My problem... Well, to start off the families involved have had nine months in which to arrange how to get to hospital. With labour, especially for the first child, the process is very slow - with conractions at 10 minutes apart, you've probably got well over an hour to get to hospital. You will often get the partners (not husbands these people, no they are always 'partners') following you in their private car... This woman in particular was walking around with no signs of pain saying "I'm having a contraction", there is a minicab office 50 yards away, and the route to walk is shorter than the route we had to take by road. We are mainly used because people don't want to pay for a minicab. I'm more than happy to go to people who's labour has snuck up on them, those people who have very quick labours - I'm fine with delivering babies in the home/back of the car, but I dislike a 999 emergency ambulance being used for a taxi ride. Imagine if you will your mother suffering a heart attack, and the reason why an ambulance is not there is because someone can't be bothered to call a cab/get driven by their partner/family. Lots of people can do it right, but as usual it's the idiots that I get called to. (And I get sent on them just as I'm sitting down for a cup of tea...)