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If you are coming from the US with any EMS qualification don;t expect to be jumped upon by the NHS services or the better end of the private / charitable providers - they will likely want to retrain you in the ways of JRCALC/AACE and you'll be in the same position as any other applicant (assuming you have the right to work in the UK). if you are all ready a US paramedic it will mean very little ( even some US trained RNs have difficulties in getting registered - although it;s mainly Associates only RNS thaty struggle - LPNs are NOT recognised in the UK - although there are / were getouts for civilian posts in US military facilities under the status of forces legislation) Access to UK Paramedic Education will depend on your immigration status - unless you have IDLR or are on a spouse visa you may well find you cannot apply for any Health professional course due to funding / placement provider restrictions as pre-reg numbers in the UK are centrally managed,l and for none medicla HCP education the numbers of places for none UK /EU students are very very tightly limited and often tied in with International development stuff . UK paramedics are Health Professionals registered with the HCPC http://www.hcpc-uk.org.uk/ and the university recruited programmes accept applications through UCAS http://www.ucas.com/ , any Student as employee courses will be advertised by the regional NHS Service through NHS Jobs https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/ there is a lot of competition for places you would also have to get a UK/EU manual car driving licence (cat and a UK/EU cat C1 medium goods vehicle licence (again manual transmission test is preferred although some services do have a mainly 2 pedal fleet) before tyou would be considered for employee routes and the University routes often require a car licence and C1 provisional if not C1 full - and those courseswhich require C1 provisional may expect you to fund your own C1 ...

Well, I have job security 3 times over. HA HA HA HA HA HA

Looks like I have job security, two times over, if you know what I mean.

I thought that religious discussions were verboten here? But the only thing I think the SCOTUS decided was that when a company is held (owned) by a few people (hence) hobby lobby, the Greens, that their beliefs translate to the company. That's my understanding. The SCOTUS did not say that a corporation owned by hundreds of shareholders falls under that same umbrella. And Yes to your question, if a company is owned by a few muslim men and they choose to say that it is their religious beliefs that all women who work for them wear the hijab, then I would expect the supreme court to uphold that belief as well, as long as that group of muslim men could prove that it would be detrimental to their religious beliefs to not do so, I would be in support of that. I have long said that we are going down a slippery slope that we might not want to go down, that what happens to christians may come back to bite them in the ass. Seriously, I'm a christian, I hate the fact that babies are aborted every day, I don't like the fact that I pay with my health insurance dollars at my company I work for, for women who I work with to go out and get those medications for free, but I know that abortion is legal and that honestly I cannot do anything about that woman doing what she is going to do, do I like it, hell no, but I can't do anything about it. Sad but true. I say if you don't like the fact that Hobby lobby won't pay for those 4 items, don't work for em, you know that they don't pay for it, you know they don't pay for it. If you do work for them and you know their stance, don't bitch and moan about them not paying for it if you want it. Go out and pay for it yourself. People need to take some gosh darn responsibility and gumption and not expect that other people are going to pay for everything that you refuse to pay for yourself. Everything in life isn't free or discounted. I'm struggling mightily this year financially yet I'm not going on any form of public assistance but I could qualify for some aid. I was raised to fix things myself rather than beg for help or expect it to be given to me. I'm having a bad day at work and my sugar's a little low so I might be a bit incoherent but many of my friends here get what I'm saying. And for the Sandra flukes out there, stop whining. And Ventmedic, er I mean Ihatelilpeepees, you will get no sympathy from me, go try to start shit elsewhere.