The Daily Post
CARDIFF, Wales — A ground-breaking scheme by the Welsh Ambulance Service to put a new breed of super-paramedics on the roads has been nominated for a major national award.
In a UK first it has seen a network of highly-trained and equipped practitioners distributed across Wales, not just responding to emergencies but also making decisions about aftercare.
It has been nominated in the Innovations category of the Ambulance Services Institute awards One of the first appointments in North Wales was Graham Williams, from Cilcain, near Mold.
He said: “The idea of the specialist practitioner is that you are clinically more focused and able to do an assessment of the patient and then come to a conclusion about whether he or she needs to go to hospital. If they can be treated at home then that’s better for everybody.”
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