Paramedics On and Off the Streets

Paramedics On and Off the Streets
Author: Michael K. Corman
Publsiher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781442629899

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In Paramedics On and Off the Streets, Michael K. Corman embarks on an institutional ethnography of the complex, mundane, intricate, and exhilarating work of paramedics in Calgary, Alberta. Corman’s comprehensive research includes more than 200 hours of participant observation ride-alongs with paramedics over a period of eleven months, more than one hundred first hand interviews with paramedics, and thirty-six interviews with other emergency medical personnel including administrators, call-takers and dispatchers, nurses, and doctors. At the heart of this ethnography are questions about the role of paramedics in urban environments, the role of information and communication technologies in contemporary health care governance, and the organization and accountability of pre-hospital medical services. Paramedics On and Off the Streets is the first institutional ethnography to explore the role and increasing importance of paramedics in our healthcare system. It takes readers on a journey into the everyday lives of EMS personnel and provides an in-depth sociological analysis of the work of pre-hospital health care professionals in the twenty-first century.

Ambulance Services

Ambulance Services
Author: Paresh Wankhade,Kevin Mackway-Jones
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2015-09-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9783319186429

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This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of the ambulance services against the backdrop of massive cuts in health budgets around the world and the changing context of pre-hospital care within the wider healthcare networks. The challenges of funding, training and cultural transformation are now felt globally. The need to learn and adapt from suitable models of ambulance service delivery have never been greater. The book offers critical insights into the theory and practice of strategic and operational management of ambulance services and the leadership needs for the service. One of the highlight of this volume is to bring together scholarship using experts- academics, practitioners and professionals in the field, to each of the chosen topics. The chapters are based in the practical experiences of the authors and are written in a way that is accessible and suitable for a range of audiences. We are confident that this book will cater to a wider audience to inform policy and practice, both in the UK and internationally. Paresh Wankhade is Professor of Leadership and Management at Edge Hill University, UK Kevin Mackway-Jones is the Medical Director at North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, UK Endorsements “This unique and valuable publication, charts the history and development of the ambulance service in England over the last hundred years or so. The role of this key emergency service has always been important, and arguably never more so than today. The contributing authors have not only provided the reader with great insights into where the service has come from and the leadership challenges it has, and continues to face; it also gives examples of how the future could look as our journey of transformation continues.” Peter Bradley CBE, MBA (and author of Taking Healthcare to the Patient 2005), Chief Executive Officer. St John National Headquarters, New Zealand "With a year on year increase in demand for emergency ambulances and over 9 million calls annually, the UK Ambulance Service must change from its emergency care and transport focus model. With the increase in professionalism of paramedics and an uplift in assessment and clinical skills the modern paramedic is increasingly able to treat at home, direct patients with alternative care pathways and avoid transportation to overburdened Emergency Departments. Whilst there is some historical and cultural resistance to change there is a need for further development in clinical skills and a new perspective for the future Ambulance Service. This book brings together practitioners, managers, academics and provides a broad understanding of the major management issues in the UK Ambulance Service. It includes the history of the Ambulance Service, quality and risk management issues, commissioning, leadership, intra-operability and shape of the future ambulance service. The content will be of interest to students, practitioners and academics". Sir Keith Porter, Professor of Clinical Traumatology, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom

Transforming NHS ambulance services

Transforming NHS ambulance services
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publsiher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2011-09-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0215561325

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In 2009-10 the eleven regional ambulance services in England handled 7.9 million emergency calls and spent 1.5 billion pounds on urgent and emergency services. They are expected to make 4 percent efficiency savings year on year in a time when public demand for services continues to rise. Performance was measured against three response time targets until 1 April 2011, but the incentive to meet these targets has led to some inefficiency, such as when more than one team is sent to incidents. The Committee welcomes the decision to introduce a wider suite of health quality indicators to create a broader performance regime in which response times remain one indicator. There is wide variation in the cost of responding to an incident across the services, and there is a need for more consistent performance data in order to benchmark and share best practice. Under the NHS reforms there is vagueness around who will be responsible for what: who commissions ambulance services; who is responsible for improving efficiency in ambulance services or who will intervene if a service has financial trouble or seriously under performs? There is need for greater clarity on the roles and responsibilities of the Department, commissioners and ambulance trusts with appropriate structures for accountability. Other parts of the Health service affect ambulance services and a more integrated emergency care system is needed to ensure that ambulances are utilised in the most efficient manner. Levels of collaboration between ambulance, fire and police services could be strengthened.

Transforming NHS ambulance services

Transforming NHS ambulance services
Author: Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publsiher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2011-06-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 010296971X

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The Department of Health has until recently been focusing on speed of response as a measure of performance of the ambulance service, rather than on clinical outcomes for patients. The ambulance service achieves high levels of public satisfaction but there are wide variations in ambulance trusts' efficiency and the NAO concludes that the system has not delivered the best value for money to date. The 8-minute response target, intended for the most seriously ill patients, is one of the most demanding in the world. However, its application has skewed ambulance trusts' approach to performance measurement and management. The target is also applied to a much wider group of patients than intended. The report identifies various inefficiencies in the system, with cost per incident varying between £176 and £251. There is scope across the urgent and emergency care system to make more of different ways of responding to patients, such as clinical advice to callers over the phone and taking patients to minor injuries units rather than A&E departments. If all 11 trusts adopted the best practice currently being used in at least one trust, the NHS could save £165 million a year. The elements of the emergency care system are not yet fully integrated and this leads to delays in turnaround times at hospital A&Es. Over one-fifth of patient handovers take longer than the recommended 15 minutes. The new clinical quality indicators introduced from April offer the potential for a fuller measurement of performance based on outcomes.

Ambulance Services in Rural Areas

Ambulance Services in Rural Areas
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 98
Release: 1975
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: STANFORD:36105045095242

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Ambulance Services in Rural Areas

Ambulance Services in Rural Areas
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1975
Genre: Ambulance service
ISBN: UOM:39015076078149

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Compendium of State Statutes on the Regulation of Ambulance Services

Compendium of State Statutes on the Regulation of Ambulance Services
Author: United States. Division of Emergency Health Services
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1969
Genre: Ambulance service
ISBN: MINN:31951000070928D

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Ambulance services Medicare payments can be better targeted to trips in less densely populated rural areas

Ambulance services Medicare payments can be better targeted to trips in less densely populated rural areas
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2003
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9781428938960

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