- Prehospital and mass gathering system design
- Development and/or review of current prehospital treatment guidelines for basic, intermediate, advanced and critical care transfer services
- Advice on optimal prehospital pharmacopeia for basic, intermediate, advanced and critical care transfer services
- Advice, support and evaluation for the design of prehospital vehicles
- Patient transport, low (HDU) and high acuity (ICU) ambulances
- Specialist (command units or special incident response)
- Mobile or static first aid units/clinics
Support with best buy options and review of spend
- Advice, support and independent evaluation of capital purchases (high value items e.g., defibrillator or low value large volume e.g., ambulance dressings) to include independent advice to tender or evaluation committee.
- Forensic review of top 10 spend and top 10 purchases so as to identify cost savings
Clinical governance, service improvement and audit
- Able to provide independent external governance either on-site (based on short term visit) or as a remote consultant
- Case review
- Incident trend analysis
- Providing deep dive ‘case specific audits’
- Setting and monitoring clinical ‘key performance indicators’
- Advice and support in setting up electronic data bases
Training
- Development and/or review of current prehospital training programmes to support basic, intermediate, advanced and critical care transfer services
- Advice (panel member if requested) on recruitment of prehospital instructors for short-term deployment or employment as service employee
- Provision of external quality review of training program
Mass gatherings
- Advice support on running mass gatherings to include
- Recruitment of temporary staff
- Minimum equipment and pharmacopeia for basic, intermediate, advanced responders
- Development of be-spoked training programs
- Post event case review
Policy
- Advice, support and if required policy writing to meet service needs. This can be a generic template policy or be-spoked following an in country system review. Example of policies
- Major incident response
- CBRN response
Recruitment
- Advice (panel member if requested) on recruitment of trained prehospital clinicians or the optimal in-hospital clinician groups to be trained to work in the prehospital arena. Specific experience recruiting from
- The UK
- Ireland
- Canada
- South Africa
- India
- Philippines
- Jordan
- Tunisia
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Established working relationships with recruitment agencies