The last few days have been some of the busiest shifts that I have ever worked and there is no sign of them letting up yet.

In more than one hospital in the same shift I heard receptionists having to educate the public and explain that Accident and Emergency was for Accidents and Emergencies and that [...]

A very short blog post to say that Mrs Paramedic Blogger emailed me a link to an article on the BBC Website -
Call for 999 ambulance response targets rethink
I don’t think I could put it any better than she did….

The BBC have recently done a story on a 92 year old lady who had to wait 6 hours for an ambulance following having a stroke.
Watch the video below or visit the BBC to read the article for yourself…..

before we discuss a few of the “facts” in this article, I will start by saying that [...]

In the last month the BBC have reported on 5 different incidents where an Ambulance Service Vehicle has been involved in a Road Traffic Accident/Incident/Collision (or what ever you want to call it).  Of the five incidents two of them resulted in three deaths….
The facts are simple….
Not only are ambulance personnel working harder due to [...]