So...Whats it all about?

I have been in the ambulance Service for ten years and I am currently a Paramedic Training Officer for a UK Ambulance Trust.

I have also recently completed my Emergency Care Practitioners PG Dip and am working towards a MSc in Remote Healthcare.

Over the last year I have been setting up a project with the local Emergency Department and the lead consultant. The plan is to create a new role within the ED of a Emergency Department Paramedic. The ED Paramdic will work directly for the consultant in charge of the shift and be fully accountable to him. The exact nature of the role is uncertain but is intended to mirror quite closely the Physicians Assistant role used in the US.

On the 14th February I began a 6 month, full time, pilot study to see whether this role will be effective...