Adam Bedson
Doctorate
Doctorate Title: An investigation of paramedic independent and supplementary prescribing by advanced paramedics in emergency and urgent care settings.
Doctorate Description:
Research Question:
How is paramedic independent prescribing being implemented into emergency and urgent care and what is required to maximise its potential for patients and the wider NHS?
A mixed methods exploratory sequential design will be used. This will involve semi structured interviews with key stakeholders, case study research within emergency and urgent care settings and an online questionnaire survey.
Research Objectives:
1) To evaluate the scope and scale of PISP, including the range and frequency of medications prescribed and conditions treated.
2) To investigate the frequency, safety and appropriateness of simultaneous prescribing and dispensing for administration or supply by advanced paramedics (APs).
3) To investigate key stakeholders’ views of the benefits and limitations of PISP. This will include views on the required level of experience and education, organisational readiness and controlled drug restrictions.
4) To ascertain if and how PISP has changed AP practice, confidence and autonomy.
5) To investigate whether APs are able to access support for their prescribing decisions and how pressure to prescribe is managed.
Details:
Type: PhD
University: University of Southampton
Primary Supervisor: Professor Sue Latter
Category: Professional Development
Funding: NHS Employer
Start Date: 2021
End Date: 2026
Status: Ongoing
Thesis
Awaiting
Research Interests
non medical prescribing, advanced practice, pre hospital care, urgent care
Publications
1) Bedson, A. (2020) Prescribing in an Emergency: Non-Medical Prescribing by Paramedics in Emergency, Urgent and Critical Care Settings. Journal of Paramedic Practice. (In press).
2) Bedson, A, (2020) Evidence Based Paramedic Prescribing; Implementing Research and Evidence Based Guidance into Prescribing Practice. Journal of Paramedic Practice. (In press)
3) Bedson, A. and Latter, S. (2018) Providing medicines in emergency and urgent care: a survey of specialist paramedics’ experiences of medication supply and views on paramedic independent prescribing. British Paramedic Journal. (3) 1-9.
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