Ensure every student leaves school with #CPR training: please support at action.resus.org.uk/cpr-in-schools

Absolutely insane that people are qualifying as HCPs and unable to get jobs despite increasing wait list and waiting times 🤯 changes need to be made!! #paramedic

Yet another area of healthcare research with a gaping hole exploring sex differences in treatment and outcomes ❌

GREATix is SUCH a good idea!!!

Without a doubt, the spread of scientific mis/disinformation may be one of the most serious public health threats of our time.

The only thing in life that’s guaranteed is death. Make sure you die the way you want to. In this week’s Daily Mail Good Health section, I share the story of two very different endings. One tragic, chaotic, and avoidable. The other – calm, peaceful, and exactly as it should have

ON BBC Panorama tonight - the story of Paloma Shemirani, a young woman with an 8cm lymphoma inside her chest, and an 85% chance of a cure with chemo. Her mother Kate, a nurse and conspiracy theorist convinced her to do Gerson Therapy (juicing and enemas) instead. A few months

Another public servant found dead after going missing, Police officer this week too If you need help 🚑 Ambulance- TASC 👮‍♂️ Police – Police Care UK 🚒 Fire – Fire Fighters Charity 🛟 Coastguard - Coastguard Association We stand together as a 999 family. Always. 💙

A FOI request released by SAS revealed that ambulances in Scotland spent a total of 361,753 hours waiting outside hospitals to unload and depart. An equivalent to more than 41 years of cumulative delay! That’s absolutely insane 🚑

Forget psychology, this is in paramedic training!

Jenny Dod from Oxford Brookes sharing our work on paramedic learner sexual safety whilst on practice placement. A pressing and urgent issue. BU ParaScience Ellie Stowe Bournemouth Uni NHS England

*getting an IUD inserted 3 months postpartum* Me: is it going to hurt? Doctor: don’t worry, it hurts much less than childbirth Me: ok that can’t possibly be the standard we’re going to work off of for the rest of my life

You know you work in health when you get emails like this:

Today was 3 minute thesis day at uni 📚 does presenting live *ever* get easier?! Key points: 💊 no sex difference in analgesia administration, women less likely to receive opioids 💉 non-white patients less likely to receive analgesia and opioids Next up: PPIE and audit time!

Earn £15.32/hour as a paramedic in the U.K. OR £14.56 as a Patient Transport Officer in Australia, you decide 🤯 (or £32.51/hour as a Para in Aus)

Permission to have a therapy horse on ambulances for testing AVPU…

The iconic London cab reimagined for patient care. Guy's and St Thomas' introduced 12 hybrid 'taxi ambulances' for non-emergency transport. It’s the kind of innovation the 10 Year Health Plan is building on to create a more connected, patient-focused NHS. ➡️ gov.uk/government/pub…

Lil guy’s first holiday with Ryanair

It's home, again.

Never forget, women’s safety in cars is sacrificed because we still have a massive gender data gap, and so women’s bodies are expected to behave like men’s - regardless of what actually happens. More from Caroline Criado Perez : theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2… #womenshealth #genderdatagap