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All posts originally published on the Broken Paramedic blog.

Broken Paramedic

The Least Worst Decisions

When I started blogging about healthcare issues over a decade ago, my motivation was to shine a light on the failings I had witnessed in over a decade working for an NHS ambulance trust. I managed that and was grateful for the opportunities it gave me to raise the alarm Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 1 week25/01/2023 ago
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Guilt Keeps Me in the NHS

My compulsion to stay working within the NHS is largely driven by guilt. As a healthcare professional, nothing I have experienced in the last decade under a Conservative government gives me much hope that things are going to improve in urgent and emergency care any time soon, but I can’t Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 3 years17/12/2019 ago
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Coping

I thought being a paramedic would help me cope with my parents’ deaths. Or even prevent them. I was wrong. Allow me to explain. When I first applied to Beds & Herts Ambulance & Paramedic Service in 2000, it was a partly a decision borne of a kind of naive, Read more…

By Mathew James Westhorpe, 4 years29/04/2019 ago
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Who Cares for the Carers?

Last week, I was invited to speak at the NHS Pathways National Partnership Forum, a gathering of 111 providers, clinical commissioning group representatives, technicians and policy-makers who are focused on improving the telephone assessment service. I took the opportunity to offer some insight into the ‘view from the trenches’ in Read more…

By Mathew Westhorpe, 7 years27/07/2016 ago
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Dear Ambulance Staff: Six 111 Myths and Misconceptions

Dear frontline ambulance colleagues, After 12 years of responding to 999 calls and subsequently watching from the sidelines as family and friends continue to do so, I am only too aware of the ever increasing pressures and the ongoing erosion of the ambulance clinicians’ lot. Poor staff support from within Read more…

By Mathew Westhorpe, 7 years19/02/2016 ago
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Does NHS 111 Work?

NHS 111 services sit in the eye of a nationwide healthcare storm. Amidst a chaotic vortex of hospitals in special measures, funding and resource concerns, escalating demand, demoralised healthcare staff and belligerent health ministers, the public continues to need treatment – and it is to the 24/7 medical helpline to Read more…

By Mathew Westhorpe, 7 years06/12/2015 ago
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Mission to Parliament: What Has Anthony Marsh Ever Done For Us?

Chloe Smith (Con), Norman Lamb (Lib Dem) and Daniel Zeichner (Lab) accept the petition from Fraer Stevenson Earlier this week, a group of East of England ambulance staff travelled to Westminster to deliver a petition appealing for better working conditions for road staff and to retain the services of the Read more…

By Mathew Westhorpe, 8 years23/07/2015 ago
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The Fight for Positive Change in Ambulance Trust Culture Needs You

In a country of beleaguered ambulance Trusts facing staffing shortages, pay freezes and dwindling resources, things are looking bleak right now for employees and the public alike. But there is a glimmer of hope. After a desperate few years, East of England Ambulance Service has been experiencing the beginnings of Read more…

By Mathew Westhorpe, 8 years15/07/2015 ago
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Saturday’s #EndAusterityNow March in Pictures

My thoughts on and reasons for attending the protest against the current government ideology can be read in my previous post, but as I spent much of my time taking snaps of the assembled masses (until my battery died), I thought I’d share some here. As I exited Bank tube Read more…

By Mathew Westhorpe, 8 years23/06/2015 ago
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Joining the Anti-Austerity March: Can it Make a Difference?

I maintain this blog because I feel strongly that ambulance clinicians are increasingly being mistreated and taken for granted by the organisations they work for, by the public and ultimately by the government. The intolerable impact of of this growing disregard is heartbreaking to witness as we ever more frequently Read more…

By Mathew Westhorpe, 8 years22/06/2015 ago

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