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
Active Locations (1)
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Community and Health Research Unit, University of Lincoln
Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, LN5 7AY