Status:

COMPLETED

Community First Responders' Role in the Current and Future Rural Health and Care Workforce

Lead Sponsor:

University of Lincoln

Conditions:

Emergency Medical Services

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

Community First Responders (CFRs) are trained members of the public, lay people or off-duty healthcare staff who volunteer to provide first aid. CFRs help ambulance services to provide care for people...

Detailed Description

The project will involve the following steps: 1. Analyse records from six ambulance services to see: how many people CFRs attended; the proportion of ambulance calls attended; age, sex and conditions...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Adults capable of giving informed consent. The investigators will recruit a maximum variation sample of patients (according to age, sex, condition, and ethnicity), ambulance staff (sex, experience, ethnicity and role), CFR (sex, ethnicity, length of experience, skill level) and CFR scheme leads (independent charity and ambulance trust overseen schemes).

Exclusion

  • The investigators will exclude children and adults who are unable to give informed consent from this study.
  • London Ambulance Service NHS Trust is not included as it is mainly urban; East of England Ambulance Service and North East Ambulance Service are not included because of lack of electronic data.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

June 1 2020

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

December 3 2022

Estimated Enrollment :

83995 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04279262

Start Date

June 1 2020

End Date

December 3 2022

Last Update

December 16 2024

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Community and Health Research Unit, University of Lincoln

Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, LN5 7AY