Usage of GPs within ambulance service
Dear Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust,
Please can you provide me with:
1) The number of General Practitioners employed by your trust within your clinical hub who act to prevent ambulance dispatching and increase hear and treat rates. Please break down into full-time/part-time/bank staff.
2) Does your trust employee a General Practitioner on a vehicle to respond in person to 999 calls. If so, please provide further details of this such as non-conveyance rates for this and interventions they provide (i.e wound care, supply antibiotics, etc.)
3) How many Emergency Care Practitioners (Specialist Paramedics in Urgent Care) your trust employ. Please break down into full-time/part-time/bank staff.
4) What the non-conveyance rates are for your Emergency Care Practitioners.
Yours faithfully,
Conor Calby
Dear Conor Calby,
Your request for information has been received and will now be processed by the Trust.
Your reference is: 17219
Regards.
Jeff Prescott
Dear Conor Calby,
Could you please provide clarification for Question 3 - 'How many Emergency Care Practitioners (Specialist Paramedics in Urgent Care) your trust employ. Please break down into full-time/part-time/bank staff'.
The Emergency Care Practitioner descriptor which the Trust used to use for Advanced Paramedic Practitioners is no longer used in the Electronic Staff Record. The Trust now use one descriptor, specifically for Advanced Paramedic Practitioners, however, there is a separate code group for Specialist Practitioners which include a number of different roles.
For the purposes of this request, should the Trust use 'Advanced Paramedic Practitioners' instead of 'Emergency Care Practitioner'?
Regards,
Jeff Prescott
Dear Jeff Prescott (Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust - 020),
That will be fine thanks.
Yours sincerely,
Conor Calby
Dear Jeff Prescott (Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust - 020),
Yes please. ADVANCED PARAMEDIC PRACTITIONER seems suitable.
Yours sincerely,
Conor Calby
Dear Conor Calby,
Please find attached the response to your request under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
Regards.
Jeff Prescott
Jeff Prescott LL.B (Hons)
Swyddog Cefnogi Corfforaethol/Corporate Support Officer
Ymddiriedolaeth GIG Gwasanaethau Ambiwlans Cymru/Welsh Ambulance Service
NHS Trust
Ffordd Richard Davies
Parc Busnes Llanelwy/ St Asaph Business Park
LLanelwy/ St.Asaph
Sir Ddinbych / Denbighshire
LL17 0LJ
Ffon/Tel: 01745 532948 (Mewnol/Internal - 43948)
WHTN - 17143948
Ebost/Email: [1][email address]
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