partner 
should make arrangements with there families to come and lift after the the 
ambulance has left! what will properly happen is that carers will not bother 
to call the ambulance service  at all, and try to lift there relatives up 
and possibly worsen a fractured femur and injure themselves .The whole 
situation unbelievable.!!!  is this the beginning of privatising and 
charging the patients to lift? I have not heard anything about this on the 
local T/V or radio.   Is this the same in other counties ....cas