Redesigning paramedic models of care to meet rural and remote community needs
Redesigning paramedic models of care to meet rural and remote community needs Conference Paper
10th National Rural Health Conference: Rural Health: the place to be...
- Author(s): Natalie Blacker, Lynette Pearson, Tony Walker
- Published: 2009
Abstract: The Council of Ambulance Authorities (CAA) is the peak body representing the principal statutory providers of ambulance services in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. The CAA is developing a body of knowledge through research, exchange of information, monitoring and reporting. Australasian ambulance services are focusing on achieving best practice pre-hospital and out of hospital care through both evidence based research and expert consensus in order to provide communities and patients with better health outcomes. Expanding roles and the clinical, educational, and business requirements surrounding this development is an area of common interest across ambulance services to provide communities with better access to a wider range of health care options. This research was conducted to inform CAA member ambulance services in monitoring the development of expanding paramedic roles and to assist services in the development of their own models. The documented outcomes of these initiatives can also assist services in gaining government funding to implement these roles for the first time, in a greater number of locations or to formalise practices that are already occurring. The research will also be shared with international organisations linked with the CAA, such as the International Round table on Community Paramedicine and the Emergency Medical Services Chiefs of Canada.
- Urls: http://www.ruralhealth.org.au/10thNRHC/10thnrhc.ruralhealth.org.au/papers/docs/Blacker_Natalie_D4.pdf
- Publisher Location: Cairns