• Insights from Macmillan's Paramedic End-of-Life Lead

  • Jul 9 2024
  • Length: 36 mins
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Insights from Macmillan's Paramedic End-of-Life Lead

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  • We are joined by Ed O’Brian in the Welsh Ambulance Service who discusses the inspiring innovations that he has developed and introduced to better support patients that access the ambulance service at the end of life. These include introducing just in case medications onto ambulances to help ensure better symptom control, the introduction of an end-of-life care rapid transport service to convey dying patients to their preferred place of death, a wish ambulance service to help dying patients experience a meaningful journey, and the introduction of the UKs first palliative care paramedics.

    Edward O’Brian is a Macmillan paramedic and clinical lead for palliative and end of life care in the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust (WAST).

    Ed has master’s degree in palliative medicine and he co-chairs the National Ambulance End of Life Care Leads Group, working with clinical leads across the UK in the development of guidelines specific to ambulance led end of life care. His publication is here(PDF) Impact of paramedics carrying just-in-case end-of-life care medication (researchgate.net)
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