Volunteer medics honoured for maginficent winter work
May 25th, 2009 | Published in UK News | 3 Comments
Volunteer ambulance workers have been honoured for their work.
Nine community first responders from Birmingham and the Black Country were among 40 people who received awards at the West Midlands Ambulance Service Annual Volunteers Awards.
Read full article: Birmingham Mail
May 25th, 2009at 20:34(#)
awards??!!! wahey. cant say what i want to say as would lower the tone of this excellent site – but – a wee thank you for those that do it day in day out wouldnt be so wrong, would it??
May 26th, 2009at 07:50(#)
To be fair, we get paid for doing it and these people do it out of some sense of community spirit.
Two community responders I know are now excellent techs and did it because they wanted to join the service – it looks good on the CV!
I agree with what you’re saying though, most Trust’s PR is total pants (just look at the press the fire service gets), the media generally treat us as the poor relation of the emergency services.
I trawl the news agencies most days to keep ParamedicUK up-to-date and get very frustrated when I read about how wonderful the police and/or fire were at an incident that we were probably 1st on-scene and dealt with the human wreckage.
June 10th, 2009at 14:09(#)
was not having a dig at the volunteers – far from it!
its the management of west mids im criticising…anything for a cheap PR stunt when their staff are still running round with some of the poorest vehcs/kit etc in the country.good for the volunteers, just saying, notice no mention of the guys who struggle on daily…