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When Thomas chose to become an IHCD Technician, he had no idea how much his view on the emergency services would change. What made you want to take on an IHCD Technician job? I chose to become an Emergency Ambulance Technician because I wanted a job with fulfilment. In my previous job, it just felt like a daily grind that never changes, whereas this job is dynamic and varied...

Great news! #MedChat - our weekly tweetchat - will be welcoming a new sponsor this week: SP Services: the UK's leading supplier of medical equipment. SP Services supply everything from basic first aid kits and defibs to crisis response kits and ambulance equipment and they've been doing it successfully for the past 28 years. They're the perfect partner to join the #MedChat c...

In this article, where we focus on influential people who are helping to shape the profession, we feature David Cranmer who is the CEO of Medic Now, a specialist recruitment agency providing ambulance professionals to the NHS and private sector on a temporary and permanent basis. What is your professional background? I began my career in management consultancy - helping clie...

Charlie Ballam | My life as a locum paramedic Can you give a brief outline of your career to date? I qualified as a paramedic in 2009 and worked full time for the NHS for 2 years in Dorset. I then moved to Australia for a year and a half, where I worked as a remote area medic. Upon my return to the UK, I trained as an Offshore Medic and split my work between offshore deploym...

In case you missed the news, Katie Price is considering a career change: she wants to train as a paramedic. Has she got what it takes? Well, maybe. Here’s why... Katie’s got five kids, which makes her a solid multi-tasker. Being a mother – let alone to five children – means she’s used to juggling different needs and most of all, remaining calm under pressure. She’ll already ...

This blog post was written by Matt Green, a paramedic for an NHS Trust. Follow him on Twitter @MLG1611 Mid-way through the Sunday shift, the mobile data terminal alerts you and Paramedic Maureen to a `64 year old male Patient keeps falling and can’t get up`. Whilst calls for fallen patients are common (you’ve already done three that shift), Maureen comments this patient is a...

Thanks to the @PreHospECG team for supplying the questions for this week's #MedChat special on ECG interpretation. If you missed it, sloped off half-way through, or just want to use these questions for your own purposes, here they are - Q1 - What do you find most challenging about ECG interpretation and why? Q2 - What useful resources and/or techniques have helped you to lea...

​Can you believe it’s been nearly two years since we started #MedChat, our weekly tweetchat? We’ve come a long way, thanks to the support of the ambulance community of Twitter who tune in every Thursday night at 8pm to discuss one topic or another. With that in mind, we’ve been looking back over the topics we’ve already covered… perhaps it’s time to revisit some? If you have...

This blog post was written by Matt Green, a paramedic for an NHS Trust. Follow him on Twitter @MLG1611 I have done between 20-30 careers fairs and open days to promote the ambulance service. Some events have attracted school leavers and young university applicants, whereas others have attracted a much broader range of (older) people with much more life experience who also ha...

The new standardised purple uniform for use by UK ambulance trusts rolls out today. The Paramedic Uniform Committee of England (PUCE), which was formed last year, will monitor the success of the core uniform, assist in the development of future specifications, seek out opportunities for standardisation and rationalisation and work with fashion houses across the UK to source ...