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Welsh Ambulance Service announces freeze on newly-qualified paramedic recruitment
Around 70 students face no newly qualified paramedic posts, and the service says graduates should consider EMT jobs or work overseas.
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No jobs for newly qualified paramedics trained in Wales
"We are a highly trained, motivated and ready to enter the workforce, instead, we are being advised to leave Wales," said one devastated student about to graduate from the Swansea University paramedic course.
Darren Millar, leader of the Welsh Conservatives, has criticized the Welsh Labor Government, following reports that newly qualified paramedics are being advised to look for work abroad due to a lack of recruitment in Wales.
SWANSEA: Nearly £10m of public money spent training paramedics who are now being told to look for work abroad
Paramedic students at Swansea University have been told they face no job prospects in Wales this year after the Welsh Ambulance Service confirmed a complete freeze on hiring newly qualified paramedics — with some students advised to seek work as far away as Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Around 61 of the 67 students expected to graduate with paramedic science degrees this summer are based at Swansea University, with the remaining six at Wrex…
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