Journal Paramedic Practice (JPP)

The mandate for change or the emperor's new clothing?

Every year in accordance with section 13A(1) of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c.41), as amended by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7), the Secretary of State must publish a mandate...

SoMe, SoWhat? #SoEssential: using social media as a key learning and teaching tool

Professional guidance on the use of social media by paramedics has been issued by the College of Paramedics (CoP, 2016). This guidance covers how to use social media effectively and responsibly,...

Hazardous Area Response Teams: celebrating 10 years in the making and counting

The Hot Zone Working Project had been in operation since 2004 and was slowly but surely gathering its evidence on behalf of the Ambulance Service Association. At the same time, a Multi-Agency Initial...

Can handheld POC capillary lactate measurement be used with arterial and venous laboratory testing methods in the identification of sepsis?

Systematic searches identified 1 461 study abstracts which were evaluated against the inclusion/exclusion criteria for relevance. A total of 65 studies were potentially relevant and full texts were...

Paramedics and medicines: legal considerations

The HMR defines who can buy and possess medicines, and this is summarised in Appendix 1. There is an exemption for the purchase of general sales medicines; however, the supply chain for these...

A world class resource for the ambulance service: the NARU Education Centre

Since 2008, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit's (NARU) Education Centre has been dedicated to the improvement of specialist pre-hospital patient care delivered in especially challenging or...