#999CriticalCondition | Who’s ready for episode six from the fifth series of our exclusive documentary #999CriticalCondition on Channel 5 ? We hope you’ll be watching. Tune in this Wednesday at 9pm

#999CriticalCondition 🚨 | A Cheshire joiner who broke his back falling head first down his stairs is now on the road to recovery thanks to the life-saving skills of staff at University Hospitals of North Midlands. Read more ➡️ uhnm.nhs.uk/latest-uhnm-ne…

Great CPD Event in Birmingham, hosted by ⁦WMAS MERIT⁩ ⁦West Midlands Ambulance Service #HelpUsHelpYou⁩

#999CriticalCondition 🚨 | It’s the last episode of our hard-hitting Channel 5 documentary on Wednesday at 9pm. Will you be watching our staff patients as they confront life and death?

Great to be back in the air 🚁 with such a great team 👍 MERT and MAAC working seamlessly together as always

A&E is now like Narnia – there are 365 days of winter each year. Every day our corridors are full, and patients can wait for up to two days for a ward bed. However hard we work, if often feels like we are moving deckchairs on the NHS titanic. We are failing our very patients

Each winter in the #NHS in the past decade has become slightly worse, and that trend, which has not been reversed, has resulted in a dire situation. The solutions to the NHS crisis are neither easy, nor quick, argues Tim Cooksley bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Happy #ArmedForcesDay. 20 years and still serving. Here’s to another 20 👍

Without these guys I wouldn't be here today! wmas.nhs.uk/2024/08/02/wit…

A man who suffered horrific burns to his body after touching live electricity cables in 2020 has been reunited with the West Midlands Ambulance Service #HelpUsHelpYou staff who helped to save his life. To read more about Darren's story head to ➡️wmas.nhs.uk/2024/08/02/wit…

We're hosting a Stop The Bleed Training event on Saturday 14th September at Sandwell Hub in partnership with citizenAID🩸🚑. Jim Hancox, Senior Operations Manager of MERIT & Enhanced Care said: “By attending this session you will learn basic interventions that could help to

Regulator investigates Stoke Air Ambulance charity bbc.in/4fyIBII

Due to the dangerous lack of planning and action taken by Obstetrics at QMC and The City Hospital in Nottingham, we are forced to accept the derogations: 1x resident (Sat 26 July) and 3x resident doctors tomorrow (Sun 27 July). 1/2 Protecting patient safety during strikes has

🚨 Resident doctors earn ~£26/hr in 2025. 🔧 Plumber: £45/hr ⚡ Electrician: £50/hr 🏋️ PT: £35–£50/hr 🔑 Locksmith: £90/hr 💻 Freelance dev: £65/hr 📸 Photographer: £36/hr The system’s broken when saving lives pays less than unblocking pipes. #DoctorsStrike #NHS #PayRestoration

If insanity is repeatedly doing the same thing and expecting different results … Overcrowding in EDs kills patients and harms staff. The core problem is the “back door” of our departments. Continued focus on the “front door” through redirection strategies won’t work. Royal College of Emergency Medicine

The Government has suggested a pay uplift of just 2.5% for doctors next year, well below inflation. With resident doctors set to strike next month over pay and jobs, it is “frankly indefensible that yet another Government is once again suggesting real-terms pay cut for

I've been writing about patients delayed in ambulances since 2021 at least. Today my family are experiencing it too. I made it from London before mum got in at UHNM NHS Trust 🏥 Staff are trying their best & doing what they can but the system is just so stretched and we've normalised it

"So-called ‘corridor care’ can only be stopped in the corridors of power" That's the message we hope MPs will take from the festive greetings cards RCEM has sent every single sitting member in the country. Read more here: rcem.ac.uk/press-release/…

Charity Commission investigates air ambulance charity gov.uk/government/new…