Ambulance UK August 2022

NEWSLINE
NWAS
Australasian
paramedics set
to join North West
Ambulance Service
(NWAS)
Fifteen paramedics who
have trained in Australia and
New Zealand will soon begin
responding to 999 calls across
areas of the North West as
part of a brand new Health
Education England (HEE)
Ethical Migratory Pathway.
Developed through HEE’s
Directorate of Global Health
Partnerships (DGHP), the pilot
gives an exciting opportunity
for internationally educated
paramedics in prehospital
emergency care to join the NHS
– the world’s largest single heath
system.
There are three UK ambulance
services taking part with around
75 paramedics joining the
NHS across the UK. They have
emigrated from all over Australia
and New Zealand to work in
England.
NWAS Director of People, Lisa
Ward says: “The North West has
so much to offer and for those
making the move, the job here
is like no other. Not only is the
North West one of the most
vibrant places to live in, it is also
one of the most challenging
and varied environments you
can work in as a clinician. We
are committed to providing
services which embrace diversity,
and which promote equality of
opportunity and we welcome
our latest recruits to our green
family.”
The pilot is a positive partnership
which will help to address the
national shortage of paramedics
in the UK as their skills are
sought after across other parts
of the health service. This is just
one of the initiatives NWAS is
looking at to continue to boost
its paramedic workforce and
respond to growing patient
demand, alongside its UK
recruitment.
Lisa continues: “Our colleagues
at London Ambulance Service
have had similar initiatives to
recruit paramedics from Australia
and it now has a community
of Australian paramedics all of
whom are vital in helping care for
patients. We would like this pilot
to build on their successes.”
Ian Buczynski, Senior Programme
Manager for Ethical Migratory
Pathways at HEE says: “When
identifying countries to partner
with, HEE looked for countries
in which paramedics were
trained to a similar standard to
UK-educated paramedics and
could meet the Health and Care
Professionals Council (HCPC)
registration requirements.
“Also high on the agenda was
to fi nd countries which had an
oversupply of paramedics and
a history of migration from the
country. Australia and New
Zealand were identifi ed as being
the most closely aligned to these
criteria and was selected for this
pilot.”
HEE has run international ethical,
sustainable, and educationbased
migratory pathways for
several years to allow nurses,
doctors, and radiographers to
join the NHS. This has paved
the way for the pilot to target
newly qualifi ed paramedics from
universities in Australia and New
Zealand which run a paramedic
practice, paramedic science
and paramedicine bachelors
programme like those offered by
UK universities.
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