'Public Health Paramedicine' with Andrew Furber

In this episode we will examine how the evolution of public health is migrating through to ambulance services and creating future opportunities within this field of practice. In May of last year AACE (the association of Ambulance Chief Executives) published a discussion paper around developing a public health approach within the ambulance sector. This paper starts by denoting that every 24 hours, the NHS has contact with over a million people, and the ambulance sector is at the fore front of these interactions. So we also know that ill health maps across social deprivation and indeed constitutes a high percentage of pre-hospital work, so I want to dig into all of the above with Dr Andrew Furber.

Andrew has been the Regional Director for Public Health England (Northwest) and Regional Director of Public Health NHS NW since May 2020. He was previously Centre Director for Public Health England (PHE) in Yorkshire and Humber. He has worked as a Director of Public Health from 2007 to 2018 and is a past President of the Association of Directors of Public Health UK (ADPH). He was awarded an OBE for services to public health in the Jubilee Birthday Honours List.

In this episode we examine:

• The necessity of taking a population perspective and approach to public health.
• What the data is telling us about pre-hospital public health.
• Potential preventative strategies.
• Looking at the wider, societal determinants of health and wellbeing and focusing on reducing inequalities.
• The challenge of working in partnership across health systems.
• Future opportunities for Paramedics in the domain of public health.
• Final take home points from Andrew. 

Please find more information here: https://aace.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Single-pages-Public-Health-Approach-Ambulance-Sector.final_.pdf

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