Pre-Hospital care is a well-established branch of medicine, now practiced by a broad range of practitioners from first aiders, paramedics, doctors, nurses, first responders, voluntary aid workers and remote medics including multi agency teams such as police, fire and armed forces.
View our range of faculty resources created to aid the professional development of pre-hospital care practitioners, including D13 Audit Reports, guidance documents, courses, etc. Plus our educational programmes DipROM, Mountain Medicine and Crowd Doctor.
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Elevate your skills with the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care Foundation Material in Immediate Care Manual. Tailored specifically to healthcare professionals, this manual provides foundation material and additional references for both training and on-going study. Whether you’re an experienced practitioner or new to the field, the FPHC Manual offers step-by-step instructions and best practices to enhance your expertise and confidence in emergency situations.
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Visit our comprehensive Clinical Response to Major Incidents (CRMI) resource page, designed to equip healthcare professionals with essential information and tools. This page offers guidelines, best practices, and up-to-date protocols to effectively manage and respond to major incidents. Whether you’re looking for training materials, case studies, or the latest research, our CRMI page offers resources to enhance your preparedness and response capabilities.
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Check out our full range of membership options linked to the pre-hospital care framework, and find out about the benefits of being a member. Exciting New Members Benefit - PHEMnet. PHEMnet provides a web based pre-hospital care portfolio and enables FPHC members to input anonymised details of incidents attended, patients treated, drugs delivered and procedures carried out. For more information on this benefit visit the dedicated PHEMnet page under membership benefits.
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The Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care run a range of Exams via the Examinations Department of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. The Faculty have also put together a range of video and podcast resources to help guide candidates through the examinations.
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Are you an experienced and qualified practitioner from a paramedic, nursing or medical background? If so you may be eligible to undertake the new Fellowship in Immediate Care (FIMC) and, as appropriate, apply for Faculty Accreditation as a Consultant (Level 8) Practitioner in PHEM.
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Enjoy a more interactive aspect to the Faculty, Our blogs and Webinars. The aim of the FPHC Website Blog is to allow for an area where members of the Pre-hospital Care community can come together to discuss fresh ideas, research, and experiences within the field and to start discussions among our wide audience of practitioners. Our webinars bring together some of the brightest minds in the pre-hospital care field to discuss new and innovative topics.
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Further to our news back in April, we are extremely proud to announce that the Faculty has been awarded Highly Commended in the prestigious 2025 CIHT Research Award for its innovative entry: IMPACT: The Centre for Post-collision Research, Innovation and Translation – the EXIT Project.
18 April 2025
Exciting News: IMPACT Shortlisted for CIHT Research Award
We are thrilled to share that, through our collaboration with IMPACT, we have been shortlisted for the prestigious CIHT Research Award!
Due to essential systems maintenance and upgrades there will be intermittent interruptions to some on-line services on Saturday 27th of February. There will be further interruption to some core services on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd of March.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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