Public consultation on PHECC’s Draft 2011 Education and Training Standard

PHECC would like your input into the development of the 2011 Education and Training Standards.


Background

The current Education and Training Standards (Edition 1) was approved by Council in April 2007. This standard has been the framework for upwards of 40 recognisedinstitutions to deliver over 120 recognised pre-hospital emergency care courses and to make responder level awards. In 2008, Council commissioned an external educational review of the existing suite of clinical courses. The work of Dr. Hemal Thakore is acknowledged. Subsequently, every recognised course was reexamined to ensure consistency with the current edition of CPGs, other PHECC standards and the evolving scope of practice of practitioners and responders. 

Emergency Care is the title of the proposed new responder level course that aims to bridge the divide between cardiac first response and emergency first response courses. Another new course in development is Emergency First Response-Fire and is an adaptation of the current emergency first response standard for the fire services.
 
Council rules have also been revisited and the purpose of this consultation is to identify if there is consensus that all the issues relating to the recognition of institutions and courses are comprehensively addressed.

How is the 2011 standard constructed?

The development of the standard is a major project involving the review of existing standards and the creation of new material. There are 4 principal documents in the standard: 

  1. Draft Council rules for the recognition of institutions and courses
  2. Draft PHECC’s teaching faculty framework
  3. Draft Recognition of prior learning
  4. Draft Recognised courses:
  • cardiac first response
  • emergency care (special circumstances) 
  • emergency first response 
  • emergency first response-fire 
  • EMC (call taker and dispatcher) 
  • emergency medical technician
  • paramedic 
  • advanced paramedic  
 

Scope of consultation 

During this public consultation a number of key stakeholders will be targeted including: 
  1. Recognised institutions 
  2. PHECC working groups, Committees and Council
  3. CPG approved organisations 
  4. Practitioners and Responders
  5. Other targeted individuals & organisations
PHECC would like to thank you in advance for your greatly valued assistance. Please note that all submissions received are subject to the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Acts and a list of all persons who provided submissions may be published. Copies of the standards and draft documents are available the home page of our website www.phecc.ie.

You are asked to submit your feedback in writing to 

P. Dempsey
PHECC
Abbey Moat House
Abbey St.
Naas 
Co Kildare. or by email to pauline@phecc.ie
 

What next?

During the consultation period, all the responses will be reviewed and the comments considered as part of the ongoing development of the standard. At the end of this designated period, the feedback will be compiled and discussed by the Accreditation Committee and Council in early December. 

PHECC would like to clarify that recognition of institutions under a 2007 application will continue for a minimum period of 3 years. During the transition a number ofinstitutions have or will have their 3 year period extended. In 2011 it is envisaged that institutions will reapply for course recognition on a phased basis. PHECC will work with individual institutions and endeavour to keep disruption to scheduled training courses to a minimum.