Opinion

Stamping out poor attitudes and raising the rainbow flag

‘When we set up the National Ambulance LGBT Network in 2015, we wanted it to be an organisation that really made a difference to patients and their staff. .

Social prescribing: surely, we are not just going to prescribe tea and biscuits

Wider social determinants such as income, social class, occupation and parental occupation, level of education, housing condition, neighbourhood quality, geographic region, gender and ethnicity are...

Ambulances, outdoor air quality and health

This quality standard reinforces the importance of tackling air pollution, especially given its negative impact on children, the elderly and those living with a lung disease. The standard demands a...

Clinical decision making in paramedic practice

Decision making is a complex process (Standing, 2010) and decisions made by paramedics are based on a variety of information sources such as experience, knowledge, experience of others, research and...

Should reflection be used as a form of assessment?

Boud (2001:2) describes reflection as a process of ‘turning experience into learning’, with the aim of ‘exploring experience in order to learn new things from it’. Duckworth et al (2010) expand on...