First, a brief analysis is required to understand the paramedic profession's journey from their traditional background in ambulance services to working for primary care providers..
The concept of improved clinical leadership through non-medical consultant roles was first introduced in DH guidance Making a Difference (DH, 1999a), and was part of the wider modernisation agenda set...
In considering leadership as a process, it is important to recognise that it is a process which is fundamentally ‘human’. As such, it is vital that paramedics, the organisations they work for and the...
Telephone communication for consultation purposes is widely used in medicine (Thomas et al, 2001). This can range from nurses triaging patients, to the reporting of imaging or laboratory results....
The status of professions dates back to the Medieval age, leading to the establishment of ‘the three great professions of “law”, “divinity” and “medicine”‘ (i.e. lawyers, the clergy and doctors)...
The challenge is to view these problems as opportunities, and to bring together what may at first appear to be opposing perspectives in the development of innovative solutions. As such, ambulance...
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