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Hi i'm a new member on the forum and am really keen to find a HPC approved paramedic training course do you have any further info?
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Mike
 
No it is not affiliated with AREMT it is accredited by the HPC directly and is run in association with a UK University who we are partnering with to offer the course privately.
 
The current course 'belongs' to the University but at least it is directly HPC accredited. We make little to no money from the course except operating costs which are barely even covered.

I am currently applying for standalone accreditation for the course through the AQA. We have applied to become an awarding body to offer level 5 and 6 qualifications and when we are successful, the qualification will be ours rather than the University's.

Meeting with the NHS pending to get our ambulances out on the road. Could those who have PM'd me please send me their email addresses and course info will be sent in due course.
 
If you're stepping out in that direction UKP, you'll no doubt have to contend with the CQC as well.

Good luck with that one bro.
 
I thought the CQC where only registering the actual service, LAS have caused the introduction plastic pinnys and "arm condoms" in the pursuit of improved hygiene, as part of registration, with private companies being registered from April next year. Oh hang on a 'mo, do you mean in relation to his ambo company? I might have got the wrong end of the stick, if you are working under contract to an Ambulance Trust you are correct in that you will have to come up to that Trusts level of compliance with CQC, but at least that is a head start for the companies registration for next year. There isn't as much money in private companies doing the 999 work as might be first thought, not if it is done correctly that is, most shifts on cars and trucks for private providers that I have done outside London, I have had to bring my own response kit and FR2.
 
Yep, that was the point I was making. If they're setting up a service, as an offshoot of the trg coy, then they'll have to tackle the CQC nonsense.

The CQC is also responsible for the registration of individuals. However, it seems that the only individuals that will be lawfully required to register are SRPs in private practice. So if a person was a dodgy muppit 4 day EMT punting around the circuit for work, he/she's relatively safe because they're outside of the system. However, if you're a SR Para, with all of the insurance, kit, meds etc and offering a legitimate and lawfull service, then they've got you by the short and curlies. In the current climate, I for one will not be able to afford the registration process.

Anyway bro, don't want to divert the thread, but my advice to UKP, is to make absolutely sure you're not opening up a real can of whoop arrse for yourself.
 
Currently going through the process for my wifes company, a Domicliary Care Agency for old folks, the amount of crap they want is pathetic, including the need to have an office to spec all paid up and furnished, all at least 4 months before you are registered and therefore with no income, just burning money. This might have been acceptable in the days before the creditcrunch with loans and overdrafts available, but to throw away £800 a month for month after month is bollocks, new labour government quangoness at it's best.
 
The CQC are a joke and admitted in an email to me that they have no idea how to regulate private ambulance services. The irony is that they will only be regulating patient transport and paramedics. They will not regulate the "EMTs" and cowboys, they will only regulate people who are currently being regulated which is a ****ing joke. Their reply to me was very rude and indicated that they do not have a clue!

Event work is exempt so knob heads can still buy a secondhand ambulance and pretend to be a paramedic with nothing more than a first aid certificate but I as a registered and already heavily regulated paramedic have to register my company at great expense and jump through their unreasonable hoops in order to practice my profession. Pathetic bunch of money wasting QUANGO idiots.
 
I've spoken with the CQC again this morning and expressed my concerns.

They have said that the rules are not yet set in stone, and they are still unsure about how to proceed. Basically, they haven't got a fookin clue.

I have pointed out the concerns that You, Me and many other Paramedics have. I have also highlighted the fact that Docs, Nurses and Midwives in private practice are exempt, but Paramedics in private practice are being required to register. They verbally accept that there is a case for Paramedics in private practice to be given the same exemption.

They have invited me to raise these issues formally, and I intend to do so. May I suggest that everybody else concerned does so as well.

Please write to:

enquiries@cqc.org.uk and mark your text - FAO: regisistration 2010/11

Like you, I'm outraged that yet again, I'm having to jump through no end of very expensive hoops, when the dick'eds working unlawfully, are left to opperate unchallenged by the authorities.
 
Remember that you will have to equip your vehicles to CQC specs this year if you are contracted to an Ambulance Trust, so the Trust will more than likely inspect your vehicles with a CQC orientated shett of tickboxes, along the lines of, LP12-who cares, FR2-whocares, Ferno hydraulic trolleybed-whatever, hang about where are your swineflu masks, plastic pinneys and arm condoms, this vehicle is substandard, blah, blah. Like always they don't know what should be on an Ambulance but are fixated with problems affecting Hospitals like aquired infections, when an Ambulance isn't meant to be sterile, as there is very little nedd in practice for a sterile Ambulance as all our dressings are mainly to reduce blood loss, rather than provide longterm wound care, sadly a Quango can only work within its range of tickboxes, and how many staff do they employ that know anything about Ambulance work,have you seen the new way to cannulate, christ it takes about 10 minutes, they want you to be touching the patient without gloves up until the point of cannulation, then you must wash you hands and put on gloves, I take it they have tried to put on gloves with even remotely wet hands, and of course patients are all lovely and clean, sod that, my gloves go on as I enter the house as has been SoP for years, I always changed gloves when they where soiled, plus where I am I supposed to write the patients obs and name etc.......
 
We are already inspected which has been going on for a long time now. The good news is that once inspected by one trust, there is no need to be inspected by other trusts, your details are held on a database as being 'inspected' or 'accredited' is another word some trusts use.

Some trusts will still inspect as there have been cases of companies beefing up the vehicles and kit for the inspection and then letting standards slide.

We had to produce the entire service records for an FR2 for example dating back to the time of manufacture. Impossible when we have only owned it for 6 months and irrelevant if the device is serviced and working now, who cares what happened to it two years ago?
 
I have been doing Urgent work for a company on my rest days, they have some problems with equipment, mainly down to the main boss being a tight bastard, and that has now been sorted, I used to use my own FR2 as din't fancy doing a suspended with an unfamiliar defib. I and a few mates at work had thought about trying to get some of this Urgent work for ourselves, we are sadly saddled with London sized mortgages we aren't in a financial postion to do it quickly. If you need help with shifts then give me a PM, as there are always bods at work looking for extra work away from London. My company is a bit unusual in that it is a nonprofit, setup to provide some form of an Ambulance servie in Ghana, and hopefully later on a small clinic, it's a pity set up costs are so large. One other thing with FR2s you can check how much usage they have had and can do a full pre-shift check by slipping the battery out for a second, I got mine secondhand and it was on a Hospital crash cart, and has only given 3 or 4 shocks in it's life.
 
UK Approved para course

ukparamedic said:
HPC Approved Paramedic course is now available, first intake will be later this year. PM me for more details.
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UKPM, I pm'd on the 15th for the above details, but have had nothing back... Is the post still relevant? Still interested and looking at all options...

Cheers
 
Yes I found out yesterday...

Very sad as he seemed like a very experienced and knowledgeable person.

RIP Ukparamedic
 
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