Capital City Paramedic is the true story of ambulanceman John E. Kinsley who served with the London Ambulance Service from March 1975 until September 1982.
The book follows his progress from selection and induction at the Waterloo headquarters of the LAS, on-road training at the hectic Bloomsbury accident and emergency ambulance station in Central London and through his work as a Leading Ambulanceman and Paramedic at several South London ambulance stations in the years that followed.
The huge area of operations covered by the London ambulance service, ensured that, in the course of his career, John attended just about every kind of emergency situation, including some extraordinary ones, including IRA terrorist attacks, the Brixton riots and the London visit of his holiness the Pope…
Those who have also served in the ambulance service will no doubt recognise many the characters and situations portrayed, whereas those with no experience in the emergency services will find this book to be a fascinating insight into the life and work of the ambulance crews that serve Britain’s capital city.
The stories are based on actual events, although some dates, names of patients, police officers, hospital medical staff and ambulance personnel have been changed, for obvious reasons...
