I am a CR in a 'rural' community (as rural as you can get in the south east) and the gestimated general respond time of an ambulance is at least 15minutes and often much, much longer, where we generally get there within 5minutes. A team of 10 people, many with other relevant skills and experiences maintain more or less 24 hour cover for our village and many surrounding villages. In the last year we have responded to around 90 calls and the vast majority was 'genuine'. I know your comment was not criticising our work, but I was wondering if anyone does have any thoughts on a subject that has worried some of us. If CRs make the ORCON statistics look good, are we shooting ourselves in the foot, and causing the powers that decide on how much funding and/or where resources get distributed, to direct these elsewhere?