Pre-Hospital Care
Our pre-hospital care research focuses on all aspects of the out-of-hospital environment, particularly the care provided by ambulance service clinicians. Areas of research are varied and range from airway management in cardiac arrest, temperature management where babies are born outside of hospital and safely reducing hospital admissions to support the delivery of emergency care closer to home. Our research encompasses the complex health needs of an ageing population as well additional areas of research focused on improving the triage of emergency calls and health promotion in the out-of-hospital setting.
Title, dates, funder, and amount of funding
ParAid: Paramedic delivery of end-of-life care: a mixed methods evaluation of service provision and professional practice
March 2023 – February 2024
Marie Curie
£150,000
PRESSURE 2022: PRimary and community carE Staff as SURvivors of domestic violence and abusE
May 2022 – April 2023
NIHR School for Primary Care Research
£145,256
PARSE 999: Policy Frameworks for 999 Response.
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Policy Support Fund, Warwick University
£45,000
Birth before arrival (BBA) at hospital in the South West: an exploration of inequalities and call-taker advice.
March 2022 – March 2023
South West Academic Health Science Network
£27,969
Natural Language Processing to triage chest pain patients more accurately with a particular focus on identifying chest pain patients who are at imminent risk of OHCA.
Sep 2022 – July 2023
NHS HEE/NIHR
£24,961
Artistry and Emergencies: The relationship between creative arts and emergency skills education.
May – December 2023
Brigstow Institute
£10,700
Temperature management of babies born before arrival at hospital in the South West: Driving the implementation of recommended changes to call handler advice.
March 2023 – June 2023
South West Academic Health Science Network
£5,000
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PhD projects
- Paramedic assessment and management of children with minor head injury: INSPIRE. Funded by NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (2022 – 2026)
- Paramedic assessment of pain in people living with dementia who are attended by an emergency ambulance: PiPPiN. Funded by UWE Bristol (2024 – 2027)
- Optimising prehospital critical care dispatch: An investigation of the opportunities and challenges in critical care resource allocation. Co-funded by Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance and UWE Bristol (2024 – 2027)