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999 crews to lose ‘health and safety’ 20/06/10 | No Comments

Emergency services workers will no longer be subject to health and safety legislation in a move that could save lives.
What Is First Aid? What is the Recovery Position? 15/06/09 | No Comments

Globally, millions of people die each year as a result of accidents or serious injury. First Aid should be part of the school curriculum
WHO declares swine flu pandemic 11/06/09 | No Comments

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a global flu pandemic after holding an emergency meeting
US: Role of EMTs in executions criticized 19/05/09 | 6 Comments

“We have never used any doctors or nurses in the process, and we wouldn’t want to do that because it conflicts with any oath they have taken as it relates to preserving lives”

Ambulance trust status is ‘unnecessary’

A presentation on East Midlands Ambulance Service’s bid to gain foundation trust status got a mixed response from councillors

Tragic 999 patient was not an ‘emergency’

09/07/09 | No Comments

A coroner has labelled the ambulance service system ‘daft’ following the death of a pensioner

No morphine and a six-hour wait for ambulance

09/07/09 | No Comments

A woman endured a night of excruciating pain after shattering her leg in a fall – because an ambulance did not come for six-and-a-half hours

Ambulance crew injured en route to emergency

09/07/09 | 1 Comment

Paramedics needed hospital treatment after they were involved in a collision while en route to an emergency call

Ambulance bosses ‘failed to keep promise’ claim

09/07/09 | No Comments

Ambulance bosses failed to keep a promise to allow paramedics more flexibility over where to take patients for treatment

Police car and ambulance in smash

09/07/09 | No Comments

A policeman was cut out of his car after a high-speed collision with an ambulance on its way to an emergency in Hampstead

Air Ambulance Card to Provide Medical Evacuation Worldwide

07/07/09 | 1 Comment

Air Ambulance Card® provides travelers with prepaid hospital-to-hospital air ambulance service, domestically and abroad.

US: Boy allegedly steals from ambulance as mom treated

02/07/09 | No Comments

A boy was arrested over the weekend on charges of stealing from an ambulance while paramedics were treating his mother

Mexico: Criminals blow up ambulance to kill injured rival

19/06/09 | No Comments

A group of armed men blew up an ambulance, apparently with a grenade, to kill a rival who was being transferred from one hospital to another

Australia: Flu ‘may tip pandemic’

10/06/09 | No Comments

A sharp increase in swine flu cases in Australia may mean the infection has become a pandemic, the World Health Organization say

US: Policeman Fights Paramedics With Patient In Ambulance

31/05/09 | 1 Comment

Oklahoma’s Tulsa World newspaper reports on a fight between a brown-shirted highway patrol officer, who has pulled over an ambulance that was racing a patient to hospital, and the paramedic

Zambia: Scientists identify new lethal virus in Africa

31/05/09 | No Comments

A paramedic in Lusaka who became sick, was transported to Johannesburg and died. The three others infected were health care workers in Johannesburg

Corporate times in the non-corporate public sector

09/07/09 | 2 Comments

Regular ParamedicUK contributor Scoot McEye writes this month about Foundation Trust status.

Following the careerist obsession of aspirational public sector managers desperate to tick boxes and drive ambulance services across the UK towards Foundation Trust status at any cost we should not forget that these objectives work well on paper but in reality the very people who experience the cost and implications of such implementation have not been consulted. On closer examination moderacy exists amongst those at the front line, their voices silenced and their opinions trodden upon by a filthy senior management intent on employing the dirty PR-based window-dressing tactics more usually associated with politicians.

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