Faculty:Health, Medicine and Social Care
School:School of Allied Health and Social Care
Course: BSc (Hons) Paramedic Science
Hello all! My name is Alex. I am a 19-year-old student paramedic with the London Ambulance Service, studying BSc (Hons) Paramedic Science at Anglia Ruskin University. I am a second year student at ARU’s Chelmsford campus and have my frontline ambulance placement in central London. I live in the city centre with fellow students in my cohort and my parents live in Brighton and Swansea. I am very active here at Anglia Ruskin; I am in the Chelmsford Men’s Badminton Team for the university and we regularly have fixtures both at home and away. Outside of university I am a volunteer photographer and speaker for London’s Air Ambulance, further supported by my interest in portraiture and street photography with cinematic film production.
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11 August 2017
Alex describes his ambulance placement shift with the Joint Response Unit (JRU). It's a branch of special operations where a paramedic will only respond to police-generated calls or emergency 'Red 1' call-outs. Read more…
11 August 2017
Alex describes his busy emergency calls for his final shifts of ambulance service placement: including chest compressions and an uncooperative stab wound victim. Read more…
8 August 2017
Camden ambulance station, Friday: three crews were at base all enjoying a rare occurrence - being sent back for break! Then the call came in... Read more…
3 August 2017
Life on placement with the London Ambulance Service is certainly never quiet. On a recent night shift in Camden, I attended 11 patients as part of a Fast Response Unit. Read more…
12 July 2017
Alex deals with a traumatic cardiac arrest and a man hurt by a washing machine on placement with his fast response unit. Read more…
12 July 2017
My return to frontline emergency ambulance placement has been met with blood, flesh, bones, tears, torn clothes and distraught relatives. Read more…
20 June 2017
Alex talks about the Patient Assessment and Management module, scenario work practicing trauma and critical care (and pretending to be a patient) and making films about his Paramedic Science course. Read more…
31 May 2017
My out-of-ambulance placement has concluded, with two weeks at a secure mental health hospital, and in district nursing. We're now halfway through our Paramedic Science degree. Read more…