A Leicester hospital is using Twitter to highlight the pressures on its emergency department. Staff will tweet updates from Leicester Royal Infirmary’s accident and emergency unit from 08:00 to 18:00 GMT. A hospital spokesman said the tweets would show the illnesses staff saw and highlight the delays and inconvenience…
The East Midlands Ambulance Service is to spend about £800,000 on ambulances capable of dealing with obese patients. It currently has only a handful of vehicles capable of moving the largest patients in a 270-strong core fleet. The trust said investing in 80 ambulances with larger stretchers, ramps, hoists…
– This seems horrible. How could any doctor ever fall for such harmful treatment? What is this Dangerous Treatment? How Long Did it Take to Stop Using it? What we have learnt from the experience of the last few years is, that a great number of cases- which our…
An 18-month-long project has led to a full-scale mock-up of an ambulance fit for the 21st century. Given the astonishing pace of medical technology innovation, you would be forgiven for thinking that the modern ambulance must surely be a slick box of tricks on wheels. But from a design…
In late October on my way to New York City for the marathon I had a long ground hold at the end of the runway at the Detroit Airport. After kindly loading us on the plan and taxing to the end of the runway the pilot announced that due…
Increased sickness levels and maternity leave are being blamed after North Yorkshire health chiefs admitted drafting in paramedics to help cover a town’s out-of-hours GP service. Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Selby’s night time emergency GP service, has assured patients the situation is not a cost-cutting…
A Guest Post by Sean Fontaine I love posting articles controversial enough to warrant a disclaimer. Today I have the pleasure of bringing you another post by guest author Sean Fontaine. Sean is a graduate of Regis University and a Firefighter / Paramedic for The South Metro Fire Rescue…
A nuisance mother and son who pestered emergency services with a whopping 820 CALLS in just three years have been evicted from their home after making their neighbours life a misery. ‘Nightmare neighbours’ Tina Lean, 43, and Jamie Power, 20, persistently pestered police fire and ambulance with their time-wasting…
A fisherman who suffered a serious eye injury has accused the ambulance service of ignoring his pleas for help. Peter Biernis was fishing by the River Ivel at Biggleswade Common on Boxing Day when he was hit by a piece of lead shot. The object flew off the end…
Best part of this video is the description, “For EMS week, the Hillsborough County Supervisors always cook breakfast for the Paramedics, EMTs, 1st Responders, …” What a great reminder that EMS Week should be first about honoring and thanking EMS instead of asking EMS to do something additional like…