Phil has always worked in pre-hospital / community care environments. From Mountain / river rescue through to being an Army Medical reservist. Ambulance First Responder scheme development and membership since 2007. He is a Founding Fellow in the Faculty of Emergency Nursing RCN.
Phil has been a Resuscitation Council UK Instructor for Adults and Paeds life support courses since 1996 and is currently undertaking a doctoral thesis on Public Access Defibrillator access in Wales.
Having just finished a secondment with Save a Life Cymru (NHS Wales), Phil’s current clinical roles include community based rapid response as independent prescribing/nursing interventions with a focus of acute admission prevention.
He has a special interest in National Early Warning Scores in Community settings. Phil is also a clinical Advisor to Jacks Appeal defibrillator charity in memory of a local 15 year old who died of sudden out of hospital cardiac arrest in 2012.