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Podcast: Pre-Hospital Care Podcast
Episode: The 'seesaw balance of frustration and contentment'. Retention in the world of frontline ambulance staff with Carl Betts
Description: In this conversation I talk with Carl Betts about his reflections on paramedic retention in contemporary practice. Carl is a paramedic and quality improvement lead based in Sheffield working for the ambulance service. He has been a paramedic for 10 years and also has a 10-year extensive history of expeditions across the globe. We examine this article, Carl’s motivations for writing it, and pull out some of the salient learning points from his reflection in this interview. We examine some of the metaphorical warning lights that Carl describes (demand, resourcing, external management pressure), the spill over of GP work, e-c...