H1N1 swine flu attacks the respiratory system in a more sustained way than the standard seasonal virus, research in animals shows

Smart Pod’, ideas for the ambulance of the future – was unveiled to the NHS and the healthcare industry at the NHS Innovation Expo in London

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

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

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

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

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

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

A new non-emergency NHS number could be introduced across England, it has been announced. The Department of Health said the number would provide an alternative to 999 in cases where people do not need to go to A&E

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.

The advantage lies in the ‘patient experience’. This we know to be a singular happening and despite a loud but solitary voice little is created beyond a minor ripple in the waters of progression and alas our public sector directors continue to rape what was fought for over many years. They have seen the future and the future is privatisation. It should be our mission to disrupt their otherwise effortless attempts to ensure a personal profit and foothold in such ventures. Despite Aneurin Bevan’s demise in the hearts and minds of such avaricious miscreants his work and that of all those who dreamt of social, healthcare and welfare provision managed to provide a platform for the truly hopeless to rise through and above such altruism and redefine it as something so monstrously self-serving. Too often our senior managers and moderate union representatives declare that times have changed and we need to be geared up and ready for the inevitable corporate approach requisite in the 21st century. Lies, more lies and filthier lies to come from partly-educated scum.

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