A senior manager at Great Western Ambulance Service has left the organisation with a £121,000 pay-off. The unnamed individual’s post was no longer required and the trust decided to offer a severance payment. A spokesman for GWAS said the manager concerned had been on a variety of secondments for…
Items stolen from the YAS included vehicle satellite navigation systems, mobile phones, hand-held radios and uniforms. The most serious was the theft of a defibrillator, though this was later recovered by police. A spokesman for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) said all of the thefts have been reported…
The East of England Ambulance Service has denied accusations it is manipulating figures to hit emergency response targets. The GMB union says First Responders – volunteers with first aid training – and rapid response vehicles should not be included in the eight-minute response time for life- threatening calls. It…
East Midlands Ambulance Service has again failed to hit target times for responding to emergency calls. The figures for December, show that EMAS reached 72.8 per cent of the most serious calls – known as category A8 – within eight minutes.The target is 75 per cent, and the national…
– I have been thinking a bit more about Walt Trachim’s comment on Answer to What is this Dangerous Treatment and How Long Did it Take to Stop Using it and my response. 2. You know me well enough, I think, to know that I’m not satisfied unless I…
Google+ is Google’s foray into social networking and how to use it for business is the topic of Google+ for Business by marketing expert and social media evangelist Chris Brogan. In the book, which I read on my Kindle Fire, Chris overviews Google+ with a focus on business. Considering the challenge…
– There are the 5 Rights of drug administration, they are often cited as the defenders of the patients, but I do not think they are adequate. They can even cause harm. The 5 Rights – The Right Time . This one is actually sometimes used to hurt patients….
Medical Math is division and multiplication where the variables are dose size, rate, patient weight, or fluid volume. As you are trying to learn or improve your medical math skills it may be worth your while to review multiplication and division. These are a few of the videos available…
– A post at EM Literature of Note provides another example of bad research. Not just bad, but deadly. – The benefit of tPA in acute stroke is linked to the speed and degree of clot lysis and artery recanalization. 16 –18 [1] Speed does appear to be most…
A new book written by East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust paramedics to help deliver high quality care for patients has been launched. The group of front-line staff who have contributed to ‘Pain: an ambulance perspective’ were presented with their own copies on Wednesday and guests also heard…