Sounds like a rough few days all round - know what you mean about hospital transfers - as an ex ITU nurse now residing in occupational health via elderly rehab (interesting career path) it used to drive ME nuts when the docs ordered transport and we knew we were at least 30 minutes away from being ready to go. IMHO it stems from a lack of trust that if the hospital request an urgent transport they get one within 5-10 minutes. Maybe the higher ups need to spend some of their time building that trust so that the lower downs don't get dumped on all the time. And on a different note - I remember being in the front doing a blue light transfer and being bloody terrified about the way that the general public don't see/respond to ambulances with blues/twos on so WELL DONE TOM and all for doing a very hard job very well.