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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 th...

​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 ...

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 positi...

This post was first published on ' The Ramblings of a Graduate Paramedic ' Blog by Saul Gaunt. You can follow him on Twitter @saulie10  Ah, mental health, those two words that make health professionals cringe. Although, I really enjoy the effect you can have on people during these types of calls. Throughout my placements my interest in mental health has become greater and gr...

Our partners at The Academy of Professional Development have offered us two free places one of their Paediatric Urgent and Emergency Care (PUEC) Courses. This 2-day course, designed for paramedics and ambulance staff, will look in detail at the seriously ill or injured child, and includes some of the more common presentations from a urgent care perspective. The normal cost o...

A #FOAMed article for Critical Care in Pre-hospital Practice @CCinPP - Matt Green PGDip MCPara @MLG1611 When I was a fresh IHCD Trainee Ambulance Technician, an old hand of 44 years’ service remarked that the public always expect an ambulance person to have a bandage to hand. He reasoned not having other equipment would go unnoticed by the general public, but a bandage shoul...

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...

Every career in pre-hospital care starts with a first day. Well, two first days. The first day of training, and the first day of placement, when you put all the training to the test on real patients who actually depend on you. Almost every course, from basic first aider to student paramedic and beyond, builds heavily on the DR(c)ABCDE model that any emergency can be competen...

Marvellous news for the Medic Now team - we’ve won two Global Recruiter Awards! Last Thursday, we dressed in our finest and went along to the awards ceremony at the Cafe de Paris in London’s Leicester Square. We were nominated in three categories: and though we missed out on Best Marketing Campaign, we beat stiff competition to pick up Best Use of Social Media and Best Speci...

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 their o...