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IN PERSON instrumental in developing services to ensure patients receive the care they really need. “Cathryn is a consummate professional and her dedication to improving patient care is truly outstanding. She is held in the highest esteem by her clinical colleagues both within and external to the ambulance sector. Her work with AACE and other national groups has undoubtedly improved the standards of care delivered to patients by the ambulance sector nationally. “On behalf of Yorkshire Ambulance Service I would like to thank her for all she has done and continues to do for the benefit of patients. She should be very proud of this brilliant achievement.” Cathryn James said: “I am so proud and very humbled to be awarded the Queen’s Ambulance Medal. I would not have received this if it wasn’t for the support of all my amazing colleagues and my family and friends and I can’t thank them enough. “My late father took me to the local ambulance station in 1981 for an application form and I have never looked back thanks to him. I feel privileged to do a job that I love, caring for others and playing a part in supporting improvements to patient care.” Cathryn will be presented with her medal at Buckingham Palace in due course. Other recipients of the Queen’s Ambulance Medal in the New Year’s Honours List are: • Lee Brooks, Director of Operations, Frontline Emergency Ambulance Response, Non- Emergency Patient Transport Service and Clinical Contact Centre Services, Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust • Martin Flaherty OBE, Managing Director, LAS News London Ambulance Service appoints senior paramedic to its board to boost patient care London Ambulance Service has announced that Dr John Martin will join the Trust as its Chief Paramedic and Quality Officer. This newly-created role will see Dr Martin also join the board of the country’s busiest ambulance service. He will provide professional development and guidance to paramedics and other clinical staff. His brief will also help further improve standards of patient care. Dr Martin, is a registered and practising paramedic and currently a director at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. He is also President of the College of Paramedics. He takes up his post on 1 March 2021. The role brings together for the first time responsibility for both clinical quality at the Trust and for ensuring paramedics and ambulance clinicians have access to world-class training, education and professional development. This post is a return to London for Dr Martin who was based at Edmonton, Bounds Green, Whipps Cross and Isleworth stations while completing his three year Paramedic Science degree at the University of Hertfordshire almost 20 years ago. Dr John Martin said: “After a phenomenal but difficult year across the NHS, I’m very excited to be coming back to the London Ambulance Service where I trained as a paramedic and back to ambulance services more generally. “After several years in wider healthcare roles, I’m keen to explore innovative ways of working that benefit our patients and can improve the wellbeing and professional development of staff and volunteers.” Commenting on his appointment, Heather Lawrence OBE, chair of the Trust Board, said: “It gives me great pleasure to welcome John to our trust board. London Ambulance Service is constantly challenging itself to improve the care we provide and outstanding patient care requires exceptional clinicians. “This appointment – the first of its kind in the country bringing together the quality and clinical education portfolios – is an investment in developing our people for the benefit of Londoners.” Dr Martin will report to Chief Executive Officer Garrett Emmerson who said: “I’m delighted John is coming to London Ambulance Service and bringing impressive leadership to our quality and education agendas so we can deliver outstanding patient care to Londoners. “His formidable breadth of experience - from ambulance trusts to community care and acute hospitals - make him well suited to build partnerships and deliver new ways of working as we create a world class ambulance service.” The board-level position was created following the decision of Chief Quality Officer Dr Trisha Bain to retire at the end of February. Paying tribute to Dr Bain, Garrett Emmerson said: “When Trisha and I joined several years ago, London Ambulance was in special measures. Her work in the leadership team has helped to turn the service into the high performing organisation it is today and driven real improvements in patient care. I would like to thank her for her work and wish her well in her retirement.” Dr Martin is married to Pippa, a Science technician, and has three children. He enjoys cycling, swimming and, occasionally, running. AMBULANCE UK - FEBRUARY Association of Ambulance Chief Executives • Clare Langshaw, Ambulance Operations Manager, Resilience and Specialist Operations, Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust • Keith Prior, National Director, National Ambulance Resilience Unit (NARU), West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust • Margaret Barclay, Resource Manager, Northern Ireland Ambulance Service. Dr Martin brings a wealth of experience gleaned from work at ambulance trusts, acute hospitals and in the community including development of mental health care provision. Following a career as a paramedic with East of England Ambulance Service between 2002 and 2014, Dr Martin was selected for an NHS executive leadership programme. In the six years since, he has performed a number of director roles at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and latterly with his current employer. Dr John Martin 30 For further recruitment vacancies visit: www.ambulanceukonline.com
COMPANY NEWS Terrafix, in partnership with Centerprise International, have been awarded the Ambulance Radio Programme, National Ambulance In- Vehicle Hardware Contract (MP5) Over the summer of 2020 The Ambulance Radio Programme (ARP) awarded Terrafix Limited and Centerprise International the contract to develop, supply and support an in-vehicle system comprising of a resilient ‘smart’ vehicle router, the Terrafix Vehicle Router (TVR) and tablet device capable of running the National Mobilisation Application (NMA). The consortium was chosen by competitive tender as the group that best met the requirements for the delivery of a resilient and reliable state of the art, mission critical invehicle mobile data solution. Chris Green, Managing Director of Terrafix: “Winning the contract to supply The Ambulance Radio Programme with the Terrafix TVR is a fantastic achievement for the company. We, as one of the leading Development Engineering companies in the UK are proud to keep Staffordshire very firmly on the map for Innovation. We are excited to have be chosen and we will be utilising our knowledge of the ambulance mobile environment accumulated over the past 28 years to ensure that we provide Ambulances across the UK with a resilient Mobile Data and Vehicle Solution to communicate, efficiently and effectively with the control rooms and dispatchers in a timely and accurate manner.” Jon Elliott, Director Government for Centerprise: “Centerprise are delighted to partner with Terrafix and complement their in-house capability to deliver this nationally significant programme to ARP” The contract is part of The Ambulance Radio Programme (ARP) Mobile Data Vehicle System (MDVS) for the UK NHS Ambulance Trusts. The principle of which is to provide resilient mobile data communication hardware suitable for vehicles such as Ambulances, Rapid Response and other emergency vehicles, providing the in-vehicle connectivity and functional Terrafix Vehicle Router (TVR) & NMA Software in-vehicle solution capabilities needed for the NMA Terrafix Limited (National Mobilisation Application) and other in-vehicle applications. Terrafix are a Staffordshire based company that has over 30 years’ Designed and developed by experience in developing and Terrafix the TVR is a bespoke providing bespoke automatic engineered ‘smart’ mobile router vehicle location, mobile data and that is capable of connecting to real-time information systems to multiple mobile communications the public and commercial sectors. bearers including ESN and the legacy Airwave system. TERRAFIX LIMITED Bladon House, Providing extensive capabilities, Festival Way, connectivity and interfaces the Etruria, TVR and in-vehicle tablet will then Stoke-on-Trent, give the users a full ruggedised Staffordshire ST1 5SH touch screen platform, running Follow on www.terrafix.co.uk the NMA software alongside other in-vehicle applications. Follow on twitter @TerrafixLimited The System will ensure that responding resources, Paramedics, Community Responders, even GP’s have a common platform across the UK to communicate with control rooms. It will ultimately provide a powerful communications tool that will create a secure critical communications system for all the UK Ambulance Trusts and Services. For more information call Terrafix on +44 (0) 1782 577015 or email enquiries@terrafix.co.uk About Centerprise International For over 35 years Centerprise (CI) has been acknowledged as one of the largest and most respected IT providers in the UK. A real British success story, CI has developed a steadfast reputation for delivering large scale IT projects within the Business, Defence, Education, Government and Healthcare sectors. AMBULANCE UK - FEBRUARY For the latest Ambulance Service News visit: www.ambulancenewsdesk.com 31
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