Day In The Life Of An Ambulance Crew | Good Morning Britain
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- GMB has been given exclusive access to follow the South Central Ambulance service.
Paramedic & Clinical Team Educator Kimberley tells Susanna and Ed the efforts she and her colleagues are making to ensure people get the help and treatment they need.
She adds how receiving abuse on a daily basis 'is the norm now'.
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All ambulance staff are amazing.
If you can get someone to hospital yourself, you should. An ambulance delivers life preserving treatment and is designed for the most serious incidents.
The system is abused because of poor public education and seen as an alternative to a GP.
The amount of times crews arrive to a patients home who has multiple friends and family with multiple cars on the drive and is alert, orientated and not experiencing any time critical life threatening symptoms is precisely a reason as to why others in genuine need are delayed.
True. If an ambulance crew can't do anything value added other than diesel therapy then people should explore other, more appropriate options.
@@coover65 agreed
agreed but question is, how do u know this?
@@zcharged8294 The patient you mean? Yes good point. Not everyone has the training and knowledge to make a proper clinical judgement call as to whether an ambulance is or isn't the most appropriate resource. Here in Australia we ran TV commercials trying to educate the public as to when an ambulance should or shouldn't be called. In most cases it seemed to fall on deaf ears. If I got a dollar for every time I hear "I called for an ambulance so that I'll get seen to quicker at the hospital" I'd be driving a Ferrari.
@@coover65 thanks. I more meant tho how does OP know if the system is abused or not? unless he was one of the families calling the ambulances unnecessarily and getting the evidence of response
the people complaining clearly don't know what these people do every
People who have no idea o comments . People are so abusive &
entitled these days. Many staff get hurt when trying to do their jobs even dying. You have nerve to critise them.
But many staff are incompetent and nobody should be above criticism.
One must discipline oneself to make the job enjoyable to be honest and delighted towards his work sincerely and honestly as well because true happiness come with strong wish , strong desire and great effort in everything we do
I am 63 years of age and wanted to be a para medic but i was told that i am to old to take up the training .What a load of bull shit . I served in the forces for 9 years so my medical training was and is the best that you can get . I still want to be a para medic and feel that some maturity would certainty help .The health service should not be turning away people that want to serve as a para medic . Retirement age is rising so why be an ageist service . I can do the job and can be trained so this is so bloody stupid . We could help the younger crews cope with PTSD and fell much better about life . Now another thing i was a recovery driver for 4 years and have seen just about everything when it comes to serious car accidents .Down to decapitations and loss of limbs so why cant this be taken in to consideration . Its all wrong .
Hi Dave, while it's not a great comparison, please note that I am 41 and in my second year as a student paramedic. I have been with an ambulance service for approximately four years working as an Emergency Medical Technician and working my way up.
There are two main pathways to becoming a Paramedic:
(i) you enrol onto a Paramedic Science degree at any given university that offers this, and complete three years of study - this includes the usual: essays, presentations, practical assessments, dissertation, placements, and portfolios. You become a student again for three years, and once done and registered with the HCPC, you are eligible to work for any trust.
(ii) you apply to join an ambulance trust directly and work your way up from the bottom (this is the way I chose). Depending on which trust you join the roles are similar with small differences but you may start as an Emergency Care Assistant (ECA), or Assistant Ambulance Practitioner (AAP) - not much difference here it's just that trusts like to call them different names. You do not have to have any medical training or medical background to begin at this level, but make sure you can locate and provide your O Level/GCSE (or equivalent) English and Maths certifications, and a C1 certification on your driving licence (which I believe you will have already) is also required (this may change soon with the introduction of lighter ambulances that are under 3.5 tonnes).
The benefits of the second route is that you earn and learn on the job; you get exposure to real situations and the learning is step-laddered so it's not too much too soon. I would estimate that from day 1 starting as an ECA, you may get to Paramedic level within four years, possibly five (I hope that hasn't put you off). You are mentored and supported throughout and as a 'non-registrant' (i.e. non-Paramedic), you will always work with someone more experienced than you.
When I joined in 2009, the youngest person in my cohort of trainees was 19 and the oldest person was 54. One of my former mentors is 61 and currently halfway through his training to become an Advanced Paramedic. To the best of my knowledge there is no age limit - if anything an ambulance service wants people with life experience, as one of the main parts of the job is just being able to talk to people and adapt your communication techniques accordingly. I recently completed a training course with my trust that covered diversity, inclusivity and promoting equal opportunities and fairness - you may not see it, but I assure you the culture is changing. Please don't be disheartened and try again.
Good luck, and drop me a message if you want any further information, I'll be happy to help.
Tom
try St john Dave! With your past experience they'll welcome you as a volunteer with open arms.
Do you really want to be doing shiftwork at 63 years of age? If the UK system is anything like here in Australia by the time you graduate as a paramedic, you'll be 66. then you'll have a year as an intern. Age aside, it's not about how good you are, but how much better you are than the other candidates. You have to be the best at language and numeracy skills, spatial relations, mental aptitude and assessment etc. When I joined there were 3,500 applicants for about 50 positions. In a nutshell, we had to score about 98% for all the exams to stay in the "potential" list. Older people are considered a health risk, although a medical would clarify any concerns. In Australia mandatory retirement age for the ambulance service is 65.
If A&E is busted you need call he'd before you go to A&E in UK ok
I currently work in warehouses which I find totally boring and don't want to be doing it for much longer. My dream job is to work for the ambulance service and can't think of any other job I would want to do I recently got my C1 license which I would need for driving the ambulances so hopefully in the near future is something I'll be doing in the near future. Is definitely a job I'd be proud to do and want to give something back to the community and I love meeting people and getting to know them and always put other people's needs before my own.
Amazing! I hope everything goes to plan, hopefully you’re on your way/getting there! :D
Pretty mundane stuff compared to American ambulances in MOST major cities. South central Los Angeles for instance.
If you have a 999 calls comes in you need go out fast ok
I waited for 3hours with cardiac arrhythmia.
Oh well
that is not the paramedics' fault. They are the ones out there trying to help people like you. its not their fault they cant be in five places at once
Was it an acute cardiac arrythmia? Did it present any blood pressure or breathing problems? If so, the ambulance call taker should've been told this. Many people live a normal life on medications with cardiac arrythmias.
Welcome to the Conservative Government. People are leaving more than the trust can recruit. More ambulances, more personnel. No one wants to work for a failing system.
That’s when their not striking for more wages , no more pot banging foe me 😮
They deserve better pay.
@@calumlong7860 and we deserve to be looked after by them regardless of them striking, and the nurses and the junior doctors , I’m fed up with them , there is plenty of workers who deserve more money but they can’t hold the sick and patients hostage to get there demands met .
When you join a job you know what your going to get paid .
@@petrus666love I completely understand and sympathise with your opinion, but with that being said if you or I were doctors, paramedics nurses etc I think we’d have very different viewpoints. Just because you go into the job knowing the salary, doesn’t conclude in any way,shape or form that that salary is enough. When considering that Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurses are not allowed to strike, this shows that although medical professionals striking can seem ethically concerning, those that would have a severe effect (; death) are not striking, as they are not allowed.
Personally, God knows how we’ll get the money to pay everybody what they should be paid, however that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen.
And that’s exactly the problem, entitled people thinking an ambulance will just come whenever they call. The NHS is a privilege not an entitlement. Paramedics and other healthcare workers can’t carry on like this any more, record numbers of healthcare workers are leaving their professions because they can’t offer the care they want to give and they are watching people die because they haven’t got the resources to give the level of care they need. The strikes aren’t just about money, although healthcare workers do need to provide for themselves and their families like everyone else, it’s about safe staffing levels and being able to continue being there when people need them. The healthcare service is unsafe in its current state and healthcare staff are striking now before it’s too late. If they don’t bring attention to the working conditions and patient safety then there will be no healthcare service whatsoever. I work for the ambulance service and there is just as much blame for the wait times on the publics blatant misuse and abuse of the service. Ambulances are for life-threatening emergencies but people seem to think they’re a way to fast track their way through the health system. Before criticising health workers who haven’t taken the decision to strike lightly, look at the members of the public who are wasting valuable ambulances and their skilled crews time by calling with a tummy ache or a sore throat, even broken bones often don’t require an ambulance, this is not IMMEDIATELY life-threatening and people should get themselves to a suitable treatment centre rather than using an ambulance as a taxi. So much time and money would be saved if people stopped calling for ambulances for things they could see a GP or pharmacist about and if people who do need emergency treatment recognised an ambulance isn’t always needed to access this.
When you have an elderly patient dying in the back of your ambulance holding onto your hand as they take their last breath while vomitting up their last meal, and you think that you're getting paid less than a checkout operator you come back and repeat that comment please
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