2017 Edition CPGs
The 2017 Edition CPGs will be released in the coming weeks and will be available on the PHECC web site www.phecc.ie. This has culminated in over six months work reviewing, editing and designing this new edition. The implications for practitioners is that there will be a new round of up-skilling, following privileging, by their respective licensed CPG providers. Responders will be required to certify on the new CPGs as re-certification occurs.
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Are you interested in joining one of the voluntary licensed CPG providers?
The voluntary sector of the pre-hospital emergency care continuum is made up primarily of three organisations:
• Order of Malta Ambulance Corps
• St. John Ambulance Ireland
• Irish Red Cross
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Dr Jacqueline Burke appointed Chair of Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council
 Jacqueline Burke has been appointed Chair of the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council and has recently taken up her four-year term.
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Governance Validation Framework (GVF)
The Governance Validation Framework (GVF) is a quality assurance initiative which provides assurances to Council and promotes quality improvement practices within licensed CPG providers. PHECC has been developing this framework since 2015 and its trial phase is almost complete.
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2016 Responder Certificate Statistics
 Here’s a look at the responder certificate activity with our recognised institutions (RIs) who provide the suite of PHECC responder courses. This listing encompasses both provider and instructor level courses and compares the 2016 stats with 2015 certificate numbers. The number of responders continues to grow across the spectrum.
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What’s happening with SI No 449 of 2015 and PHECC’s newest suite of responder courses – Cardiac First Response and Medications for Listed Organisations (CFR and MLOs) and the Emergency First Response Add-on Module?
Over the past year PHECC undertook significant development work in laying the foundation for the rollout of education for non-medical persons to administer emergency life-saving medicines. (See the Autumn 2016 Voice and our detailed FAQs).
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Order of Malta Ambulance Corps ALS Conference 2017
The Order of Malta hosted its second Advanced Life Support (ALS) conference for its members in Athlone, Co. Westmeath on Saturday 28th of January. The ALS conference provided instructors and members with further insights into training and developments when dealing with various aspects of pre-hospital emergency care. This year the conference theme was ‘Medical Emergencies’.
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EMT CPC Roadshow
The first of the EMT CPC roadshows took place on Friday 17th February in Dublin. Since then roadshows have taken place in Sligo, Galway, Mullingar, Kilkenny and Cork.
There has been huge interest in these events with over 600 EMTs in attendance.
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Progress Update on the Occupational First Aid and First Aid Response Transition Project
The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council and the Health and Safety Authority are continuing to progress the transition of OFA to FAR as the national standard for first aid in the workplace.
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Respond 2017
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 Over 450 attend 4th National First Responder Conference
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International expert says Ireland is the only country with a National First Responder
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NetworkNational Ambulance Service and CFR Ireland sign Joint Framework
CFR Ireland, the First Responder Network, held its fourth annual conference, #Respond2017, on 4th March in Mullingar.
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Dublin Wicklow Mountain Rescue Team
 Dublin Wicklow Mountain Rescue Team (DWMRT) has become a licensed CPG provider with the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC). This is an important development, as it will help DWMRT adhere to best practices in patient care. It also enables the team to provide advanced patient care, for the first time, during mountain rescue operations. This change means that DWMRT personnel, who work as emergency medical technicians (EMT), paramedics, and advanced paramedics in their day jobs, can now operate to those same standards of care while volunteering with mountain rescue. Prior to PHECC approval, these team members were not authorised to provide this level of care.
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Frontline Mo-Bro’s – supporting the fight against cancer and raising awareness of men’s mental health issues
PHECC registered practitioners are always surprising us with their activities for charity.
Each year in November men around the world join together in unison and donate their upper lips to charity. No matter how good or bad their moustaches are they all have one goal, to raise awareness for the charity that's become known as Movember. In Ireland members of the emergency and voluntary services have been growing Mo’s to support the fight against men’s cancer and to bring awareness and support to men's mental health issues.
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Emergency Medicine Student Society Ireland SimWars 2017
 The School of Medicine at University College Dublin recently hosted ‘SimWars’, a medical simulation competition for medical and nursing students in Ireland.
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