Comments on: Reasons to be Cheerful…!!!

By: Amanda Walters

Amanda Walters — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:42:09 +0000

Hello,

I hope you don’t mind me contacting you, but I wondered if you were currently accepting guest blog posts?

I am an experienced writer and graphic designer with a passion for UK healthcare and careers, and would love to send a post over to you.

Would this be of interest?

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Amanda Walters

By: Aucklandir (NZ Paramedic)

Aucklandir (NZ Paramedic) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:47:52 +0000

I blame the civilisation of the control room. When we had ambulance staff working in there they would filter out these non urgent calls. Now they are just call takers who rely on the ProQA screen to determine what priority to gove the job.

By: manchesteregg

manchesteregg — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:43:06 +0000

Purpleplus, thanks for the return reply. I look forward to reading more and more of your stuff nice to see same stuff different area really. Well your inspiration has gone far as now I have started who knows where it will end if your interested here is the link http://manchesteregg2010.wordpress.com/ feel free to pass comment and give pointers look forward to your comments
Manchester egg

By: kingmagic

kingmagic — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 10:24:33 +0000

manchesteregg…thanks for your comments. I will be posting more stuff soon….just need to find the time and double, double, double (treble?) check that it will be untraceable and anonymous. Something to bear in mind if you start your own blog! (The service will be looking for any excuse to bin people due to cutbacks etc!)
We need to educate the public, and GPs, when and what to call an ambo for….fairly recent 999 call I went to on blues & twos resulted in the woman caller wanting advice on moving to a council bungalow! An absolute waste of time but ended up with us doing all the non transport paperwork (30-45 mins)which made us unavailable for the best part of an hour because the service will jump on us if we dont do the paperwork properly!!!
Still the best job in the world and also the worst at times all rolled into one.
It would be even better if the public wised up and the management supported us rather than conducting witch hunts at the slightest error.
Cheers
KM

By: manchesteregg

manchesteregg — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:46:19 +0000

hey just found your blog its ace I am a rrv/fru driver in nwas and can say us in manchester have been battered more and more over the years and i agree with everything in this post christmas day i ended running a total of 370 miles in a 12 hour shift all over the shop and the only job that really needed me was a 7oyom who was having a stemi and still had to wait for 45 mins for a vehicle its becoming the norm to not expect a vehicle arrrrrrrghhhh think might start my own blog and share the experience for example 3 wk hx of headache seen gp at the start took pain releif on the first day then not bothered since decided he had a temp (might be the three jackets two duvets and the fact your lay on the radiator) call me cynical but did this warrant a cat a response

By: ECParamedic

ECParamedic — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:29:20 +0000

Hey, long time no post KM. Hope you are doing well and feeling a bit more positive than in your last post.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:11:49 +0000

Agree with all is said bro, you must work for EEAS same sh*t day and night, really gets to you, talk about workplace stress leading to depression, I think I’m on my way…. Only way to get time off

By: tparkar

tparkar — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:49:34 +0000

bad news im afraid I cant offer you much hope ,I had someone ask me the number for an ambulance.They have been in this country for 40 odd years .Good luck .By the way I would like to use an image from your site if thats ok

By: kingmagic

kingmagic — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:53:43 +0000

BG…big sis. Surviving it so far.

piratedani…theres light at the end of the tunnel (either that or its a train coming!!!) Hope you are well?

Eric…we seem to have more ‘suits’ than shop floor staff!

tom gane…’cossetted nation’ good description. We need to spend money on educating the public…and our managers.

Stonehead…thanks Stoney.

Rach…workload seems to be increasing daily with crews decreasing at same time! And the service is going into ‘arse covering’ exercises big time.

Mr. Nighttime…dont say ‘stolen’ just say ‘borrowed on a permanent basis.’

AnneDroid…we have a situation where training is virtually non-exsistant (continuation training/updates etc) and we are expected to do it all in our own time.

Paramedic Blogger…its therapy like ECT (electro convulsive therapy) at the moment I think. Lots of stuff going on and not enough time to do it!

By: Paramedic Blogger

Paramedic Blogger — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:24:24 +0000

Keep posting, remember, its therapy…..

I can’t remember which trust you work for, but its the same here too and its rubbish!

Its almost as if the Management (and some of the public too) have forgotten about the pink squishy things that work on these ambulances to treat people, yes, they are humans too you know!