January 7th, 2012 by Editor | No Comments
The following commentary appeared on The Spectator website on 7/1/12. Pretty damning stuff, but Mr Massie needs to get some facts straight – it’s not a tea break for a start, it’s an unpaid 30 minute break and the only break most crews get in a 12 hour shift. Anyway, read the article and consider leaving a comment on The Spectator site or @alexmassie on Twitter perhaps…
I know no-one is allowed to say that public sector workers are “cosseted”. And of course no-one can ever say anything nasty about anyone who works in the emergency services. Salt of the earth types, heroically serving the public good each and every one of them. We scarcely deserve these Little Jesuses, don’t you know?
That’s the official line. The truth is a little different. Some of the time anyway. Some people would rather let people die than interrupt their tea-break. Yes they would. Really…
Read the full article – The Spectator
June 11th, 2011 by Editor | No Comments
A paramedic who recently lost the sight in one eye following a freak accident has been told he can no longer drive operationally despite the DVLA allowing him to continue driving without any restrictions.
Do you know of any ambulance staff (or police and fire service for that matter) who have a similar visual impairment but are still working operationally?
ParamedicUK would like to get in contact with anyone who can help this paramedic build a case to bring to his employers so that he can continue to do the job he loves and has done for over a 15 years.
If you have any information you would like to share with us please use the contact page to send us an email. Thank you for your help.
July 9th, 2009 by Editor | 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.
Read the entire article…
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