I worked on an ambulance a couple of weeks ago. We arrived at the house to find an elderly woman called Mary, experiencing abdominal pains. We introduced ourselves and discovered that she had quite a complicated medical history. We examined her and performed all her physical observations as well as a 12-lead ECG before leaving…

It was given as “police on scene, male stabbing; no further details”. The call came in on a beautiful, warm summer evening but no sooner had I started to drive there when the heavens opened. The wipers were in overdrive trying to keep my screen clear for the high speed, blue-light journey. I put my…

As you may know I have given talks to secondary schools as part of the work I do with the Uncut Project but more recently I have been asked to talk to young offenders about the dangers of knife crime. These young people have been found in possession of a weapon and they had been…

If I told you that while I was on duty recently I was called out to a drunk driver involved in a road traffic accident, I am guessing that you would have little sympathy. Witnesses say he was weaving along the road and eventually clipped a bollard before mounting the pavement and ploughing head-on into…