So after some time (arranging things with work, battering my computer into submission and have a day of doing nothing except "chilling out") I think I an finally reveal the 'big secret' that I have been using to keep you coming back to read this blog...

I'm still in the London Ambulance Service, and I've not been promoted - however the vehicle that I drive, and the role that I play will change.

I'm no longer going to be driving one of these... An old style ambulance Or even one of these... New shiny ambulance








But one of these... Rapid Response Unit

For the foreseeable future I am going to be on the Rapid Response Unit.

The role of the RRU is to get to emergency calls within eight minutes, thereby pleasing the government, and by extension, pleasing management.

I am to get to calls as quickly as possible, get a history off a patient and start treatment until an ambulance can arrive - I then leave the patient in the care of the ambulance crew and drive off looking for another emergency call. When I don't have a call to go on, I am to spend at least some time driving around the area in the hopes that I will be closer than an ambulance when a call does come in.

This means I have even more autonomy than working on an ambulance, because I am working on my own - there is no crewmate to bounce ideas off. There is also a better chance of things going horribly wrong - imagine having to deal with a cardiac arrest on your own, with distraught relatives knowing that there isn't going to be an ambulance for 30 minutes...

Still - it should be fun, especially considering that I'm starting this new rota with a Friday, Saturday, Sunday night.