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SUPERBUG HAZARD
07/07/2008

Superbug hazard as medics 'stopped from cleaning ambulances'PATIENTS are being exposed to potentially lethal superbugs because ambulances aren't being cleaned properly.

Emergency workers in call for stab vests
07/07/2008

FRONTLINE emergency service workers last night called for stab vests to be introduced after health bosses gave them the green light.

A.P.A.P. GENERAL SECRETARY ELECTION
02/07/2008

Nominations are invited for the post of General Secretary, to be ratified at Conference 09.In accordance with the Union's Constitution.

Violence an occupational hazard for paramedics
30/06/2008

PARAMEDICS face assaults and even death threats as they respond to emergencies in the Lothians, it was revealed today.

Darzi outlines draft NHS constitution
30/06/2008

Lord Darzi today set out the seven principles that underlie the NHS - along with the rights and responsibilities that accompany them.

Darzi turns up heat on clinical leadership
30/06/2008

Health minister Lord Darzi has put clinical leadership at the centre of his next stage review.Clinicians must "step up" their work with managers and play their part in making "tough dec...

County's 999 Lottery
27/06/2008

PRIVATE ambulance companies are being used to cover emergencies in Gloucestershire.Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust is hiring private firms, including voluntary groups like St John Ambulance.

TRUST MAKES APOLOGY TO AMBULANCE BOSS
26/06/2008

A bitter war of words between senior ambulance chiefs has been settled with an apology by the NHS Trust.

Four sentenced over 999 assault
25/06/2008

Four people who admitted involvement in a "frightening" incident in which two paramedics were attacked, have been given non-custodial sentences.

Overtired 'ambos' make mistakes
25/06/2008

A survey by the Ambulance Employees Australia (AEA) has revealed that most errors of judgement made by paramedics can be attributed to exhaustion.