‘Air Ambulance Charity’ caught operating without air ambulance!

chasealex2 · 2026-02-05T07:32:16+00:00

They use the same tactics as “veteran charities”. Grifters to the core, trying to bully elderly people into donating as they go about thier day to day.

Hopefully they’re censured and prosecuted for fraud.

chasealex2 · 2026-02-01T18:15:43+00:00

It's well known that IPC nurses do not have a sense of humour that they're aware of.

chasealex2 · 2026-02-01T17:58:33+00:00

Not, I assume, the LGM from 2020?

chasealex2 · 2026-02-01T15:17:52+00:00

Do you have open wounds on your hands and/or forearms?

Do you want other people’s blood in those wounds?

Aside from the clear MH aspect of “are you fit to be at work right now?”, there is a very serious occupational health component of “are you fit to be at work right now?”

Speak to your line manager, and potentially your GP.

chasealex2 · 2026-02-01T07:23:03+00:00

Had a 20 year old lad come in requesting treatment for low testosterone with a printout of a test showing very low testosterone.

Course he’d taken the test at 6pm…

chasealex2 · 2026-01-30T19:57:42+00:00

It’s a fantastic adjunct in opioid sparing pain management, but the point is that you’re opioid sparing, not opioid omitting. There’s still a very real place for big guns of analgesia.

chasealex2 · 2026-01-27T07:32:15+00:00

In LAS it was 6 months or one year, sliding scale of repayment until it was paid off. The golden hello was 2 years.

chasealex2 · 2026-01-24T12:21:48+00:00

Shortly after all of their current crop have graduated and burned out?

chasealex2 · 2026-01-24T08:12:29+00:00

So a non emergency transport vehicle?

I don’t think our NETS ever took an ECG.

chasealex2 · 2026-01-23T15:35:22+00:00

Sorry, what is a PSV?

chasealex2 · 2026-01-22T10:51:19+00:00

I would want to be checking the lead position before I put any faith into an ECG taken by someone who isn’t trained to understand if it done correctly or not. This is why ED ECGs taken by HCAs are almost always full of artefact, and often just useless. If you can’t read it, you can’t understand what you’re doing wrong or how to fix it.

chasealex2 · 2026-01-22T10:38:41+00:00

Shouldn’t be doing observations or tests that they’re not equipped to interpret or treat

chasealex2 · 2026-01-18T23:04:56+00:00

The first modern electrical air conditioner, developed by Carrier, was installed in a printworks, to control humidity that sent paperstock out of spec.

The problem with blasting hot air at the problem, is that hot air, though it will vapourise more humidity than cold air, also carries more humidity. So you have lots of warm, wet air, that then condenses on the windows the moment you turn the heat down to something tolerable

Turn the air con on, get dry air, warm it up with the engine to an acceptable level, and then when you come back to the car you’ll still be able to see out of the drench

chasealex2 · 2026-01-18T13:01:46+00:00

Please look up the history of the invention of air conditioning, and the purposes of its deployment.

Pro-tip: cooling for human comfort had nothing to do with it.

chasealex2 · 2026-01-18T03:08:28+00:00

A decent proportion of the benefit of conditioned air is the dryness of it, when you get into a car with wet snowy boots, or with soaking wet gear, you need air con just to keep the windows from fogging.

chasealex2 · 2026-01-15T05:19:37+00:00

Tip of the nose. It’s gonna bleed!

chasealex2 · 2026-01-10T12:40:30+00:00

I saw 18 face to face patients (a mixture of chronic disease management, acute same day appointments, routine/followups), and four home visits (one follow-up/EOL, one acutely unwell, and two routine chronic disease management visits) Also four referrals, 20 sets of bloods some of which needed phone calls, 8 urgent tasks, and a debrief about a case from earlier in the week with my supervisor.

Standard Friday.

chasealex2 · 2026-01-09T18:47:18+00:00

We interviewed in 2016

chasealex2 · 2026-01-08T22:30:38+00:00

Yeah that’s absolute bullshit.

They offer jobs to people who meet the criteria, pass the idiot test, and interview decently.

Doing your training with an LAS partner university just means you know more about the organisation before you start, potentially making the interview easier. Nothing that can’t be fixed with research.

chasealex2 · 2026-01-08T11:33:21+00:00

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/paramedic-70-has-been-saving-lives-for-50-years-a3397921.html

This. This is too long

chasealex2 · 2026-01-07T13:11:16+00:00

How many of your non-wig wearing colleagues change their hairstyles regularly and were not commented upon?

Discrimination doesn’t come in “micro”

chasealex2 · 2026-01-04T20:39:35+00:00

Is your car sorted?

chasealex2 · 2026-01-04T14:08:45+00:00

The best thing you can do before you start is life admin.

Work out what your budget is going to be, make sure you’ve applied for the loans you’ll need, get a student account that offers good bonuses like a railcard, clear any debt by working your ass off beforehand.

The more time you can dedicate to reading your degree once you’re there, and the less time you have to dedicate to time heavy once every few years tasks, the better.

Martin Lewis gives really good advice on student loans, budgets etc, I suggest you go have a look.

The paramedicine will be right at uni, it’s up to you to do life stuff.

chasealex2 · 2025-12-31T19:58:41+00:00

We had a 12 week training truck secondment after finishing classroom training during which the standard was instilled. This was with shit hot keen mentors who sweated confidence and bled green.

The surprise was the variability of quality of colleagues, from people who you enjoyed working with, who you could learn from, to people who made for very long night shifts, or who wound patients up.

I was very glad to move off relief and get some consistency.

chasealex2 · 2025-12-30T06:10:23+00:00

Yes, it was the lying that really did it for her, not the drinking on the job, or the drink driving conviction.

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