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Career Insight

The Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care (FPHC) Student and Trainee Group (STG) aims to develop and extend opportunities in training and education for careers in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM). The FPHC STG recognises the challenges of pursing a career in Pre-Hospital Care. 

The Career Insight programme has been designed to create a resource, which provides an insight into the different career pathways of Pre-Hospital Care clinicians. The FPHC STG committee conducted the career interviews over a period of 12 months, in total 18 clinicians were interviewed. Interviews were audio recorded and then transcribed by members of the FPHC Student and Trainee Group committee. The transcription was then sent to the interviewee for review and approval. Following this, the FPHC STG Chaircarried out final editing. 

The Career Insight programme demonstrates the diversity of the Pre-Hospital Care workforce and highlights the spectrum of the multi-disciplinary team. We would like to say thank you to everyone who gave up their time to be interviewed.  

Career Insight Interviews: 

Name:Ash Mullinder 

Role:Critical Care Paramedic, West Midlands Ambulance Service MERIT 

Name:Dr Charlotte Knowles  

Role:Emergency Medicine ST5 and current Paediatric Retrieval Doctor 

 

Name: Ellie Monsell 

Role:Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Nurse 

West Midlands CARE Team 

 

Name: Dr Emma Butterfield  

Role:Intensive Care Trainee and HEMS Doctor with East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA)  

 

Name: David O'Toole  

Role: Specialist HEMS Paramedic, London’s Air Ambulance 

 

Name: Dr Jenny Scallan  

Role:Emergency Medicine ST5, Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine [PHEM] Trainee, West Midlands 

 

Name: Dr Jim Flatt 

Role: Emergency Medicine Consultant and PHEM Doctor, East Anglian Air Ambulance 

 

Name: Jonathan Bush  

Role:Advanced Paramedic in Critical Care, YAS BASICS Paramedic, Operations Directorate, Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 

 

Name: Lauren Deanus  

Role:Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) currently working in Pre-Hospital Care 

 

Name: Dr Lesley Blake  

Role:Emergency Medicine Trainee, ST6 and PHEM Fellow, East Anglian Air Ambulance [EAAA] 

 

Name: Dr Matt Newport 

Role:Consultant in Anaesthetics & Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine, North West  

 

Name: Mr Michael Hughes  

Role:Consultant Emergency General and Resuscitative Trauma Surgeon, Leeds teaching hospitals, Consultant in Pre-Hospital Care, Yorkshire air ambulance, HEMS Doctor, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire air ambulance  

 

Name: Oliver Bamford  

Role:HEMS Paramedic, London’s Air Ambulance  

 

Name: Dr Rachel Edwards  

Role:Emergency Medicine Registrar, Pre-Hospital Doctor, West Midlands 

 

Name: Dr Richard Brook  

Role:Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, HEMS Doctor, Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance and MERIT Doctor, Yorkshire Ambulance Service 

 

Name: Dr Rob Major  

Role:Emergency Medicine Consultant and HEMS Doctor with East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA)  

 

Name: Steven Short  

Role:Programme Lead for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest for The Scottish Ambulance Service 

 

Name: Dr Zoe Smeed  

Role:Emergency Medicine, Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine and Retrieval Consultant, Scotland 

Thank you to the following FPHC STG committee members, who conducted interviews: 

  • Aaliya Ashar  

  • Elizabeth Gay  

  • Francesca Harper  

  • Kuldeep Matharu 

  • Molly Clough  

  • Oliver Arscott  

  • Reuben Alexander  

  • Sonal Patel  

  • Sophie Goddard-Hunt  

  • Sophie Macdonald  

  • Sophie Riley 

  • Tim Harvey  

 

Upcoming System Maintenance & Network Disruption

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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