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Vodden's attempt to raise ACP issue quashed
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
During its most recent meeting,
North Huron Township council
members supported Huron County
Council's decision to scrap the
advanced care paramedic (ACP)
program.
Councillor Brock Vodden
requested that his fellow council
members consider sending a letter to
the county to reinstate the program,
however his motion found no
support.
"I think it's an extremely valuable
program," Vodden said. "I have had
personal experience with it myself.
It's a very worthwhile program we
need and it has to do with saving
lives."
Reeve Neil Vincent, North
Huron's representative on the Huron
County Council, said the decision
was not one that was made quickly
or lightly.
"This issue is not something new
as it has been on the county council
table since 2013," he said. "In the
last 18 months we've had eight in -
camera sessions on this subject
alone."
Vincent said he couldn't divulge
the information from those
meetings, but did say that the "scope
of practice of the county's primary
care paramedics (PCPs) is
expanding all the time. Vincent said
the ACPs weren't meeting the
original mandate of the program.
"Basically, the ACPs, the way they
are scheduled, they are scheduled
from Wingham, Goderich, Clinton
and Exeter as the bigger hospitals,"
he said, adding that it's great to have
people with that training. "In 2003,
however, the county moved to train
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and have ACPs for the outlying
stations where they were further
away from the hospital, where it was
deemed more important to provide
advanced care in comparison to
getting a person to the proper care in
a hospital"
Vincent explained that two-thirds
of Huron County Council would
need to vote to bring the issue back
to the table before explaining that
Huron County's decision wasn't a
financial one.
"PCPs sometimes lose patients,"
he said. "ACPs sometimes lose
patients and sometimes doctors do as
well. [County council] didn't look at
money, they put an extra staffed
ambulance on to the road... and
positioning six ambulance in the
county in comparison to five at a
time should provide approximately a
four -minute -quicker response time.
That's where county council really
looked at it."
Vodden said his motion was to ask
Huron County Council to reconsider
its decision, and said Vincent wasn't
obliged to be in agreement, but he
felt the only way to have council's
voice heard was to write a letter
explaining its stance. Council,
however, didn't agree with Vodden.
Councillor Bill Knott said he took
the time to read the documents that
were made available to the public
and said he felt the right decision
had been made. He also said the
issue had been debated long enough
and that it should be left alone.
Deputy -Reeve James Campbell
said he had read in local media
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sources that some ACPs agreed with
the decision.
In response, Vodden requested a
recorded vote on his motion to write
a letter to Huron County Council
asking them to reconsider the issue.
Vodden and Councillor Trevor Seip
voted yes while all other council
members voted no, defeating the
motion.
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2016 Council and Committee Meeting Schedule
Town Hall Public Meeting 7:00 p.m.
Location: Emergency Services Training Centre
Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Regular Council Meetings 7:00 p.m.
Location: North Huron Council Chambers
Dates:
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Monday, October 3
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