By East of England Ambulance Service
General Broadcast covers the whole of the Ambulance service, from clinical to non-technical skills, from best practice to learning from incidents and more.
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The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.
TRIGGER WARNING- this podcast talks about the death of premature babies.
Working in the community means that clinicians can be faced with any type of incident. This means needing the right equipment to deal with whatever they face.
In the tragic and rare cases where a premature baby has died, it has been in the past difficult to find a safe and dignified solution for baby to be transported with parents. The cuddle pocket is designed to be a compassionate way of carrying a baby from the community to the hospital.
Back in 2021, Damon Wheddon, Clinical Lead, sat down with Jordan Nicholls, Jenni McClagish and Denise Kendall to talk about how the Trust commissioned the pockets and how to use them.
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In this episode Joanna Wells talks to Liam Dunn, Head of Patient Safety along with Patient Safety Specialists, Kirsty Wilson, Sancha Dennehy, Jen McClagish.
They discuss who the Patient Safety Team are, what do they do as a team, what they look at and what the teams responsibilities are..
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It's important to think about how we are safe on the front line, doing the work day in and day out, but how do our polices, processes and practices across an entire organisation impact the safety of our work?
Steven Shorrock is an interdisciplinary humanistic, systems and design practitioner interested in human work from multiple perspectives. He currently specialises as a human factors and safety specialist in air traffic control in Europe, but has worked across most safety critical sectors.
We talk about how policies can interfere with each other, how hierarchy impacts performance and reflecting on incidents in this fascinating chat.
Steven's blog can be found here Humanistic Systems and he's also on Twitter @StevenShorrock.
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This episode is in two parts.
In the first part, Stroke Lead, Dan Philips is in a Q&A session with Kayleigh Martin, where Dan explains the 10-10 project that aims to reduce time on scene for seriously unwell patients. The second part is also with Dan Philips and Dr Sajid Alam, Stroke Lead from Ipswich Hospital on the reasons why 10-10 is a good idea.
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Critical care paramedics bring more than just advanced clinical skills, they also have a huge amount of non-technical tricks can help keep patients and staff safe at scene and make the best choices.
This week, Patient Safety Integration Lead Jordan sits down (virtually) with Lou Rosson and Chris Neil, who break down what happens before they get to a job, what they're thinking at scene and how they rely on the team to make the best decisions for the patient.
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Dr Esther Murray is a Health Psychologist working at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. She has a keen interest in moral injury, the term used when people are witness to shocking or traumatic events that change their outlook on the world.
Our previous Patient Safety Integration Lead, sat down with Esther on the phone to talk about moral injury and how it can impact ambulance crews, as well as what we can all do to help each other.
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We all have to deal with pressure. Sometimes it's minor like "do I go left or right at the roundabout?". Sometimes it's the difference between life and death. But how can we manage and work with that pressure, rather than against it?
Dr Stephen Hearns is a critical care doctor and search and rescue specialist in Scotland, who has spent his career understanding what pressure is and how he can try to handle it in stressful times. His book 'Peak Performance Under Pressure' goes into detail about the tools and techniques we can all use to manage stress when the going gets tough.
This week, Jordan and Stephen talk about why pressure is sometimes good for us, how to recognise stress in other and what to do when you're maxed out.
Stephen can be found at his website https://corecognition.co.uk/
His online courses can be found at https://www.corecognitioncourses.co.uk/
He's also on Twitter @StephenHearns1
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Childbirth in the community can be one of the most challenging jobs any frontline clinician faces.
In this episode, our previous Patient Safety Integration Lead, Jordan, sat down with our Clinical Lead, Daimon Wheddon and Rose Bedford, Consultant Midwife in East and North Herts NHS Trust. They talk about common challenged with delivery, misconceptions and top tips about what to do when delivering a baby.
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There are few roles like the emergency services, where you train to deal with the unexpected in challenging environments, but most of those roles are based in the military. None more so than flying a jet fighter into a war zone. Having to think and work under extreme pressure, all while controlling a machine capable of breaking the sound barrier. It's a tall order.
Mandy Hickson was the only female pilot on her Front Line Tornado Squadron, flying multimillion pound fast jets for the Royal Air Force. She has operated in hostile environments, including patrolling the 'No Fly' zone over Iraq. Carrying the latest weaponry she and her unit were ready to drop ordnance on any target in support of operations.
As a trained Human Factors facilitator with the Civil Aviation Authority, Mandy uses her in depth knowledge of aviation, calculated risk taking, decision making under pressure and the critical role of the human in the system to transfer these lessons from the cockpit to the corporate boardroom.
Emily Crosby is a Newly Qualified Paramedic in EEAST with a keen interest in crew resource management and and the psychological factors of working in a stressful environment. Her interest in these topics makes her perfect to talk with Mandy, to compare and contrast experiences and help show how people fresh in a challenging role can learn from experience.
Mandy's book can be found here
Twitter:@MandyHickson
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The podcast currently has 20 episodes available.