Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee
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JRCALC is the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee.JRCALC http://jrcalc.org.uk/ Their role is to provide robust clinical speciality advice to ambulance services within the UK and it publishes regularly updated clinical guidelines{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}. The first meeting of JRCALC was in 1989 and was hosted by the Royal College of Physicians, London.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}
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.{{cite web|publisher=College of Paramedics|title=Updated position paper following JRCALC recommendations on paramedic intubation|url=http://jrcalc.org.uk/intubation_paper_v4.pdf|date=2008-09-22|access-date=3 August 2011|archive-date=24 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724191837/http://jrcalc.org.uk/intubation_paper_v4.pdf|url-status=dead}}
JRCALC have produced a number of systematic reviews on various topics.http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/hsri/emergencycare/prehospitalcare/jrcalcstakeholderwebsite/airwaymanagement/endotrachealintubationbyparamedics 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|date=June 2009}} The Guidelines are produced by the JRCALC Guideline Development Group (JRCALC-GDG) hosted by the University of Warwick.http://jrcalc.org.uk/
Executive committee
- Chairman - Dr Wim Blancke{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}
- Joint honorary secretaries - Dr Fiona Jewkes & Mr M O'Flaherty{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}
- Honorary treasurer - Dr Fionna Moore{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}
- Committee administrator - Carole Long{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}
Guideline Development Group members
- Dr Simon Brown - Chairman{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}
- Professor Matthew Cooke - Project Director{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}
- Dr Joanne Fisher - Senior Research Fellow{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}
- Stephen Hines - Paramedic Project Advisor{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}
- Prof Mike Smyth - Paramedic Project Advisor{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}
The guideline development group relies upon the unpaid work of numerous clinicians to complete the systematic reviews to support the guidelines.{{Cite web|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/research/hsri/emergencycare/prehospitalcare/jrcalcstakeholderwebsite/competing_conflict_interest/|title = Membership and declarations of interest}}
Guidelines
- Version 1 - 2000JRCALC Guidelines History http://jrcalc.org.uk/guidelines_history.html
- Version 2 - 2004{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}
- Version 3 - April 2006{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}
- Version 4 - April 2013 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510000112/http://aace.org.uk/the-clinical-practice-guidelines-2013-are-on-their-way/ AACE]
References
External links
- {{Official website}}
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