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This blog post was written by Matt Green, a paramedic for an NHS Trust. Follow him on Twitter @MLG1611 The 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,...

"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together." We’re celebrating our 5th birthday today, so I just want to say thank you to all our hard-working ambulance professionals and loyal clients for making this journey happen. On 12th March 2012, I took a leap of faith and started MedicNow because I believed ambulance trusts and patients could be bett...

We stumbled upon this marvellous poem on Facebook. It was written by an anonymous LAS worker, explaining why she is proud to wear her 10 year service badge.... Not Just A Badge All the study and tests, the 'just do your best'. The stress, the fears and the hidden tears. The built up frustration. The long cold nights, and sleep deprivation. The no breaks and off lates. The tu...

Kirsty Elton is our Business Development Manager, a Yorkshire lass, and a vocal proponent of our Medicnow HALO teams… Known mostly for beautiful landscapes of green, dry stone walls, tea and of course our ability to chat to anyone... Yorkshire is definitely a beautiful place to live. What you may not know is that like the rest of the country, our Emergency Departments are ov...

This blog post was written by Matt Green, a paramedic for an NHS Trust, and originally published on the South East Health Education Blog . Follow him on Twitter @MLG1611 This case study looks at some of the airway complications in end of life care and clinical decision making in the context of a dying person. Also discussed are examples of techniques and medications a pre-ho...

Today is National Stress Awareness Day. Ambulance staff and paramedics know all too well the pressures associated with work-related stress, especially as strain on NHS services continues to take its toll. This post was written by Janos Baombe , consultant in emergency medicine, and published on the St. Emlyn's Blog . DISCLAIMER: the below tips are based on no evidence whatso...

Matt Green is a paramedic for an NHS Trust. Follow him on Twitter @MLG1611 “Time of death 1854 hours.” There. You said it. You ended someone’s life. You’re 21 years old, still living with your parents and barely an adult in many eyes but you’ve just welded one of the biggest emotional swords available. They are dead and it’s because you said so. You recently registered as a ...

If you’re thinking about joining Medic Now as part of a PTS team, or as an ECA, Technician or Paramedic, then our assessment days are a great opportunity to meet the team, ask questions and make sure that working for us will work for you. Join us for our next assessment day at Keele University on the 20th of September. If you are keen to find out ways that your career might ...

Ralph Chadkirk is a paramedic for an NHS Ambulance Trust. You can follow him on Twitter @rchadkirk It is inevitable that, at some point in their career, a healthcare professional will make a mistake. We are all human, and we all have the same fallibilities: tiredness, hunger, pressure and cognitive biases. In short, “to err is human”. We hope that if we do make a mistake the...

​Great news: we’ve teamed up with CPDme and MedTree for a fantastic #MedChat partnership. Your participation in our weekly tweetchat will now be officially recognised by CPDme. Here's how it works: If you’re a #MedChat participant, you’ll receive a specific code each week at the end of the discussion to access the CPDme system. Once there, simply fill in your name and email ...