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National Conference 2023 Full Programme

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	'Tackling the Future Together' TUESDAY 23RD MAY
08.30 - 09.15	Registration
09.15 - 09.30	Welcome Address Tracy Nicholls FCPara, Chief Executive, College of Paramedics
09.30 - 10.00	Mark Bloch Lecture: The Deteriorating Patient Inside the Hospital - Challenges of a Consultant Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) Rebecca Connolly, Consultant ACP Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
	Main Room	Break-out Room
10.05-10.30	International Recruitment: Transition Experience into the London Ambulance Service as an International Paramedic from Nigeria Henry Chinonso Agbor, Paramedic, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust	The Impact of ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) on the Emergency Services Daly Jones, Detective Constable, Metropolitan Police and Carl Mumford Police Constable - Learning and Development, Metropolitan Police Service
10.35 - 11.00	Hatzola - The Volunteer Ambulance Service Tom Goodwin, Advanced Paramedic - Clinical Lead, Hatzola Manchester & North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust	Conversation analysis of Emergency Medical Service calls where a patient suffers an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest after the emergency call connection Kim Kirby, Senior Research Fellow Paramedic Science, University of the West of England
11.00 - 11.45	Morning Break and Networking
11.45 - 12.30	College of Paramedics AGM
12.30 - 13.00	Tackling the Future Together Tracy Nicholls, Chief Executive, College of Paramedics John Martin, President, College of Paramedics Rory O'Connor, Chair, College of Paramedics

13.00 - 14.00	Lunch and Networking
14.00 - 14.30	Contemporary Paramedicine: Meeting Tomorrow's Needs Kirsty Lowery-Richardson, Head of Education, College of Paramedics
14.35-15.50	Golden Nuggets The Golden Nugget presentations have been decided! Details announced shortly.	14.35-14.50	A Paramedic Pledge Lawrence Hill, Associate Professor, UEA and Georgette Eaton NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
14.40-14.52	A Retrospective Cohort Study of Pre-Hospital Agitation Management by Advanced Paramedic Practitioners in Critical Care Nick Brown
14.54-15.06	Critical Care Paramedics Experiences of Performing an Emergency Scalpel Cricothyroidotomy: a Qualitative Study Mark Durham	14.55-15.10		What feedback do prehospital clinicians currently receive and what do they actually want? Caitlin Wilson, PhD Student & Senior Research Fellow (Paramedic) University of Leeds/Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust
15.08-15.20	For When You Just Can't Talk to 'Normal' People...Exploring the Use of Informal Support Structures by Supernumerary University Paramedic Students: Findings From a Phenomenological Study Mark Garratt
15.22-15.34	The Impact of COVID-19 On Emergency Medical Service-Led Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation: a Qualitative Study Kim Kirby	15.15 - 15.30		Atrial fibrillation identification by emergency medical services: an opportunity to prevent strokes? Dr Chris Wilkinson, Senior lecturer in Cardiology, Consultant Cardiologist, Hull York Medical School and James Cook University Hospital
15.36-15.48	The Effect of a Specialist Paramedic Primary Care Rotation on Appropriate Non-Conveyance Decisions (SPRAINED) Study: a Controlled Interrupted Time Series Analysis Richard Pilbery	15.35-15.50		Public suggestions to improve engagement in, and uptake of, bystander CPR training and public access defibrillator use in North England Laura Blair, Paramedic, North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

15.50-16.20	Afternoon Break and Networking
16.20-16.55	Fire and Rescue Service - International Rescue Deployments Mark Hardingham, Chair, National Fire Chiefs Council
16.55-17.00	Closing comments

	'Tackling the Future Together' WEDNESDAY 24TH MAY
08.30-08.55	Registration
08.55-09.00	Welcome
09.00-09.30	The What, Why and How of health inequalities in paramedic practice? Sammer Tang, Specialist Registrar in Public Health, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust/Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
09.30-10.00	The Role of the NACC Adam Black, Staff Officer, National Ambulance Co-ordination Centre (NACC)
	Main Room	Breakout Room
10.05-10.30	On An Ambulance Near You - New Medicines Update 2023 David Rovardi, Medicines Specialist Advisor, College Of Paramedics, Specialist Practitioner, EMAS	Organising a Medevac and Training Programme in Ukraine Iain Campbell, Training Leader, Cadus
10.30 - 11.00	Morning Break and Networking
	Main Room	Breakout Room
11.00-11.25	The popularity of Paramedics John Martin, President of the College of Paramedics, Chief Paramedic at London Ambulance Service	Paramedics, prescribing and the law Cathal Gallagher, Reader in Healthcare Ethics and Law, University of Hertfordshire
11.25-13.00	Current challenges in the ambulance service – a four nations perspective 11.30-11.45 - Dave Bywater, Lead Consultant Paramedic, Scotland 11.45-12.00 - Rosie Byrne, Director of Operations, Northern Ireland Ambulance Service 12.10-12.25 - Andy Swinburn, Director of Paramedicine, Wales 12.25-12.40 - John Martin, Chief Paramedic and Quality Officer / Deputy Chief Executive for the London Ambulance Service, England 12.40-13.00 - Panel Discussions
13.00-14.00	Lunch and Networking
14.00-14.25	The future of patient safety investigation: Learning, improvement and culture Jaqui Lindridge, Director of Quality, London Ambulance Service and April Wrangles, Head of Quality Improvement and Learning, London Ambulance Service	Reducing ambulance on-scene times for suspected stroke through an evidence-based training package: an interim analysis Graham McClelland, Paramedic Research Fellow, North East Ambulance Service
14.30-14.55	All Things HCPC: Regulation Update 2023 Andrea James, Partner, Keystone Law	A Comparison of Pelvic Fracture Binding Methods on a Cadaver Model Kevin T Collopy, Clinical Outcomes & Compliance Manager, Novant Health AirLink/VitaLink
15.00-15.25	The content of this session has been chosen and final details are being finalised. Please watch this space for updates over the next few days.	Emergency Hypnoidal Communication Dr Andy Newton, Consultant, Kevin Walsh, Advanced Paramedic Practitioner, and Vinny Wagjiani, Detective Inspector
15.25-15.55	Afternoon break and Networking
15.55-16.55	Acute Behavioural Disturbance - Live Simulation Session! Richard McGirr, Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Critical Care), East of England Ambulance Service and Junaid Mughal, Advanced Paramedic Practitioner (Critical Care), London Ambulance Service, Founder and Chair of Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Emergency Critical Care Scheme This session will give delegates the knowledge and skills to recognise and manage an ABD situation effectively. Using live actors to demonstrate the situations that paramedics find themselves in, you will learn to recognise the signs and symptoms of ABD and see safer restraint techniques used.
16.55.17.00	Closing remarks

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