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Is it possible to reduce unplanned hospital admission for older people with dementia?
Why and How are the Emergency ambulance services involved in unexpected support of older people with dementia in residential care homes? A group of researchers look about older people, resident in care homes, with limited life expectancy…
NHS Marsh Scandal: "A very bad message to front-line staff"
The BBC reveal that an ambulance service boss who earns more than the Prime Minister, claimed £30,000 in 2013 and 2014 for outlay regarding hotel and transport. Antony Marsh, the head of the West Midlands and East of England Ambulance…
Ebola, "The international response continue to be inadequate"
LIBERIA – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is rapidly scaling up its presence in all the country where Ebola outbreak is a national problem. The organization have a new operation centre in Liberia, to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.…
Canadian designer create "SurvivER" a new kind of ambulance for 2030
CHARLES BOMBARDIER on The Globe and Mail
Our Prototypes column introduces new vehicle concepts and presents visuals from designers who illustrate the ideas. Some of them will be extensions of existing concepts, others will be new, some will…
Levels of mental health problems among UK emergency ambulance workers
P. Bennett,Bristol Doctoral Clinical Psychology Training Programme, Universities of Plymouth and Exeter, UK
Y Williams, Welsh Ambulance Trust, UK
N Page, Department of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK
K Hood,Department of General…
Time Is Money, But How Much? The Monetary Value of Response Time for Ambulance
This study shows that using a logistic regression analysis makes it possible to find a correlation between response time and the severeness of injury.
The monetary values for ambulance emergency services were calculated for two different…
NHS review: transforming urgent and emergency care services in England
NHS England published an update on the Urgent and Emergency Care Review, which builds on NHS England’s future vision for urgent and emergency care in Transforming urgent and emergency care services in England.
This report can be downloaded…
Cheltenham: Ambulance driver suspended after two pedestrians injured in crash
(GLOUCESTERSHIRE ECHO) - An ambulance driver has been suspended from duty, pending investigations, after a crash with two pedestrians while on the way to attend an emergency call.
The two pedestrians, who remain in hospital with serious…
Incredible ambulance crash in Netherlands
At Candlemas, near Rouveen, an ambulance landed on its side in a unilateral accident. The accident happened on the Hasselterweg.
Emergency Ambulance Redesign: a user-centred approach (PART 2)
EMERGENCY AMBULANCE REDESIGN PART 1
Article by Gianpaolo Fusari
For the past 30 years, ambulances and the service they provide has been focused on transporting patients to hospital with little treatment in between. But the science and…