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Dr Jo Mildenhall (PhD) 💛💜
@jojoresearch.bsky.social
Social & Organisational Chartered Psychologist, Counsellor & Paramedic. Researcher of trauma as applied to first responders. Interested in intergroup relations, emotional & behavioural responses & organisational culture. Paramedic Psych Heath Mgr @ CoP CF
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Join us for the next JoPP leadership webinar! Our guest speaker is @jojoresearch.bsky.social who will draw on her recent PhD findings @uoysbs.bsky.social on ambulance workers during the COVID pandemic. All welcome - NHS, ambulance and beyond. May 14th 6pm UK time.
May 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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🏄‍♂️ As part of our Rejuvenate. Thrive. Breathe. (RTB) wellness programme, we’ve partnered with our colleagues at Surfwell to bring free surf therapy to our full members!

📅 Sessions will be running on:
16th June, 3rd October and 15th October

To sign up ➡️ bit.ly/4j3HZNH
April 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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🍽️ We are delighted to share that we will run a new 4-part webinar series on Nutritional Coaching.

Part 1: Food for Energy
🗓️ Thursday 1st May
🕛 12:00 – 13:00 PM

Click here to learn more and secure your place ➡️ bit.ly/3G6d58C
April 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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The Wellbeing and Resilience Workbook for Ambulance Clinicians contains:
✏️60+ activities to establish mindfulness and increase mental resilience
🚑Case studies and real life scenarios
📊Tables and diagrams
📖Digestible, easy to read sections

Find out more: bit.ly/WellbeingResilWorkbook
March 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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The Wellbeing and Resilience Workbook for Ambulance Clinicians is your go-to guide for reflecting on high-pressure situations within the ambulance service. Engage in over 60 interactive activities and tools designed to establish mindful habits and develop mental resilience.🚑

bit.ly/WellbeingRes...
January 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Mental Health Care in Paramedic Practice is the first #guide written for #paramedics to support their understanding of different #mentalhealth conditions.

"This is a difficult subject and it's nice to finally have a text written by paramedics, for paramedics" - Ash Hanson, Lecturer
January 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Importantly, @tracyniks.bsky.social highlights
the moral injury and mental health impact upon paramedics, leading to a discussion re: healthcare practitioners.

#Paramedics #MoralInjury #NHS #flu #Covid
📻 On Saturday the 4th of January, Tracy Nicholls OBE, Chief Executive of the College of Paramedics, appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme to discuss the immense pressures facing paramedics on the frontline.

To find out more click here ➡️ bit.ly/40iGNiu
January 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Really great to hear that Thames Valley Police are investing in behavioural science to tackle
organisational & cultural issues to improve wellbeing & the occupational environment. These perspectives will add real insight and value towards positive and sustained cultural change.
January 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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PHEM/HEMS/Paramedicine/Retrieval Pack 1 is now full. 150 accounts to get you started. Will commence Pack 2 once a few more folk have arrived!

go.bsky.app/NWQRhE1
December 31, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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To help manage winter pressures, three in 10 NHS staff said they were likely to turn to services that support their wellbeing, such as helplines, counselling, and free or subsidised gym or exercise classes.

Read more from our latest research at nhscharitiestogether.co.uk/nhs-work-nam....
NHS work named most difficult job in festive period - NHS Charities Together
Our latest study* has revealed nearly three quarters (72%) of the 2,000 UK adults surveyed said NHS staff have the hardest job this time of year, with many acknowledging the mounting pressure and stre...
nhscharitiestogether.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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The Wellbeing and Resilience Workbook for Ambulance Clinicians is now available! This workbook offers 60+ interactive activities and tools to establish mindful habits and develop mental resilience.🚑

Get yours here: bit.ly/WellbeingRes...
@paramedicsuk.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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Great to see another important resource from Class to support clinicians within our amazing emergency services. Well done authors Laura, Blaire and Jo, congratulations on the publication of your brilliant new book!
The Wellbeing and Resilience Workbook for Ambulance Clinicians is now available! This workbook offers 60+ interactive activities and tools to establish mindful habits and develop mental resilience.🚑

Get yours here: bit.ly/WellbeingRes...
@paramedicsuk.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Ambulance services attendance for mental health and overdose before and during COVID-19 in Canada & UK: ITS study-significant drop in overdose attendance in both country regions-mental health attendance increased in UK region only www.cahru.org.uk/research/par...
publichealth.jmir.org/2024/1/e46029
Ambulance Services Attendance for Mental Health and Overdose Before and During COVID-19 in Canada and the United Kingdom: Interrupted Time Series Study
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic impacted mental health and health care systems worldwide. Objective: This study examined the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on ambulance attendances for mental health and...
publichealth.jmir.org
November 28, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Welcome to Bluesky @paramedicsuk.bsky.social 🚑
November 26, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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Emergency medical service interventions and experiences during pandemics: A scoping review: despite concern for own and families’ safety and lack of knowledge, training, PPE and protocol changes, EMS staff reported for duty #PHEM #MedSky #AcademicSky
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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November 23, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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Today, on the 37th anniversary, an appropriate time to revisit the excellent study of behaviour in the King's Cross Fire, by Ian Donald & David Canter

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Intentionality and fatality during the King's Cross underground fire
Research has shown that the behaviour of people in fires and other emergencies is characterized by internally rational, socially and cognitively structured action. It has not been possible to date to...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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#ParamedicineSky - let’s regrow the community 💛 pls tag more to help us find each other 👇🏼 go.bsky.app/BZpAcQN
November 16, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Latest research: This study explores the lived experiences of paramedics who were exposed to suicide in the course of their everyday work in New Zealand
‘How can you not be traumatised’: Experience of paramedics occupationally exposed to suicide - Renan Lopes de Lyra, Sarah K. McKenzie, Gabrielle Jenkin, Susanna Every-Palmer, 2024
Background: Exposure to suicide is widely recognised as a major occupational hazard for mental health professionals due to the impacts this can have on their pr...
journals.sagepub.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Latest research: This study of paramedics/ doctors ‘emphasises the importance of the opportunity for recovery to avoid the negative consequences of repeated & sustained physiological activation on health & wellbeing through the manifestation of burnout’
Assessing the psychobiological demands of high-fidelity training in pre-hospital emergency medicine - Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Background Individuals who provide critical emergency care mount rapid psychobiological responses when faced with an incident. These responses are adaptive and ensure resources at time of demand; howe...
sjtrem.biomedcentral.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:32 PM
After years of work, I’m so happy to have taken delivery of one of the first copies of our new book ahead of publication day on Tuesday 19th Nov!
November 14, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Shift workers and the health impacts of working nights.

“…after nine years I’d lost my body clock. I’d be in a room full of people and feel so disconnected”.
Heart attacks, diabetes, divorce: tackling the dangers faced by UK’s army of night workers
Night Club, which has helped more than 10,000 workers recover their physical and psychological wellbeing, now has four demands for Labour
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2024 at 6:40 PM
A little late as am on shift and it’s been busy but…
We will remember them.
November 10, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Beautiful day for a hike! Good for the soul to feel the warmth of the sun, hear the birds singing and see the leaves glistening in the morning light.
October 27, 2024 at 7:00 PM