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Paramedic. Primary Care tACP. @liveshq Community Emergency Medicine Practitioner/CCP/educator. Always with a brew ☕️

[Jeremy Clarkson @JeremyClarkson]

If your A level results are disappointing, don’t worry. I got a C and two Us and here I am today, installing lights for a helicopter landing pad in my garden.

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@rorygeo Yes, within the budgets they’ve got.

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@Sikarius12 @RAF_Luton Fokker.

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@steve_paramedic @unilincoln @LincolnCastle Have you looked at Warwick?

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A little bit chuffed to have graduated from @unilincoln with a Postgraduate Certificate in Pre-Hospital Critical Care. Beautiful backdrop to graduate in Lincoln Cathedral and @LincolnCastle

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@steve_paramedic @unilincoln @LincolnCastle It was pretty much entirely face to face. They’ve stopped offering it for the time being though.

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@RoryTHirst @unilincoln @LincolnCastle It was good Rory. They’ve stopped offering it for the time being though.

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@RAF_Luton @StansaidAirport It’s a spitfire. Cant you see it spitting fire?!

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Delivering critical care literally across the length and breadth of Lincolnshire with 3 allocations and 2 incidents attended, starting the day in the deep South and finishing up in the very North.

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@AapeVentura @EM_RESUS New potato or baked?

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Old and new. Backdrop of the hospital clock tower against @liveshq Medic 50 on standby. The tower’s overlooked some change in care since its building in 1950. Bringing critical care out of hospital and to the patient’s side

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@em_bulance Very dependent on the presentation. There’s some I’ll happily sit in the waiting room, others I’ll keep in my room to monitor. Are they under constant observation once they arrive in ED? What makes you think it’s unsafe?

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@lauren_cuttsx Think it came up because we’re both such massive Wednesday fans 🔵⚪️😏

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@TracyJCooke70 Maybe it’s that massive sword he’s carrying…

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@riversampler @bluesbreaker196 That doesn’t provide any logic whatsoever.

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And this is partly why the ambulance services are in such crisis. One of these roles requires a BSc and a high level of responsibility for patient care and safety. The other includes an ~£8500 retention premium…

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@cmuirel @DrLindaDykes @GlenwrightCook I don’t think that is controversial at all. You’re absolutely right that decision making support should be in-house in terms of governance, assurance and audit.

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@JulieBridget55 Sure you’d like a paramedic to be on that ambulance on the road though? Rather than a well-maintained ambulance sitting useless in the garage

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@JGoulding444 @maff2k If they work unsocial hours. That isn’t a salary for responsibility. That is compensation for working unsocial hours.

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@A_Fine_Rosey Shortage of those staying in the services.

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@A_Fine_Rosey I put it to you that a wrong decision by a paramedic can quite easily lead to death.

The role is not that of a trainee at all, it’s that of a qualified paramedic who has finished a degree. There’s ~150hrs preceptorship if they’re lucky, then they’re out making decisions alone.