The project’s aims include:-

• Establishment of structures to train, equip, monitor and integrate general practitioners into delivery of agreed aspects of pre-hospital emergency care

• Exploration of the establishment of liaison structures between general practitioners, Ambulance Services and GP co-operatives in these regions.

• To facilitate the provision of 150 additional defibrillators for use by general practitioners within their current practice settings.

• To explore the development of functional links between the PHECC, the healthcare professions and pre-hospital emergency care delivery.

• To explore the potential for establishment of a PHECC NQEMT (healthcare professionals) register.

• To develop a model for national roll-out of integrated pre-hospital emergency care structures, based on experience in the three pilot regions.

• To establish systems in the three areas aimed at the provision of specific forms of advanced care by small groups of trained and well supported doctors, working in close co-operation with the Ambulance Services.

Project Management
Egan, Ms Mairead (Projects Manager, Centre for Immediate Care Services), University College Dublin

Steering Committee Members
Bury, Professor Gerard (Chair, Project Director, UCD)
Daly, Mr Pat (Chief Ambulance Officer, HSE-MW)
Dowling, Dr John (General Practitioner, NWHB)
King, Mr Geoff (Director, Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council)
McCreanor, Mr Pat (Chief Ambulance Officer, HSE-EC)
Wright, Mr Peter (Director of Public Health, HSE-NW)

Project Manager: Ms Mairéad Egan |Tel 01 716 6640| Fax 01 716 6549 | e-mail: mairead.egan@ucd.ie
Supported by the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council and the Department of Health & Children