Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee

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Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee

Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee
JRCALC
Founded	1989
Location	United Kingdom
Website	[1]

JRCALC is the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee.^[1] Their role is to provide robust clinical speciality advice to ambulance services within the UK and it publishes regularly updated clinical guidelines^{[citation needed]}. The first meeting of JRCALC was in 1989 and was hosted by the Royal College of Physicians, London.^{[citation needed]}

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 in the past.^[2]

JRCALC have produced a number of systematic reviews on various topics.^[3] 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.^{[citation needed]} The Guidelines are produced by the JRCALC Guideline Development Group (JRCALC-GDG) hosted by the University of Warwick.^[4]

Executive committee[]

• Chairman - Dr Wim Blancke^{[citation needed]}
• Joint honorary secretaries - Dr Fiona Jewkes & Mr M O'Flaherty
• Honorary treasurer - Dr Fionna Moore
• Committee administrator - Ms Carole Long

Members[]

Ambulance Service Association^{[citation needed]}

• 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^{[citation needed]}

• Ms Rachel Ryan

College of Paramedics^{[citation needed]}

• Mr Roland Furber
• Professor Andy Newton

British Association for Immediate Care^{[citation needed]}

• Dr David Zideman

Directors of Clinical Care (DOCCs)^{[citation needed]}

• Dr John Stephenson

College of Emergency Medicine^{[citation needed]}

• Mr Darren Walter
• Dr Henry Guly
• Dr Fionna Moore
• Dr Alison Walker

Health Professions Council

• Mr Mark Woolcock

Resuscitation Council

• Dr Mick Colquhoun

Royal College of Anaesthetists

• Dr Wim Blancke
• Professor Charles Deakin
• Dr Michael Ward

Royal College of General Practitioners

• Dr Iain McNeil
• Dr Simon Stockley
• Dr Simon Brown

Royal College of Midwives

• Mrs Claudette Reid

Royal College of Nursing

• Mr Mike Hayward
• Mrs Fizz Thompson
• Professor Tom Quinn

• Dr Helen Simpson

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health

• Dr Quen Mok
• Dr Julian Sandell

Royal College of Physicians

• Dr Helen Booth
• Dr Tom Evans
• Dr Liam Penny
• Dr Howard Swanton
• Dr David Smith

Royal College of Psychiatrists

• 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

The guideline development group relies upon the unpaid work of numerous clinicians to complete the systematic reviews to support the guidelines.^[5]

Guidelines[]

• Version 1 - 2000^[6]
• Version 2 - 2004^{[citation needed]}
• Version 3 - April 2006^{[citation needed]}
• Version 4 - April 2013 AACE http://aaceguidelines.co.uk/

References[]

External links[]

• jrcalc