Got my flu shot at Follow @HSEMidWest today. Hope all National Ambulance Service 🇮🇪🚑 staff will do the same - protects our patients, our families and ourselves

Now that’s clever and useful!

It’s a fair point

True 7 years ago when first written… not enough beds👇

Excellent read. Decisions and consequences.

Essential listening for every single member of An Garda Siochana, including the Commissioner and indeed the Minister for Justice. Urgent action required.

For Al my colleagues who have worried about my “summer” uniform, I was just ahead of the game.

The psychological impact of resuscitation affects everyone differently. Immediately afterwards, you might feel great – or sometimes you might not be affected at all. But it's important to remember that at times, exposure to resuscitation can be shocking, upsetting or disturbing.

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And that’s a wrap for another year 👏 Another successful National Human Factors in Patient Safety conference has come to an end. Great speakers who delivered very interesting talks and provided great take-aways. Thank you to our speakers and attendees both in person and online.

Fantastic afternoon, certain now more than ever that our quest to eliminate incivilty will improve patient safety and staff wellbeing.

Seen much about a child in possession of a ‘toy’ being detained at gunpoint by armed officers? Although Firearms Operations Unit won’t comment on this case, our job is increasingly difficult when we deal with ‘toy’ gun incidents. This ‘toy’ is in fact real & capable of killing! Enough said?

Almost as cynical as me but not burnt out

"Dying, just like being born, is a process our bodies go through quite naturally. Knowing what to expect takes away a lot of the fear." Kathryn Mannix goes through the process of dying with the idea of relieving anxiety around the subject of death: ow.ly/FWqv50Q95B0

This is brilliant. Cobras. Goals vs target measured vs unintended vs unintended outcome. It’s a huge problem in healthcare.

This is bad. Eir’s customer complaint manual: "Under no circumstances are the complaints number or complaints webpage address to be provided to any customer. An agent found to be doing this will be subject to a disciplinary under call avoidance." Irish court fined it €7,500

Taking falsified medicines can harm your health. They may contain: ❌ no or incorrect amount of active ingredient ❌ the wrong active ingredient These medicines won’t treat or prevent disease & may cause harmful side effects. Only purchase 💊 from authorized pharmacies.

Great engagement this week with the Irish Dementia Working Group on National Ambulance Service 🇮🇪🚑 proposals for developing an age friendly ambulance service. Really good insights and advice, thanks to all the group members Irish Dementia Working Group (The ASI) The Alzheimer Society of Ireland

So completely agree. Let them face a family at an inquest rather than finding the lowest person on the pole to blame in our ‘just culture’.

1/3 A paper recently published on physician lead prehospital critical care teams has recently lead to some heated discussions in various spheres. Further discussion has resulted in a white paper being authored by the prehospital and retrieval medicine society of New Zealand