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📌 Other findings: • 🌍 No association with neighbourhood ethnicity • ⏰ Time of day matters:  – 12–6pm: 36.2% received PHCC ☀️  – 12–6am: only 10.5% 🌙  – Confirmed in adjusted models • ♀️ Women less likely to get PHCC 🚨

Warm but enjoyable clinical shift today around Birmingham and surrounds. Not the usual 🚑, covering a roster gap on WMAS Mental Health car ⚡️

☀️ Wishing all SPEEDY supporters a very sunny midsummer’s day. Will we finish SPEEDY on the winter solstice? Please keep calling! 📞 🚑 🙏

🚨 Heat Health Alert for West Midlands 🚨 From 12pm Thurs - 6pm Sunday there's a yellow heat-health alert for the West Midlands: ✅ Stay Cool & Hydrated 🏠 Keep Your Environment Cool ⚠️ Be safe Find some useful tips via 👉wmas.nhs.uk/warmweatheradv…

If you're travelling to a country where rabies is present, it's worth knowing how to reduce your risk - read our blog post for more info. 🔗ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/18/how…

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Exciting news this week that the final 2 West Midlands Ambulance Service #HelpUsHelpYou emergency ambulance hubs have opened to the CRASH-4 study this week! This means every WMAS paramedic can join the study, which compares intramuscular tranexamic acid to placebo for adults 50+ with seemingly mild head injury.

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I think we should stop talking about 'lifestyle factors' and change it to people who are 'impacted by commercial determinants of health'

Moment of calm earlier at Dudley Hub, replenishing stocks of CRASH-4 💉 This Clinical Trials Unit - Global Health Trials Group study tests whether tranexamic acid can help patients aged 50 or more, with seemingly mild presentations of head injury. We're pleased that it's now open across all 15 West Midlands Ambulance Service #HelpUsHelpYou hubs.

📢 WEBINAR ALERT 📢 Title: CRASH-4: How we got here & insights gathered so far When: 22 July 09:30 - 10:30 Who: Presented by Prof Ian Roberts Where: Teams - tinyurl.com/2kb35hea Feel free to share with your network

Drinking raw milk is a really bad idea. Only 3% of Americans drink raw milk, but they experience 96% of all milk-related infections.

Trial staff can also have early inklings that certain sites may not recruit well. Potential red flags have been identified incl. poor site engagement, strong site preferences etc. Ensuring sufficient high performing sites are included is essential 7/7 trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Excellent thread on data quality in hospital datasets - almost all of it equally applicable to ambulance setting ⬇️

📢 New National Pre-Alert Guideline RCEM and The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives have released a new national guideline to standardise pre-alert calls between ambulance services and EDs. 📄 Full guideline available now: tinyurl.com/rcemAACE ✅ Updated criteria for pre-alerts ✅ Use of ATMIST

Recruiting non-clinical volunteers! Share with someone who you think might suit WM CARE Team vacancies: >HR manager >Fleet manager >Operational support staff -Experience desired but not essential -Likely 2 hours per week on average More details/Apply: wmcareteam.com/wmct/vacancy/n…

You only have to go back a couple of hundred years and parents - reasonably and realistically - expected half their children to die before reaching adulthood. You throw away the benefits of modern medicine - including vaccines - and you go back to that era. Children are

⚠️RESULTS PUBLISHED⚠️ "Modelling the potential clinical benefit of mobile stroke units in England" 🧠🚑💉 bmcemergmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

🧠 Following the success of last year’s event… 📣 Join us at the Thrombectomy Awareness Event 2025 📍 19 Nov | bet365 Stadium, Stoke-on-Trent 🎙 Hosted by UHNM Charity Mechanical Thrombectomy can save lives and prevent disability—yet just 4.3% of eligible UK patients receive it.

Can you spot West Midlands Ambulance Service #HelpUsHelpYou smallest "vehicle" at Sandwell Hub today?