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•The doctor is expected to demonstrate a commitment to keep him/herself informed and practiced in current advances in basic immediate care techniques and attend regular refresher courses to update and maintain expertise, including meeting with colleagues, for the purposes of audit.

 

•Med-ALERT will not equip, and the Ambulance Service will not use a doctor who does not possess the following documentation:
a) A current General Medical Council Registration
b) Evidence of professional indemnity insurance
c) Evidence of Hepatitis B immunity
d) A Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Certificate or Diploma in Immediate Medical Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
e) A Safety at Scene certificate (or attendance at a Crew Command RTA module pre: 1998)
f) A Lancashire Police Driving Course certificate ( or Lancashire Ambulance Driving Course pre: 1999)
g) Attend a helicopter operations awareness session
h) Demonstrate correct radio procedure

Both existing and new doctors to Med-ALERT are required to either attend a minimum of one training session in each of the ten competency categories listed below within a three year period or to provide a certificate demonstrating equivalent contemporary training. Validation of competencies is certified for PDP purposes. Clinical Competency is demonstrated using clinical skills simulators, the actual practice of the skills within any given time frame would not be expected.

 The areas of competency required of a Practitioner member would be as follows:

Operational Environment Skills

Familiar with Radiocommunications

ePRF

Driving skills

Safety at Scene

Air Ambulance awareness

Resuscitation and Clinical Care Skills

ALS skills

Familiarity with all Joint Position statements

Familiarity with Equipment and Monitoring

Familiarity with Lifepack 12

Pulse oximetry

BIG ®

Sagar

KED

Paediatric and Obstetric Emergencies Skills

ALS for neonates 

Babies

child

 in pregnancy

 awareness of the management of normal delivery, breech, cord prolapse, eclampsia, antepartum & postpartum haemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, breech face to pubes.

Rescue and extrication skills management

Safety at Scene or VERICS attendance

Techniques of analgesia and sedation

Use of and legislation regarding Morphine

 Use of Ketamine, benzodiazepines

Pre-hospital Emergency Anaesthesia skills

Airway management skills

Use of Ketamine

Etomidate & Suxamethonium 

Special Incident Medical Support

CBRN issues

 Decontamination procedures

Major Incident Medical Support

MIMMS Awareness

Retrieval and transfer

Familiarity with Fire Service equipment

 Ambulance Service equipment

 Principles of packaging for transport in Air or Road Ambulance

 If a doctor failed to meet the standards of retained competence by the end of of the three year period, they will have a three month period in which to remedy the situation, and the option of an appeal to an assessment by one medical qualified Trustee, a non-Lancashire BASICS doctor of the individual’s choosing, and a Consultant in A&E from a Lancashire hospital (other than a Med-ALERT member). If they failed to meet the standard at this juncture they would be removed from the call-out and all equipment would have to be returned.

 

 

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