Tom Wallace, the deputy chief of support service for Winnipeg Fire
Paramedic Service from Winnipeg; and
In some areas, the NHS is so shortstaffed it is paying PS30 an hour for agency
paramedics - around double the basic NHS rate.
It also recognises the skills of our staff as the
paramedic role develops into the 21st century.
And there are some vehicle types that may have had a
paramedic on board, but would not be as standard.
Emergency Medical Technicians are highly trained clinicians and have a wide range of support available to them including a direct line to an advanced
paramedic.
The fire service and
paramedics entered the property to rescue the two occupants inside, an elderly man and woman.
Paramedics deal with a range of situations from minor wounds to serious injuries caused by a major road or rail accident, for example.
At present, once a
paramedic has handed a patient over to a hospital, no further information is exchanged.
In the first four weeks of the scheme going live, the
paramedics attended 108 calls in the local area and also attended community events.
AP) -- Minnesota is pushing to train a few hundred "community
paramedics," a new kind of health care provider intended to make up for the lack of doctors and nurses in rural areas.
Winnipeg recently merged fire and
paramedic services and maintains fire trucks with at least one firefighter-
paramedic on board, claiming it saved taxpayers about $1 million annually.
Being a
paramedic was new; it didn't feel like a secure profession to many.
