Medals in the Ambulance service.

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Never really thought about this but lots of pictures from Remembrance services with paramedics in full uniform with medals.
Wonder why other NHS staff don’t have uniforms and medals.
A medal for bringing folk back from the dead.
Number of heart transplants carried out.
Etc etc.

Seems a lot are long service medals.

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Downward said:

Never really thought about this but lots of pictures from Remembrance services with paramedics in full uniform with medals.
Wonder why other NHS staff don’t have uniforms and medals.
A medal for bringing folk back from the dead.
Number of heart transplants carried out.
Etc etc.

Seems a lot are long service medals.

Don't forget that a lot of Paramedics etc served in the armed forces before joining the ambulance service. Also a lot of NHS personnel are also in the reserve services.

[Downward]

Yeah I know the hospitals host the RCDM but yeah the Ambulance service does seem to be more military than NHS though.

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Downward said:

Yeah I know the hospitals host the RCDM but yeah the Ambulance service does seem to be more military than NHS though.

Less so than the Fire and Police though. Both of whom also have ex military in their ranks.

[nordboy]

They'll have long service medals, jubilee and coronation medals I would have thought? The same as the police.

[Ian Geary]

I have an NCT aquaintance in an ambulance service. He recently picked up a 20 year service medal for NHS workers in non front line roles.

He also got a COVID "campaign" type medal.

He's an it consultant. To be fair to him, he wasn't one for those back office types who wore their green uniform or waved their NHS badge around to supermarkets during COVID to get first pick for the toilet roll.

However IT bods as well as revenues and benefits staff at my place (local authority) worked ridiculous hours during COVID to get new payment systems and integrations up and tested so that funds and equipment could get to the right places quickly, but as someone says, uniformed services tend to have a more military mindset.

Let's not mention their approach to edi though - I have heard some pretty rough things from ex-staff about behaviour at this ambulance service, and if the fire service is anything to go by then their HR departments will be busy people (protecting male managers from claims).


All that glitters etc.

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1st hit on the news !

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-6...


https://news.sky.com/story/ambulance-services-must...


https://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/articles/n...


Wonder how much is spent on these reviews ?
The staff turnover is massive just a production line of folks training up and then leaving.

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Edited by Downward on Monday 11th November 08:16

[Rusty Old-Banger]

Downward said:

Never really thought about this but lots of pictures from Remembrance services with paramedics in full uniform with medals.
Wonder why other NHS staff don’t have uniforms and medals.
A medal for bringing folk back from the dead.
Number of heart transplants carried out.
Etc etc.

Seems a lot are long service medals.

You'd need a lot of medals. It's not one person carrying out a transplant, not one person saving a life. Someone has an issue on hospital and needs saving - you have the junior doctor doing the airways, the nurse doing the CPR, the senior doc directing everything, the cleaning staff making sure the stuff is sterile, they all saved that life, not just one person (I don't know the exact details but you get the idea - this is just what I've gleaned from a fairly senior NHS doc mate of mine).