Entries from May 2009

Cumbrian paramedic retiring after 40 years helping to save lives

May 27th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Paramedic Eric Martin, who has spent more than 40 years saving lives, is hanging up his uniform at the end of the month


Casualty fan 7 saves brother with TV technique

May 27th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

I want to be a paramedic because you get to drive an ambulance and bring the trolley in


“Enormous pressure” call on failing ambulance bosses

May 27th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

South Central Ambulance Service must address “serious concerns” among the public over response times that are not hitting national targets


Emergency services learn how to cope with chemical warfare

May 27th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

In the event of a nuclear leak or chemical warfare, the multi-agency decontamination procedure would be implemented in a bid to reduce cross-contamination and treat affected patients quickly without risk to staff


Training to help health staff handle obese patients

May 27th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Training to help health staff handle obese patients

Only a few years ago, a patient who weighed 47 stones had to travel on the floor of the ambulance and be brought into hospital on a tarpaulin because they were too heavy for the ambulance trolley


Residents’ anger at ambulance site plan

May 26th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Angry residents are fighting plans to site a stand-by ambulance station just yards from their homes


Fiji: Ambulance needed

May 26th, 2009 by Editor | 1 Comment

Vunidawa Hospital in Naitasiri, Fiji needs more vehicles, including an ambulance


Street paramedic plan to treat binge-drinkers

May 26th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Binge-drinkers who get into fights or fall over and hurt themselves will soon have their own street paramedic to tend their injuries – volunteers please?


A night of drunken shame on Scotland’s emergency frontline

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | 1 Comment

We hear reports of drunks kicking off in police cells and A&E departments and assaulting police officers and nursing staff, but what about the ambulance staff who are often first on the scene?


UNISON: Ambulance crews being attacked and abused

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

UNISON: Ambulance crews being attacked and abused

Dozens of front-line ambulance crews are being attacked or verbally abused while trying to do their job






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