Evidence for the current updates: nice.org.uk/guidance/ng232…

It just feels wrong to pay another £196.24 to stay registered as a paramedic.

Unfortunately they day has finally come - I’ve been pinged during my renewal 😔 #ifyouknowyouknow

This is defo the right path to take. We’ve been training Masters’s level Advanced Paramedic Practitioners for years & see non-conveyance rates some 35/40% higher than a regular paramedic as more care episodes are safely closed in community. At scale - its the only way forward.

Add in Independent Paramedic Prescribing to maximise impact of APPs in community & invest in upstream senior clinical decision making in contact centres. These are the answers to today’s emergency ambulance service challenges - not more ambulances taking more people to ED.

Does anyone know the original reference for the medical model of history taking? The structured PC/HPC/PMH/DH/Allergies/FH/SH/SR approach

Great opportunity to progress in research but remain clinical if you wish. Paramedic Senior Research Fellow 0.4 FTE working with a great team (I'm bias-it's my team😂). I'm committed to increasing opportunities to combine a research career with clinical so secondment is an option

As our summers get warmer some of our people have asked for shorts to be provided as part of our uniform. I’m pleased to say that #TeamWAST will soon be able to access shorts for use at work in the summer months to make working in the hot weather more comfortable.

15.5 hour shift today. Dreading my 06:45 alarm for the GP surgery tomorrow 😴

Pretty chuffed to have passed my OSCE after only 7.5 hours between shifts and less than 6 hours sleep. Just over a week to go until i’m finished 🤓💊🩺

Last minute cram before my final exam at 12 💊📚🎓

Pretty chuffed to have passed my prescribing exam! 💊🎓🤓

Its alway lovely to receive thank you letters from patients, but i’m particularly chuffed to have received two on the same day! #plaudit

#Paramedics and ❇️FIT NOTES❇️ Please respond to this Department for Work and Pensions consultation. gov.uk/government/con… College of Paramedics - Primary and Urgent Care Royal College of Paramedics @Chris_Riggers Ian Pls RT, share with colleagues and employers. (Pay attention to Q21)

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**North Wales Primary Care Clinicians***: Please can you code your observations during your consultations - its really useful during my ambulance shifts as it means I can see what observations are normal for that patient which therefore helps me provide better care.

Lovely evening at my neighbours wedding. I danced with a lady i attended 1.5 years ago with multiple spinal fractures following an RTC. I wasn’t particularly sure she had a spinal injury, but my gut said immobilise -and i’m damn glad i did! 🕺💃

Has anyone else been pinged by the HCPC this year? I’ve submitted my portfolio but it still says it needs action - do i need to do anything else?

*Trauma folk* - Has anyone else heard a clicking noise when auscultating a right sided pneumothorax/flail chest? I’ve just read up on Hammans sign, but it appears to only be in the left.. And my patients injury was definitely to the right.. #FOAMed #phtls

This thread is great, and the word nurse could be replaced with many excellent clinical professions. We aren’t here for ego, it’s not even about us, it’s about the people we care for. Great thread 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻