Guidelines

The Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee Guideline Development Group (JRCALC-GDG), chaired by Dr Simon Brown, develops and reviews national clinical practice guidelines for NHS paramedics although the principles are applicable to all prehospital clinicians.
 
The guidelines have evolved from locally-derived guidance (mainly developed using non-systematic approaches) to systematically-developed national clinical practice guidelines developed to universally agreed standards based on current best evidence. They are an important part of clinical risk management and ensure uniformity in the delivery of high quality patient care. As such they form the basis for UK paramedic training and education and are internationally renowned. The guidelines are reviewed on a five year cycle and are developed or updated, based on systematic reviews of the evidence and consensus agreement.

The GDG comprise over 100 members and represent all ambulance services in the UK; members also include representatives from the Royal Colleges, speciality experts, and stakeholders.

Access to the JRCALC clinical practice guidelines and other useful guideline related information is available from the links below.

Guideline related links:

• Access to the current 2006 clinical practice guidelines with links to evidence where available
• Ambulance service history
• Clinical updates including new and revised guidelines
• Clarifications
• Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
• JRCALC guideline pages
• JRCALC guideline notices
• Lay and scientific summaries of the guideline process
• Nomination for membership of the guideline development group
• Online question and answer forum providing a direct link with the GDG
• Research presentations
• Stakeholder consultations
• Stakeholder contents page