Clinical feedback to ambulance crews: supporting professional development

Abstract

Ambulance crew involvement in patient care traditionally ends with handover of the patient at the emergency department (ED). We found that ambulance staff often asked informal questions about patients during subsequent visits. We therefore introduced a formal feedback service for ambulance crews in June 2005. This was initially run by a medical student, funded jointly by the trust and the West Midlands Ambulance Service. It is now run by an acute care practitioner. https://emj.bmj.com/content/26/4/309.1. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2007.053868