JRCALC
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JRCALC is the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee. Their role is to provide robust clinical speciality advice to ambulance services within the UK and it publishes regularly updated clinical guidelines. The first meeting of JRCALC was in 1989 and was hosted by the Royal College of Physicians, London.
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. 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. The Guidelines are produced by the JRCALC Guideline Development Group (JRCALC-GDG) hosted by the University of Warwick.
British National Formulary
College of Paramedics
British Association for Immediate Care
Directors of Clinical Care (DOCCs)
College of Emergency Medicine
Health Professions Council
Resuscitation Council
Royal College of Anaesthetists
Royal College of General Practitioners
Royal College of Midwives
Royal College of Nursing
Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Royal College of Physicians
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Staff Side Ambulance Council
The fourth version of the guidelines was published in April 2006 and is available online.
They also produce a pocket book, which provides an easy source of reference for all paramedic drugs, ALS and BLS procedures and various other flowcharts.
The guidelines are supposed to be produced from evidence based medicine, however organisations such as the College of Paramedics
College of Paramedics
The College of Paramedics, formerly the British Paramedic Association, is the United Kingdom professional representative body for paramedics in the United Kingdom. The college has representation with the Health Professions Council , the Department of Health, the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance...
have criticised the committee for poor reference to available evidence. 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. The Guidelines are produced by the JRCALC Guideline Development Group (JRCALC-GDG) hosted by the University of Warwick.
Executive committee
- Chairman - Dr Wim Blancke
- 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
British National Formulary
British National Formulary
The British National Formulary is a medical and pharmaceutical reference book that contains a wide spectrum of information and advice on prescribing and pharmacology, along with specific facts and details about all medicines available on the National Health Service , including indication,...
- Ms Rachel Ryan
College of Paramedics
College of Paramedics
The College of Paramedics, formerly the British Paramedic Association, is the United Kingdom professional representative body for paramedics in the United Kingdom. The college has representation with the Health Professions Council , the Department of Health, the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance...
- Mr Roland Furber
- Mr Andy Newton
British Association for Immediate Care
British Association for Immediate Care
The British Association for Immediate Care is a registered charity which aims to encourage and aid the formation and extension of Immediate Care Schemes and strengthen and develop co-operation between schemes providing Immediate Care and the statutory emergency services...
- Dr David Zideman
Directors of Clinical Care (DOCCs)
- Dr John Stephenson
College of Emergency Medicine
College of Emergency Medicine
The College of Emergency Medicine is an organization of emergency physicians in the United Kingdom which sets standards of training and administers examinations for emergency physicians in the United Kingdom and Ireland.-Entrance criteria:...
- Mr Darren Walter
- Dr Henry Guly
- Dr Fionna Moore
- Dr Alison Walker
Health Professions Council
Health Professions Council
The Health Professions Council is a statutory regulator of 210,000 health professionals from 15 professions in the United Kingdom. It was set up in 2003 under the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002, to replace the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine ....
- Mr Mark Woolcock
Resuscitation Council
- Dr Mick Colquhoun
Royal College of Anaesthetists
Royal College of Anaesthetists
The Royal College of Anaesthetists is "the professional body responsible for the specialty of anaesthesia throughout the United Kingdom". It sets standards in anaesthesia, critical care, pain management, and for the training of anaesthetists, physician assistants - and practising critical care...
- Dr Wim Blancke
- Professor Charles Deakin
- Dr Michael Ward
Royal College of General Practitioners
Royal College of General Practitioners
The Royal College of General Practitioners is the professional body for general practitioners in the United Kingdom. The RCGP represents and supports GPs on key issues including licensing, education, training, research and clinical standards. It is the largest of the medical royal colleges, with...
- Dr Iain McNeil
- Dr Simon Stockley
- Dr Simon Brown
Royal College of Midwives
Royal College of Midwives
The Royal College of Midwives is a British midwives organisation which has existed under its present name since 1947.-History:The Matrons' Aid Society, renamed the Midwives' Institute in 1881, was founded by Louisa Hubbard and Zepharina Veitch to raise the training and status of midwives...
- Mrs Claudette Reid
Royal College of Nursing
Royal College of Nursing
The Royal College of Nursing is a union membership organisation with over 395,000 members in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1916, receiving its Royal Charter in 1928, Queen Elizabeth II is the patron...
- Mr Mike Hayward
- Mrs Fizz Thompson
- Professor Tom Quinn
Royal College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- Dr Helen Simpson
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in London is responsible for the training of postgraduate doctors in paediatrics and conducting the MRCPCH membership exams. They also conduct the Diploma in Child Health exam, which is taken by many doctors who plan a career in General Practice...
- Dr Quen Mok
- Dr Julian Sandell
Royal College of Physicians
Royal College of Physicians
The Royal College of Physicians of London was founded in 1518 as the College of Physicians by royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518 - the first medical institution in England to receive a royal charter...
- Dr Helen Booth
- Dr Tom Evans
- Dr Liam Penny
- Dr Howard Swanton
- Dr David Smith
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Royal College of Psychiatrists
The Royal College of Psychiatrists is the main professional organisation of psychiatrists in the United Kingdom responsible for representing psychiatrists, psychiatric research and providing public information about mental health problems...
- 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
Guidelines
- Version 1 - 2000
- Version 2 - 2002
- Version 2.1
The fourth version of the guidelines was published in April 2006 and is available online.
They also produce a pocket book, which provides an easy source of reference for all paramedic drugs, ALS and BLS procedures and various other flowcharts.