In response to requests from their commissioners, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS) has decided that they will no longer employ Emergency Care Practitioners (ECPs) as part of their workforce. Existing ECPs will be transitioned into suitable alternative employment, with the hope that they will contribute their varied skills in their new roles. Reflecting on…
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Join the Facebook group – So you want to be a Paramedic?
I created a facebook group – So you want to be a Paramedic? You can visit it by clicking on the image above or on the facebook logo in the top right hand corner of the site. In this post I talk about why I created it. After I wrote my book ‘999: True Stories…
Finding it stressful at the office? Just fake it.
We were called to an office for a man of about thirty years old. We arrived to find him lying on the floor amongst a maze of desks and chairs. Concerned colleagues were on hand to inform us that he was normally a fit and well man, but that day he had been feeling very…
Reflecting on New Years Eve 2009 – working at a treatment centre
With memories of the freezing cold that I had endured last New Year’s Eve still prominent in my mind, I wore four layers of clothing in preparation for the evening ahead. We sat in on the briefing with a hundred or so other staff from the LAS and St John’s Ambulance which was followed by…
Happy New Year
It’s that time of year again and I am looking forward to seeing in the New Year while working the night with my London Ambulance Service and St John Ambulance colleagues in a treatment centre in the centre of London. There are a few things that I can reliably predict for the evening. It will…
Merry Christmas to you all
Apologies to those of you who visited the site on Friday only to find no weekly update. You may have heard of the escalating amount of 999 calls we have received during the snowy period, and it really has been quite exhausting! I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. For those…
Hiding after a car crash
Ever seen the Thunderbirds trees that lean over to the side and then move back? How about Batman’s bush that collapses to allow him to join the road from the batcave which then pops back up to hide the path? When we receive a call for a road traffic collision (RTC) it isn’t usually too…
One Year On…
I have been looking back over some old posts and find it hard to believe that it has already been a year since the birth of my website. It hasn’t always been easy making the time to write the posts, but somehow I always seem to get there just in the nick of time. I…
Katie the Paramedic Book Signing
I had a wonderful time at the book signing in Waterstone’s. My daughter Katie helped me to sign copies of the books and she seemed to thoroughly enjoy every minute of it. It was just fantastic to see so many people come along to buy the book – even a couple of my lovely young…
Did I mention… Book signing and reading TOMORROW!
As I write this, I am wondering if I shall sleep at all tonight. I am thinking about the book signing tomorrow at Waterstone’s and I’m getting more than a little anxious; what if no one turns up? I’ll be sat there on my own … Well hopefully I can rely on my daughter Katie,…
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