Ambulance Driver Training - Process, procedures and instructor training
1. What is the relationship between the NHS Association of Ambulance Chief Executives and the Driver Training Advisory Group (DTAG)
2. What is the purpose of the Driver Training Advisory Group (DTAG)?
3. How is the Driver Training Advisory Group (DTAG) financed?
4. What are the performance indicators for DTAG and how are they set and monitored by the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives?
5. How is DTAG audited for accountability, for instance, with the publication of learning and training resources for new ambulance drivers and their students
6. How is DTAG resourced, for instance, how are funds allocated to pay for its functions?
7. What procurement procedures are in place to control how DTAG allocates contracts, for instance, the choice of FutureQuals as the Awarding body?
8. How does the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives ensure that DTAG is maintaining consistent and uniform standards when delivering ambulance driver training?
9. What checks are made on FutureQuals for consistency and uniformity in the delivery of ambulance driver training (L3CERAD) and the ambulance driving instructor award (L4DERADI)?
10. How can the anomaly exist that DTAG’s Chairman belongs to an NHS Trust, yet his employer SWAST has not used the FutureQuals programme for training new ambulance students?
11. How does the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives and the Driver Training Advisory Group (DTAG) account for the East Midlands Ambulance Service creating their own award for ambulance students with Nottingham Trent University?
12. How does the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives and the Driver Training Advisory Group (DTAG) account for differences in content and standard required between different private service providers and the NHS Trusts, delivering the Level 4 Diploma in Emergency Response Driving Instruction (L4DERADI) Conversion Award?
13. Does DTAG make additional salary payments to those already employed by the NHS?
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Dear Mr Lavender,
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training. I have been asked to reply.
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