Alot of people seem to be stuck on the fact that there's hardly any Paramedics and yet there's hardly any University spaces. Unfortunately there's not enough Paramedics on the road, but there's two major points that come to mind in this discussion. The first being that there's only a limited number of Paramedic Mentors out there, so the university could accomodate about 1000 students with the size of some lecture halls, there is just unfortunately not enough Paramedic Mentors out there to over see the work being undertaken by these students, patient care comes paramount all the time to anything. I wouldn't like to be the Ambulance Service official to be the one who has to tell a family that they sent a Student Paramedic and Technician to somebody suffering from a MI and that they could have been saved if either of them had authorisation to deliver drugs. The second one and this is going to be the brutally harsh one is that there's 600 applicants, and 20 places. The Universities have the luxary to pick the Extra Special (yeh I used to work for ASDA) cream of the crop. Unlike a lot of other HCP Paramedics work autonomous to Dr's so they have to be the very best they can be. It's a harsh world, especially when you get rejected, you've just got to make yourself better for next time and prove to them that you do have the ability to become a Paramedic. There's no career like one in the Ambulance Service let me assure you, if you get knocked down just get up and brush yourself off, those that don't aren't meant to be Paramedics.