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Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee

Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee
JRCALC
Founded	1989
Location	United Kingdom
Website	www.jrcalc.org.uk

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]}

Operations

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]

Executive committee

• Chairman - Dr Wim Blancke^{[ citation needed]}
• Joint honorary secretaries - Dr Fiona Jewkes & Mr M O'Flaherty^{[ citation needed]}
• Honorary treasurer - Dr Fionna Moore^{[ citation needed]}
• Committee administrator - Carole Long^{[ citation needed]}

Guideline Development Group members

• Dr Simon Brown - Chairman^{[ citation needed]}
• Professor Matthew Cooke - Project Director^{[ citation needed]}
• Dr Joanne Fisher - Senior Research Fellow^{[ citation needed]}
• Stephen Hines - Paramedic Project Advisor^{[ citation needed]}
• Prof Mike Smyth - Paramedic Project Advisor^{[ citation needed]}

The guideline development group relies upon the unpaid work of numerous clinicians to complete the systematic reviews to support the guidelines. ^[5]

Guidelines

• Version 1 - 2000 ^[6]
• Version 2 - 2004^{[ citation needed]}
• Version 3 - April 2006^{[ citation needed]}
• Version 4 - April 2013 ^[7]

References

External links

• Official website