Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee
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| Full name | Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee |
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| Native name | JRCALC |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Website | [1] |
JRCALC is the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee.[1] Their role is to provide robust clinical speciality advice to ambulance services within the UK and it publishes regularly updated clinical guidelines[citation needed]. The first meeting of JRCALC was in 1989 and was hosted by the Royal College of Physicians, London.[citation needed]
The guidelines are supposed to be produced from evidence-based medicine. However, organisations such as the College of Paramedics have criticised the committee for poor reference to available evidence in the past.[2]
JRCALC have produced a number of systematic reviews on various topics.[3] Available evidence is researched and discussed by a team of academics and clinicians including representatives from all UK ambulance services, and a number of medical disciplines.[citation needed] The Guidelines are produced by the JRCALC Guideline Development Group (JRCALC-GDG) hosted by the University of Warwick.[4]
Contents
Executive committee
- Chairman - Dr Wim Blancke[citation needed]
- Joint honorary secretaries - Dr Fiona Jewkes & Mr M O'Flaherty
- Honorary treasurer - Dr Fionna Moore
- Committee administrator - Ms Carole Long
Members
Ambulance Service Association
- Dr Gillian Bryce
- Professor Michael Langman
- Dr Jeremy Mayhew
- Dr David McManus
- Mr Paul Phillips
- Mr John Nichols
- Mr Phil Pimlott
- Dr John Scott
- Ms Rachel Ryan
- Mr Roland Furber
- Professor Andy Newton
British Association for Immediate Care
- Dr David Zideman
Directors of Clinical Care (DOCCs)
- Dr John Stephenson
- Mr Darren Walter
- Dr Henry Guly
- Dr Fionna Moore
- Dr Alison Walker
- Mr Mark Woolcock
Resuscitation Council
- Dr Mick Colquhoun
Royal College of Anaesthetists
- Dr Wim Blancke
- Professor Charles Deakin
- Dr Michael Ward
Royal College of General Practitioners
- Dr Iain McNeil
- Dr Simon Stockley
- Dr Simon Brown
- Mrs Claudette Reid
- Mr Mike Hayward
- Mrs Fizz Thompson
- Professor Tom Quinn
Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Dr Helen Simpson
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
- Dr Quen Mok
- Dr Julian Sandell
- Dr Helen Booth
- Dr Tom Evans
- Dr Liam Penny
- Dr Howard Swanton
- Dr David Smith
Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Professor Richard Williams
Staff Side Ambulance Council
- Mr Sam Oestreicher
Guideline Development Group Members
- Dr Simon Brown - Chairman
- Professor Matthew Cooke - Project Director
- Dr Joanne Fisher - Senior Research Fellow
- Mr Stephen Hines - Paramedic Project Advisor
- Mr Mike Smyth - Paramedic Project Advisor
The guideline development group relies upon the unpaid work of numerous clinicians to complete the systematic reviews to support the guidelines.[5]
Guidelines
- Version 1 - 2000[6]
- Version 2 - 2004[citation needed]
- Version 3 - April 2006[citation needed]
- Version 4 - April 2013 AACE http://aaceguidelines.co.uk/
References
- ↑ JRCALC http://jrcalc.org.uk/
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- ↑ http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/hsri/emergencycare/prehospitalcare/jrcalcstakeholderwebsite/airwaymanagement/endotrachealintubationbyparamedics
- ↑ http://jrcalc.org.uk/
- ↑ http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/hsri/emergencycare/prehospitalcare/jrcalcstakeholderwebsite/competing_conflict_interest/
- ↑ JRCALC Guidelines History http://jrcalc.org.uk/guidelines_history.html
