Emergency call to an old peoples home nearby, elderly male with alzeihmers, threatening to smash the place up….

…what made them decide an ambulance would be a good resource to send???

“Carers Leave Patient on Floor for over an Hour Illegally!” now that would be an interesting headline in a news paper, although we know it will more likely be “Ambulance takes an Hour to attend to Terminally ill man!”….
So why might we see a headline like this…..

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 [...]

Its my last shift before Christmas and its Very Very cold outside….  Its so cold outside that the polar bears are getting into the back of my ambulance to warm up!

We are called to a Motorcyclist who has had an accident due to the ice on the road. When we get there we are greeted [...]

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 [...]

Recently we were called to assist two PTS Crews (Three people in total) to move a “large” patient into his house. This patient fell into the Bariatric category of “large” – I had no idea that we transported people of this size….

The patient had been collected by the PTS Crew and was taken to a [...]

New blog, new domain name and maybe a new type of blog post….
The end of the degree course is in sight, I have been allowed back onto the road after nearly a year off of the road, and now maybe its time to see the end of my “Angry” posts and time to start being [...]

If ya have a spare hour its worth heading over to www.copycodethree.com to download or listen on-line to Tom Reynolds of Random Acts of Reality talking about how he started off in the NHS, and life and politics in London….