Placement poverty is real and affects paramedic students. That is why they need to be included in the new Commonwealth Prac Payment initiative, like other critical workers like nurses, midwifes and teachers.

Resuscitative thoracostamies need to be prehospital if you are going to do then at all. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Paramedics in GP practices reduce load on GP but some fine-tuning needed. bjgp.org/content/75/7...

Victoria passed legislation to enable Masters level Paramedics to prescribe medication. www.premier.vic.gov.au/australias-f...

Respect for volunteers in experiments. Fascinating look back to the 1950s. One hopes they got informed consent. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Dates have been released for one of best Paramedic Conferences in the world. Australasian College of Paramedicine International Conference (ACPIC) is in Brisbane 10-12 September 2025. paramedics.org/events/ACPIC...

Evidence Based graffiti.

The Northern Territory is a very challenging place to deliver paramedical services. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

UK based Online Critical Care Symposium. Great to see Callum Sutton and Ben Meadley presenting collegeofparamedics.co.uk/COP/Events/E...

The Irish Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council has released their Research Strategy. www.phecit.ie/PHECC/Resear...

I feel like I shouldn't have to keep saying this, but it astonishes me that it keeps happening: If your patient has a very obvious, painful, traumatic injury, give them analgesia. Give them proper doses & give it early. Yes, even if they aren't screaming. Don't let people suffer quietly. #MedSky

A terminal patient contemplates Rembrandt paintings at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, one final time. March 2015. Photo credit: St. Ambulance Wens.

For Australian (or other) Paramedics wondering what it would look like, here is the UK experience of Paramedics in Primary Care clinics. Lead by PhD Paramedic Dr Georgette Eaton @georgette-eaton.bsky.social paramedicsinprimarycare.info

This human factors paper is for anesthetists be applied to paramedicine. associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Dr Oz to head USA's Medicare system. Add this to JFK Jr as health secretary and welcome to a four year experiment that would never get through an ethics committee. So glad the rest of world is in the control arm.