Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee

JRCALC is the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee.^[1] Their role is to provide robust clinical speciality advice to ambulance services within the UK and it publishes regularly updated clinical guidelines^{[citation needed]}. The first meeting of JRCALC was in 1989 and was hosted by the Royal College of Physicians, London.^{[citation needed]}

Operations

The guidelines are supposed to be produced from evidence-based medicine. However, organisations such as the College of Paramedics have criticised the committee for poor reference to available evidence in the past.^[2]

JRCALC have produced a number of systematic reviews on various topics.^[3] Available evidence is researched and discussed by a team of academics and clinicians including representatives from all UK ambulance services, and a number of medical disciplines.^{[citation needed]} The Guidelines are produced by the JRCALC Guideline Development Group (JRCALC-GDG) hosted by the University of Warwick.^[4]

Executive committee

• Chairman - Dr Wim Blancke^{[citation needed]}
• Joint honorary secretaries - Dr Fiona Jewkes & Mr M O'Flaherty^{[citation needed]}
• Honorary treasurer - Dr Fionna Moore^{[citation needed]}
• Committee administrator - Carole Long^{[citation needed]}

Guideline Development Group members

• Dr Simon Brown - Chairman^{[citation needed]}
• Professor Matthew Cooke - Project Director^{[citation needed]}
• Dr Joanne Fisher - Senior Research Fellow^{[citation needed]}
• Stephen Hines - Paramedic Project Advisor^{[citation needed]}
• Prof Mike Smyth - Paramedic Project Advisor^{[citation needed]}

The guideline development group relies upon the unpaid work of numerous clinicians to complete the systematic reviews to support the guidelines.^[5]

Guidelines

• Version 1 - 2000^[6]
• Version 2 - 2004^{[citation needed]}
• Version 3 - April 2006^{[citation needed]}
• Version 4 - April 2013 ^[7]

References

External links

• Official website