Paramedic Project Regional Deep Dive 2023 – 24
HEE South West commissioned a piece of work to ‘undertake a regional ‘deep dive’ into the practice-based learning (PBL) requirements for Paramedics’.
The project was undertaken for a variety of reasons including:
•Paramedic students previously undertake their placements within the Ambulance Service and Trusts however their capacity is limited due to numbers of students needing placements
•Covid 19 limited students placements – prior to Covid paramedic students regularly undertook placements in Mental Health, maternity and learning disabilities services which closed their doors to students during the pandemic and never opened them back up to paramedic students
•Fulfilling the requirements of the NHS Long term plan
•Students require exposure to a variety of settings and patient groups that they will engage with within prehospital care
•There are many services that currently do not host paramedic students and their knowledge and expertise would make for a rich and nutritious learning environment
