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’l...

This blog post was written by Matt Green, a paramedic for an NHS Trust. Follow him on Twitter @MLG1611Mid-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 learn ...

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...

This blog post was written by Matt Green, a paramedic for an NHS Trust. Follow him on Twitter @MLG1611The Trauma Care 2017 conference (@TraumaCareUK) was held at Staffordshire’s Yarnfield Park 15-18 March.In total, there were over 26 conference streams and an incredible 200 speakers! Hundreds, if not thousands, of delegates included pre-hospital and in-hospital clinicians, f...

Medic Now, the UK’s leading recruitment agency for ambulance professionals, has been awarded a place on the new National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS. Being awarded a place on Lot 1 and 2 of the National Clinical Staffing Framework, developed for the NHS by the NHS Collaborative Procurement Partnership 1 temporary, permanent and fixed term staff to clinical pos...

The recent heatwave has caused mounting pressure for A&E departments across the country. Medic Now specialises in deploying ambulance professionals across the emergency and urgent care settings. We're encouraging hospitals to look at integrating our Hospital Ambulance Liaison Officers (HALO) into their Emergency Department workforce to support patient care, especially during...

Matt Green, paramedic for Medic Now and the South Central Ambulance Service asks the Friday Frontline Question. Follow him on Twitter @mlg1611  I really enjoy leaving patients at home. There is an enormous professional satisfaction in responding to a 999 call, providing a thorough assessment and formulating a good discharge plan to leave the patient in the comfort of thei...

This week, we’re chatting to Francine Barrow, a qualified paramedic for an NHS Trust. Francine’s entrepreneurial spirit recently prompted her to make a business venture out of her years of hard work by selling her homemade revision flashcards. Here we learn a bit more about Francine, her struggle to become a paramedic and her interesting sideline. How did you become...

​Do you know a qualified Paramedic or Paramedic Practitioner looking for work? Perhaps a family member, friend or a colleague in your current workplace is looking for additional work? Or more flexibility whilst working in the emergency care sector? One option open to them is to join us! As a Medic Now candidate, we believe that you will know the best candidates for the in...

Are you a potential candidate?  PTS required for Peel Island, Coniston Water.  We are looking for a dynamic student paramedic for a short-term contract in the North West of England.  This is an excellent opportunity for you to earn while you learn in an environment relevant to your career, working as an EM clinician and providing patient transport service for groups...

This week on our weekly tweetchat, we will be asking the paramedic community of Twitter to answer the following question: “How important is your appearance when carrying out your job?” It’s a contentious issue, and some of you may feel that your personal appearance has no bearing whatsoever on your ability to carry out your duties; you are of course highly-skilled, hig...

Matt Green, paramedic for Medic Now and the South Central Ambulance Service attended the College of Paramedics annual conference in York this week. Follow him on Twitter @mlg1611 On the 8th and 9th of March, the College of Paramedics (@ParamedicsUK) held their 2016 conference in York. Around 140 attended; predominantly NHS paramedics but student paramedics, emergency medi...

New Lease of Life for Return of Spontaneous Circulation - by Paramedic Matt Green PG Dip BSc (Hons) Cert HE MCPara M.L.Green@Live.co.uk @MLG1611 This post was first published on the @prehospitalecg sitehttp://www.prehospital.wordpress.com   The United Kingdom’s ambulance services are successfully restoring a pulse in more cardiac arrest victims than ever before and it’s a...

This post was first published on ' The Ramblings of a Graduate Paramedic' Blog by Saul Gaunt. You can follow him on Twitter @saulie10  It’s interesting, I never really thought about writing a blog before. Never really felt the need. I’m not someone who before now needed to write my emotions down. But this has one has stayed with me…. A little about me first. I’m a second ...

Alex Grant, student paramedic at Anglia Ruskin University and for the London Ambulance Service, shares his thoughts on this week's media coverage of the 'shared control room' proposal. In recent news there have been calls from the Home Office to reform the way emergency services collaborate and a published report has suggested a ‘Sledgehammer plan’. This refers to Police,...

This post was first published by Pocket me dic - a paramedic based in Canada. You can follow him on Twit ter@pocketmedicBC   Today I want to touch on two topics that go hand in hand: h appiness & stress. When I tell people I work as a paramedic, they automatically relate to the job as being stressful. That is true. They often relate to stress as a paramedic from the ca...

​On Thursday, we took delivery of our brand new Driver Training Unit - isn't it beautiful? It's a LWB Fiat Ducato Crew Cab, fully-fitted out with a state-of-the-art mobile clinical assesment centre. We'll be using it for driver assessments for all our new recruits and for driving courses in the new year. We also decided it needed a name and asked our friends and follow...

Alex Grant, student paramedic at Anglia Ruskin University and for the London Ambulance Service, shares his thoughts on last week's media coverage of the London Ambulance Service. In recent news you may have seen headlines such as “London Ambulance Service put into special measures” (The Independent) and “London Ambulance Service (LAS) rated inadequate by inspectors” (BB...

Phil Goodway, a HART paramedic for the South West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, blogs about the standardisation of skill sets across the UK...  Picture the scene: a serious head-on car vs car RTC. The incident involves four casualties, all with polytrauma; no HEMS, no BASICS attend but ambulances from three different Trusts arrive. Imagine now that three of the patients ha...