Ambulance Services in Northeast Dublin
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Presentation
on
North East Ambulance Service
from
Oliver Reilly, Asst Chief Ambulance Officer
to
Regional Health Forum – Dublin North East
26th April 2010
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Role & Purpose
The role and purpose of the Health Service Executive National Ambulance Service is to provide a clinically appropriate and timely pre-hospital care and transportation service
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Key Operational Roles
Provide Pre-Hospital Emergency Medical Services
Provide routine non-ambulant patient transport within the health care sector
Operate the Ambulance Command & Control Centre
To participate with internal and external organisations in the areas of Major Emergency Management
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Area of Operation
Louth, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan
Area - 6,500 sq. KM
Population - 360,000
10,000 kms of road network - N1,M1,N2,N3,N4
Daily bus services to/from Dublin as well as transit traffic
Enterprise rail services daily between Dublin and Belfast - 200-500 passengers
Local train services - circa 4,000 passengers daily
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Command & Control Centre Located in Navan Deals with all emergency,
urgent and routine ambulance and patient transport requests
Computer Aided Dispatch system
Automatic Vehicle Location System
Ordnance Survey Mapping
An Post Gazetteer Links to neighbouring
centres
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Call Categories
Emergency – Immediate response usually via 999/112 emergency centres
Urgent – Within one hour or as agreed with GP
Routine – Pre-Planned calls no time limit (transfers, OPD clinics)
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Activity 2009
Emergency Calls
GP Urgent Admissions
Non Urgent Calls
Total Calls Total Mileage
17,343 6,621 13,799 37,763 1,717,652
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Ambulance Stations & Resources
Cavan; 2 crews x day, 1 x night
Virginia; 1 crew x day, 1x night
Navan; 3 crews x day, 2x night
Dunshaughlin; 2 crews x day, 1 x night
Drogheda; 2 crews x day, 1 x night
Ardee; 1 crew x day, 1 x night
Castleblayney; 1 crew x day, 1 x night
Dundalk; 3 crews x day, 2 x night
Monaghan; 2 crews x day, 2 x night 1 RRV 24/7
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Training Developments
1967 First Basic Ambulance Aid Course (6 weeks) 1986 National Ambulance Training School
Established 1988 Ambulance Aid Refresher Course (2 weeks) 1997 Emergency Medical Technician (Conversion)
Course in conjunction with UCD (6 weeks) 2006 Advanced Paramedic Training Programme (12
months) 2008 Paramedic Training Programme (24 months)
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Staff
Title Number
Chief Ambulance OfficerAsst Chief Ambulance Officer
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Operations OfficerControl & Communications Officer
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Training OfficerEmergency Management Officer
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Staff cont’d………
Emergency Medical Controller-Team Leader
Emergency Medical Controller
49
Leading ParamedicAdvanced Paramedic
Paramedic
212094
Patient Transport ServiceAdministration
96
Total 171
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Advanced Paramedic
Experienced ParamedicCourse duration: 35 weeks (16 distance
learning, 12 weeks clinical taught/placements, 7 weeks internship) UCD delivered
12 months Post Grad InternshipAdvanced airway proceduresCardiac drugsIntravenous infusions
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Paramedic
Registered Practitioner9 weeks college based19 weeks internship12 months Post Grad InternshipIM medications including Glucagon
and Adrenaline 1:1000Airway procedures including LMA12 lead ECG interpretation
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Fleet
Emergency Ambulance
Patient Transport Vehicle
Officer Transport Vehicle
Rapid Response Vehicle
Special/Major Incident Vehicles
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Transformation & Reconfiguration
Castleblayney Ambulance Station opened July 2009 Rapid Response Vehicle deployed in Monaghan Additional Patient Transport Service capacity Additional resources for Louth/Meath
reconfiguration Development of Direct Access Angioplasty Project Staff compliment will increase by approximately 29% Advanced Paramedic training ongoing Ambulance Service key stakeholder
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Future Developments
Further development of National Ambulance Service
Advanced Paramedic training to recommended 25% of staff
Direct access Angioplasty ProjectTETRA Digital Radio System National Communications
infrastructure
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Questions?