The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) is misleading the public by distorting emergency response times, a union has claimed. The GMB said the trust was marking 999 calls as “target met” when the emergency was still ongoing, to hit targets. The trust strongly denied the accusation,…
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‘I will never get her off my mind’ Alzheimer’s Reading Room I read about Hans and Gloria Gosch on the Reading Eagle in a wonderful, heart warming story written by Mike Urbin. There were many sentences and quotes in this story that just stuck out and resonated to me….
If you suffer from acne, then you must be very happy to find a solution that will make certain that you will see the back of those acne breakouts rapidly. Nonetheless, acne breakouts frequently leave behind telltale scarring and blotches that will stick with you for a long time….
A paramedic who was off work for six months after being attacked by a patient is suing ambulance bosses for £100,000 after claiming they did not tell her the call-out was dangerous. Lynn Sutherland was punched and kicked by 16-year-old Grahame Donnelly after racing to his home amid fears…
Unions have urged the government to slow down the roll out of the new non-emergency NHS telephone service amid fears a lack of nursing input could increase pressure on other services. NHS 111 is due to replace NHS Direct from April 2013. But unlike NHS Direct, which is a…
An Angus teenager who threatened to knife two paramedics has been sent to a Young Offenders Institution for six months. John Brand was so aggressive that they locked the door of their ambulance before driving off for their own safety. Brand’s lawyer blamed the youth’s actions on the shock…
– Image credits. – The 40-year-old paramedic was working near Rockhampton where he stole methoxyflurane – a non-opioid alternative to morphine often used for acute trauma – from the Queensland Ambulance Service in November 2010. QAS suspended him a month later and court documents show he was convicted in…
Lately we have been seeing a lot of devices that aim to wake you up but in a better way. And for the GEAR4 Renew Sleepclock, it goes way beyond simply going off and pulling you out of bed. The device also comes with a feature which measures your…
By 2015 to 2020, somewhere in there, there’s a tipping point where our healthcare system will collapse under Alzheimer’s alone. There is no tipping point right now for saying we have a drug that will prevent this disease. Alzheimer’s Reading Room Rudy Tanzi ” The first drugs that we…