Community First Responders' Role in the Current & Future Rural Health &

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

Community First Responders (CFRs) are trained members of the public, lay people or off-duty healthcare staff who volunteer to provide first aid. CFRs help ambulance services to provide care for people having health emergencies, from falls to road accidents to heart attacks, at home or in public places. CFRs are particularly important in rural areas where it is more difficult to provide or access emergency care, and where they are an important part of the care workforce. CFRs are broadly perceived to be positive, however evidence is needed about how they contribute to rural health services, which patients/conditions they attend, what care they provide, how effective they are and at what cost, how they are perceived by patients and other health workers, and how they could be developed to improve care for rural communities. The investigators aim to develop recommendations for rural CFRs, by exploring their contribution to rural care, evaluating their value for money, understanding experiences and views of patients, CFRs and other healthcare staff, and exploring the potential for CFRs to provide new services.

Clinical Trial Description

The project will involve the following steps: 1. Analyse records from six ambulance services to see: how many people CFRs attended; the proportion of ambulance calls attended; age, sex and conditions of people attended; how quickly CFRs attended and what happened to the patient(s) when the ambulance arrived. 2. Evaluate benefits and costs of CFRs attending rural emergencies. 3. Interview patients/relatives, ambulance staff, GPs, funders, CFRs and CFR leads to obtain views on rural CFR current and potential future roles. Interviews will also explore with CFRs and CFR leads, challenges and solutions to recruiting, training, retaining rural CFRs and ensuring safe, high quality care. 4. Combine this knowledge (gained in steps1-3 above) to develop recommendations for change; who will be involved and how services should change to solve the most pressing problems for the rural communities served. 5. Present recommendations to a workshop of experts and public to agree priorities for future development. ;

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT04279262
Study type	Observational
Source	University of Lincoln
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase
Start date	June 1, 2020
Completion date	December 3, 2022

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Community First Responders' Role in the Current and Future Rural Health and Care Workforce

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