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The Future Role and Education of Paramedic Ambulance Service Personnel (Emerging Concepts)
Publications > The future role... > New developments
3. New developments
3.1 In recent years a
consensus has developed that education and experience needs to be
broadened and improved for those personnel involved in pre-hospital care
and specifically for paramedics [13]. In response to this perceived need
several local schemes have been set up, including degree courses in a
number of universities. These schemes, however, have developed
independently. They have not been coordinated and tend to have varying
objectives. Some are aimed more at providing managerial skills than
clinical competence and most recruit existing ambulance staff rather than
providing a career foundation.
3.2 Financial and
operational pressures on ambulance services have also been changing with
increasing emergency demand, grater emphasis on evidence-based medicine, a
constant search for better value for money and the need to respond to
wider changes in the Health Service. Public expectation of first class
emergency health care is also increasing, and the principles of clinical
governance support this requirement.
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