The Beyond the Sirens: Paramedics and End-of-Life Care podcast series has been designed to start a journey together, to spark innovative ideas, provide support for and raise awareness of the holistic and complex requirements of end-of-life care.
Produced by The End of Life Partnership in Cheshire, it consists of a series of six podcasts which were launched in July 2024, each one typically around 30 minutes in length.
The aim of these podcasts is to provide palliative and end of life education in a format that makes it more accessible to paramedics and other ambulance service staff.
We have brought together the expertise of those people who have a long-standing wealth of experience in end-of-life care. We also felt it was equally important to hear about real life examples from those in the field.
Topics the podcasts cover include:
- Palliative care and end of life care explained
- Communication skills
- Natural dying versus DNA CPR
- An interview with Edward O’Brian Macmillan Paramedic
- Discussion of total pain
- Topical areas of practice in end of life care for paramedics
They can be found on a variety of podcast sites – Please follow this link to access them Podcast for Paramedic | The End of Life Partnership (eolp.co.uk)
Community Specialist Paramedics Rob Whelan and Kieran Potts from North West Ambulance Service, contributed to two of the podcasts in the series, Kieran said “it was great to be asked to contribute to these, they will help our staff by sharing our thoughts, beliefs and experiences – in the hope that this provides insight and assurance in relation to the difficulties these situations can present for us and colleagues”