Thanks to Kirsty - Head of Education at the College of Paramedics for her insights in to the upcoming curriculum updates for paramedics, helping the conversations around workforce planning and work based learning opportunities on the East of England Dr Hein Scheffer Ant Kitchener

Today we hosted a regional placement workshop on behalf on NHS England - great to hear from UEA A/Prof. Lawrence Hill about his recent publication and considerations for our future paramedic workforce. Ant Kitchener Dr Hein Scheffer

We’re recently recruited 25 brilliant Paramedics to trainee #ACP posts within our Urgent Care Advanced Practice teams across EEAST Ambulance Service - excited to start them on their educational journey with School of Health Sciences UEA soon. Ant Kitchener EEAST Education Melissa Dowdeswell Paul Gates

Another colleague stepping up their clinical capabilities thorough funded development EEAST Education - it will be great to add more prescribers to our advancing practice teams, meaning more opportunity to deliver care closer to home EEAST Primary & Urgent Care …good luck Tom Olley

Thanks to Nick Williams 🚑 one of our Advanced Paramedics EEAST Primary & Urgent Care managing our history taking station today …feeling at home in the back of an ambo!

Fab to have Dr Simon Butler (ACP-Paramedicine/Neuroscientist) Dr Simon Butler supporting our new tACPs and assessing pharmacology knowledge EEAST Education - lots of great answers from candidates today!

Specialist Paramedic Simon EEAST Primary & Urgent Care has been putting our future ACPs through their paces, dusting off his skills as a former training officer. Systems assessments and clinical reasoning well and truest tested! #ThanksSimon #WeAreEEAST

Our one and only lead ACP Tim EEAST Primary & Urgent Care playing master of ceremonies and keeping on top of the admin today as we assess future tACPs at #Peterborough - thanks to North Cambs LOM Team for their hospitality today!

Great to be out with our flying faculty today EEAST Education EEAST Primary & Urgent Care - completing our our 4th regional assessment centre for our tACP programme.

Amazing work from our PROMPT faculty and the team of PHP02 for delivery of our 1st EEAST PROMPT course.
Thank you all for an amazing interactive day, can’t wait to make these days a staple in our education programmes.
#safepractice #prehospital
PROMPT Maternity EEAST Education

We have just launched a maturity framework to record ACP competencies at EEAST, mapped to the same standards - so this is a fab on-line version that can help facilitate just this! EEAST Primary & Urgent Care - get signing up! Non-CoP membership link in the twitter-trail from HelenBW

What are weekends for? Prepping our new transition programme for Specialist Paramedics who are up skilling as trainee ACPs in Urgent Care. Looking forward to meeting them all on Monday! #AdvancedPractice #Education EEAST Primary & Urgent Care Ant Kitchener

Thanks to colleagues PRESTIGE Fire | Safety | Security putting our staff through their paces during their fire safety and fire marshal updates today Peterborough (and across our Trust sites). 🔥 🔥 🔥 EEAST Safety & Experience

Great to see both our Head of Education and our Head of Clinical Development as authors in the latest text for paramedics. ChrisMcG Ant Kitchener 📚📖📗📝🖋️👨‍🎓⬇️⬇️⬇️

For working in the GP setting, another skill area is assessment of lumps & bumps. We have invested in lymph node simulation / breast examination manikins to help prepare our APs with this element of Clinical #AdvancedPractice #UrgentPrimaryCare Ant Kitchener EEAST Primary & Urgent Care

More advanced practice equipment coming to our AP pathways …this time SimScopes to help practice hearing abnormal heart sounds, bowel sounds and bruit as part of diagnostics and patient assessment #AdvancedPractice #UrgentPrimaryCare Ant Kitchener EEAST Primary & Urgent Care

Otoscopy is another skill our specialist paramedics need to master, and our new ear examination trainers will help with just that! #AdvancedPractice Ant Kitchener EEAST Primary & Urgent Care Clinical Leads

Eye eye! We have taken delivery of some new training manikins as part of our plans to strengthen our #AdvancedPractice education pathways …coming to an advanced paramedic near you very soon! EEAST Primary & Urgent Care Clinical Leads Ant Kitchener

Pre-Hospital Practitioner Roles: Are you a Nurse or Allied Health Professional with experience in an acute setting? Do you have high levels of autonomy and experience in managing a complex range of patient presentations? eastamb.nhs.uk/join-the-team/

End of an era for the DipHE Paramedic Science, as we now transition fully to the Paramedic Degree Apprenticeship. Literally hundreds of graduates across the years - so a massive thanks to all colleagues who have supported this pathway over its lifespan 👨‍🎓 👩‍🏫 🏫