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Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee | |
JRCALC | |
Founded | 1989 |
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JRCALC is the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee. [1] Their role is to provide robust clinical speciality advice to ambulance services within the UK and it publishes regularly updated clinical guidelines[ citation needed]. The first meeting of JRCALC was in 1989 and was hosted by the Royal College of Physicians, London.[ citation needed]
The guidelines are supposed to be produced from evidence-based medicine. However, organisations such as the College of Paramedics have criticised the committee for poor reference to available evidence in the past. [2]
JRCALC have produced a number of systematic reviews on various topics. [3] Available evidence is researched and discussed by a team of academics and clinicians including representatives from all UK ambulance services, and a number of medical disciplines.[ citation needed] The Guidelines are produced by the JRCALC Guideline Development Group (JRCALC-GDG) hosted by the University of Warwick. [4]
The guideline development group relies upon the unpaid work of numerous clinicians to complete the systematic reviews to support the guidelines. [5]