Tom Reynolds is the pseudonym

Pseudonym

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 of Brian Kellett, a nurse and once emergency medical technician

Emergency medical technician

Emergency Medical Technician or Ambulance Technician are terms used in some countries to denote a healthcare provider of emergency medical services...

 for the London Ambulance Service

London Ambulance Service

The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust is the largest "free at the point of contact" emergency ambulance service in the world. It responds to medical emergencies in Greater London, England, with the ambulances and other response vehicles and over 5,000 staff at its disposal.It is one of 12...

, England

England

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, whose award winning

blog, Random Acts of Reality, has been published in two books, Blood, Sweat & Tea

Blood, Sweat & Tea

Blood, Sweat & Tea is a book by ambulance technician Brian Kellett, writing under the pseudonym Tom Reynolds, about life in the London Ambulance Service....

 in 2006 and More Blood, More Sweat & Another Cup of Tea in 2009. His career in the NHS

National Health Service (England)

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 started at the age of 23 when he worked as an Accident and Emergency nurse. Since beginning his blog he has been interviewed in newspapers, television and radio;

and now provides opinion pieces on medical care in some UK newspapers.

His first book was used as the basis for the Channel 4

Channel 4

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 series Sirens

Sirens (UK TV series)

Sirens is a British comedy-drama about an ambulance service team broadcast on Channel 4. It was first screened on 27 June 2011.The series is based on the book Blood, Sweat & Tea by Brian Kellett. The series is filmed predominantly in Leeds with some filmed in the surrounding areas...

, which first aired in June 2011.