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30 Dec 2003 |
Police hunt hoax paramedic |
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A man using a stolen ambulance radio has been posing as a
paramedic and making hoax emergency calls. (BBC News) |
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23 Dec 2003 |
Bogus paramedic avoids jail |
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A bogus ambulance man who assaulted a collapsed reveller
while pretending to be a paramedic has avoided a jail sentence. (BBC
News) |
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18 Nov 2003 |
Mid-East paramedics run the gauntlet |
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Richard Miron and Barbara Plett follow Israeli and
Palestinian ambulance crews as they struggle to cope with the dangers
and problems presented by the conflict in the region, for the BBC Radio
4 documentary Red Crescent, Red Star. (BBC News) |
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17 Dec 2003 |
Fire
engine doubles as ambulance |
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A 71-year-old Merseyside man suffering from chest pains
had to be taken to hospital in a fire engine because it was feared an
ambulance would not get to him in time. (BBC News) |
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11 Dec 2003 |
Speed
humps under fire for delays |
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The future of London's road humps, blamed by the
emergency services for increasing response times, is to be considered by
the London Assembly. (BBC News) |
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9 Dec 2003 |
Ambulance
service condemned by health watchdog |
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An NHS ambulance trust has been severely
criticised in a new report by an independent watchdog.
UNISON has now demanded that the service receives greater funding. |
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8 Dec 2003 |
Crews target 999 abusers |
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Ambulance services have launched a hard-hitting campaign
aimed at stamping out trivial 999 calls. (BBC News) |
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8 Dec 2003 |
All NHS
patients to have electronic records |
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By 2010, every NHS patient in England will
have an individual electronic NHS care record, health secretary John
Reid announced today. |
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5 Dec 2003 |
Ambulances reject 'trivial' 999 calls |
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London ambulances have become the first in England to
refuse to attend 999 calls considered to be too trivial. (BBC News) |
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3 Dec 2003 |
NHS
recruitment goes on-line |
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An on-line recruitment service for the NHS,
which allows candidates to view job adverts and apply for positions, was
launched today. |
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30 Nov 2003 |
New Childrens NHS website launched |
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A brand new website called Children First
was launched in October 2003, as a partnership between children’s
hospitals and charities. |
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24 Nov 2003 |
Ambulance on 999 call hits boy |
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A seven-year-old boy from Sussex has suffered serious
injuries after he was hit by an ambulance which was responding to a 999
call. (BBC News) |
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17 Nov 2003 |
Bogus paramedic admits assault |
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A Leicestershire man who posed as a paramedic could be
jailed after he admitted assaulting a woman. (BBC News) |
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11 Nov 2003 |
Stolen
ambulance halted |
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Police were forced to burst the tyres of an ambulance to
stop it after it was stolen from outside a Devon ambulance station. (BBC
News) |
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6 Nov 2003 |
Suspensions of NHS clinical staff should be ‘last resort’ |
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Key recommendations have been made on how to improve the
management of suspensions of NHS clinical staff in a report released by
the national audit office. UNISON welcomes the report and has in the
past expressed concern about the overuse of suspensions as a
disciplinary sanction........ |
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6 Nov 2003 |
Suspended staff
'cost NHS £40m' |
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The NHS is wasting millions of pounds every year
suspending clinical staff unnecessarily, a report suggests. (BBC News) |
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4 Nov 2003 |
Volunteers sent on 999 calls |
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An ambulance trust has admitted using unpaid volunteers
to answer 999 emergency calls. (BBC News) |
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31 October 2003 |
Careless driving paramedic fined |
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Trainee paramedic Ian Fitzgerald, from Trowbridge,
Wiltshire, who was cleared of causing death by dangerous driving, has
been fined £1,200 and banned for three months after being convicted of
careless driving. (BBC News) |
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20 October 2003 |
Call for review of speeding rules |
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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has called for a
review of the rules on speeding ambulances following the case of the
ambulance driver caught doing more than 100 mph. (BBC News) |
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23 September 2003 |
Paramedic 'did not see car' |
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A trainee paramedic accused of killing a motorist when he
drove through red lights on his way to a 999 call, has told a court he
only saw a "green streak" seconds before the crash. (BBC News) |
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23 September 2003 |
Hearing into 'accident body photo' |
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A formal hearing will take place into allegations an
ambulance worker photographed a body at the scene of a road accident. |
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16 September 2003 |
Health
and safety website goes live |
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UNISON has launched a new website aimed at giving free
health and safety information to small and medium sized community and
voluntary organisations. |
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15 September 2003 |
Many ambulance
staff 'fiddling figures' |
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Staff at a third of ambulance trusts are altering data on
response times to meet government targets, a report says. (BBC
News) |
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1 July 2003 |
LAS UNISON BRANCH
LAUNCH WEBSITE |
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On 1 July
2003 the LAS Unison Branch launched their own website.
The website had been in the planning stage for many months as the branch
felt it was an important way to communicate directly and quickly with
members. |
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June 2003 |
APAP lose their heartland |
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The Westcountry Ambulance
service has withdrawn recognition from APAP. |
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3 April 2003 |
Ambulance trolleys cause injuries |
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Patients and ambulance crews
are being harmed by faulty trolleys – so much so that the
government.................. |
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