Phil Goodway, a HART paramedic for the South West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, blogs about the standardisation of skill sets across the UK... Picture the scene: a serious head-on car vs car RTC. The incident involves four casualties, all with polytrauma; no HEMS, no BASICS attend but ambulances from three different Trusts arrive. Imagine now that three of the patients ha...
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Should skill sets be standardised across all trusts?
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Should UK firefighters have to respond to medical emergencies?
Following on from last week's article in the Guardian - Asking firefighters to be paramedics during a time of cuts is dangerous - Ralph Chadkirk, paramedic for the London Ambulance Service, shares his thoughts on the subject of co-responding to medical emergencies... In 2001, the Fire Brigade’s Union determined that “all FBU members… shall not participate in any proposed ...
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#MedChat on Twitter
Back in June, we saw an opportunity to bring together the ambulance and paramedic community of Twitter for a weekly online pow-wow... #MedChat takes place every Thursday evening at 8pm UK time on Twitter. Each week we host an hour’s chat based around a different topic related to paramedic life and paramedicine. Recent topics have included the adrenaline trial, CPD, legal...
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