Health

More than 300 new paramedics are to be recruited by West Midlands Ambulance Service, it has been announced. The workforce is to be expanded across the region in an attempt to help meet growing demand. The service experienced the fourth…

New communications technology will play a vital role in helping the ambulance service deal with future challenges, according to an expert. Hayden Newton, former CEO of East of England Ambulance Service, said technology will help paramedics…

HOBART | County Line Orchard was transformed into a Winter Wonderland over the weekend as hundreds of children participated a breakfast with Santa sponsored by Prompt Ambulance to benefit The Salvation Army. "It was such a nice touch to…

LEOMINSTER -- A special gift was delivered on Central Street yesterday with the help of the fire department. "Babies are born everyday and firefighters just get to help once in a while," said department deputy Dan Kirouac Tuesday morning…

Women with or at risk of mental health problems should receive extra support at all stages of pregnancy and beyond, updated NHS guidelines say. They come a fortnight after the bodies of Charlotte Bevan, 30, and her four-day-old daughter…

The UK has announced a £2.5m grant to help children affected by the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The money, for charity Unicef, will help those who have "lost family or whose parents are being treated". Speaking in Sierra Leone,…

Four in five extra nurses recruited in the last year are from abroad, according to new figures which sparked warnings that the NHS has become “astonishingly over-reliant” on foreign labour. Nurse leaders accused hospitals of “panic-buying”…

EMS is dispatched to the home of an 82-year-old female with a chief complaint of shortness of breath. On arrival, the crew learns she has had a dry cough for a week and is now complaining of significant malaise and shortness of breath when…

The Guardian publish on december, 13th, an interesting article from Sarah Smith.What inspire volunteer life-savers? Blood Bike, volunteer who must respect speed limits John Stepney, 56, lives in Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire, with his…

Paramedic teams across the country are being asked to help London Ambulance Service (LAS) because it is struggling to cope with increased demand. Last week was LAS's busiest ever with 11,008 call outs for the most seriously ill and injured.…