Pre-hospital emergency medicine (PHEM) feedback - "Learning from patients, for patients"

Summary

Information for the Public pre-hospital emergency medicine (PHEM) feedback is a collaboration between the Princess Alexandra Hospital and the services who bring patients to them (ambulances and air ambulance teams) and provide pre-hospital care to those patients.

Content

Did you known that once a paramedic hands over the care of their patient to the hospital they don't tend to learn how beneficial their treatments were or how accurate their diagnosis was? As you can imagine this makes continually improving in order to provide the best possible healthcare to patients very challenging.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH), East of England Ambulance Service Trust (EEAST), and Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust (EHAAT) are working together to change that. With support from the Health Research Authority's Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG) and under the supervision of the PAH Patient Panel, they have started a new project which allows the ambulance and air ambulance staff who look after a patient to find out relevant and proportional information. This will help with lifelong learning and reflection, seen as vital to learning by both the General Medical Council who oversee doctors and the Health and Care Professions Council who oversee ambulance staff.