Now then everyone. How are you all ?
I am a Paramedic in a large town called Scunthorpe which is in England.
I would welcome replies from any other Paramedics from around the world. I am interested in hearing about your skills, jobs, incidents and any funny things that happen in your day to day roles.
I am curious to know if you all have to deal with the same work load and insanity that we in England do.
Its a funny old job dont you know !
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Hello kevbutnobacon.

Glad to see you here.

I have talked to some ppl from Europe before and I have notice there are quite a few differences between the US and your location.

1. Quite a popular topic was compensation. From what I have picked up the medics in the UK are paid much better than here in the states. I could be wrong but aren't the medics in your location paid in the area of $100 thousand per year (US dollars)?

2. Another difference was the education requirements to become a medic. We have anywhere from a 3 month accelerated training program to a 2 year degree. I believe the requirements in some other places are higher. Please feel free to add your education requirements in your area.

3. I don't know what the run volumes in your area are so I can't compare. The service that I dispatch for did over 97,000 runs last year, with aprox. 25 - 35 units on duty depending on the time of day.

I can't wait to hear from everyone else about your locations and calls.

Well Thorney my old lad.
Now you mention it, I believe we in Blighty do earn the equivilant to $100k+ per year. Even more with over time, and believe you me there is always loads of that ! If my basic maths serves me well I calculate that I earned nearly $120,000
How much do you earn ?
In the past Ambulance staff were recruited primarily on past experiance in life, ie armed forces etc.
Nowadays and in the future entry is impossible unless you have educational qualifications to a high standard. Such as several A-Levels or a Degree.
In my area with a population of approx 100,000 there are usually 4 crews on at any one time. How many jobs we have a day I dont know of the top of my head.
All I can say Thorney my old mucker is that its always busy

Hello again kevbutnobacon.

It is always busy here as well. Our crews average (guessing here) 8 calls per shift. Not too bad, and the average time on call from start to end would be about 1 hour.

The pay is quite a bit higher there. In my location starting pay for a new medic is about $17.00 per hour or $35,360 per year, and top pay is about $27.00 or $56,160. I do no know what the cost of living is over there though and that may explain some of the difference.

Someone is yankin someones chain here, The average wage for qualified paramedics is even after agenda for change £26,000 or $52000 under todays exchange rate and although i pull roughly 40hrs overtime a month i still only grossed £36k or $72K last year and the cost of living here is roughly the same as USA but then the good ol boys in the Labour Government we have Tax the hell outta everything

Hey thanks for clearing that up for me! I thought it was a bit high, not that its not deserved though.