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June could be a great month for Medic Now - we’ve made the finals of both the Buckinghamshire Business Awards and The Global Recruiter Awards. Launched in 2006, the Buckinghamshire Business Awards are the county's leading business awards. The awards play a major role within the county, showcasing the entrepreneurial spirit and vision of the community, which in turn presents ...

This post was originally published on The Broken Paramedic’s blog. You can follow him on Twitter @BrokenParamedic Dear frontline ambulance colleagues, After 12 years of responding to 999 calls and subsequently watching from the sidelines as family and friends continue to do so, I am only too aware of the ever increasing pressures and the ongoing erosion of the ambulance clin...

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 of children...

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, highly-tr...

This post was first published on ' The Ramblings of a Graduate Paramedic' Blog by Saul Gaunt. You can follow him on Twitter @saulie1 Yesterday, I “ran” my first resuscitation as a student paramedic. A relatively normal situation for a paramedic to be in, a daily occurrence if you like. It was however my first time. I had a patient awake and responding to me, before then goin...

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 medical...

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 huge...

​ Join the team that is changing healthcare recruitment Medic Now is the UK’s number 1 recruitment agency for the ambulance sector. We are looking for talented people to join our growing team in High Wycombe, and we’re holding an open day on Friday 26th February to meet potential new recruits. We’re a young company with big ambitions. Experience in the recruitment industry i...

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 year...

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, Fi...