We are
Prehospital Qualitologists
Our WHY
We feel curious about the concept of quality in the context of prehospital care.
Our HOW
We engage with and add to knowledge of prehospital care quality. We collaborate internationally and use scientific methods to challenge and improve the systems we work in.
Our WHAT
We are a growing international network of prehospitalists who drive meaningful change in quality - we are prehospital qualitologists.
Who we are
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Dr Robin Pap
Founder and co-lead
Robin is a critical care paramedic who has worked in various clinical, leadership, and academic roles in six countries, across four continents, for over 20 years. Nowadays, he lives in Sydney where he is the Director of Academic Program for Paramedicine at Western Sydney University. Robin feels particularly curious about how the concept of prehospital care quality can be defined and evaluated.
Dr Tegwyn McManamny
Founder and co-lead
Tegwyn is a critical care paramedic, educator and researcher who works in clinical safety and quality. She is the Executive Director Quality and Clinical Innovation at Ambulance Victoria. Tegwyn is passionate about the delivery of safe, quality prehospital care that is person-centred.
Dr Robbie Lloyd
Founder and co-lead
Robbie is a consultant in emergency medicine. He completed his training in Essex and London, and currently works at Barts Health NHS Trust. Robbie has completed fellowships in Prehospital Care (Aeromedical Operations, New South Wales Ambulance, Australia), Community Emergency Medicine (The Physician Response Unit, London, UK) and medical education (Whittington NHS Trust, London, UK). He is interested in quality improvement, medical education, and knowledge management. He enjoys trying to make people, processes, and departments better.
Dr Ian Blanchard
Core member
Ian Blanchard (PhD, MSc, BSc, ACP) has worked in paramedicine systems in Canada and the United Kingdom for the last thirty years in various capacities, including as an Advanced Care Paramedic, quality assurance strategist, and researcher. Currently he is the Senior Scientist for the Alberta Health Services (AHS) Emergency Medical Services system, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Department of Community Health Sciences, in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. In these capacities, Ian is working with a dedicated group of individuals to build the science, research and knowledge translation enterprise of paramedicine systems and the paramedic profession.
Dr Jo Coster
Core member
Jo is a social scientist and mixed methods researcher at the University of Sheffield (UK) where she is Deputy Director of the Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research (CURE). She had an integral role in developing innovative ways to measure the quality of prehospital care as a key contributor to the PhOEBE Project, and her PhD addressed critical questions around the safety, appropriateness and acceptability of ambulance telephone advice for low-urgency health concerns. Jo is driven by a strong commitment to inclusive research and is interested in further understanding the concept of prehospital care quality from patient and care provider perspectives and in developing measures of prehospital quality that are meaningful to and reflective of patient and clinician experiences.
Dr Robbie King
Core member
Robbie is a registered community paramedic. He provides clinical care in an emergency ambulance health service setting and paramedic education as a lecturer at the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane. Robbie advocates for paramedicine to explore the patient perspective of paramedic-led healthcare, particularly during non-emergency presentations. He believes development of a Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) is an essential component, within a range of tools, to evaluate the quality of ambulance health service and paramedic led healthcare.
Our structure
Our network consists of three tiers.
Our core comprises the co-leads and core members. They are a global group of individuals who actively engage, collaborate, and meaningfully add to knowledge of prehospital care quality. They are clinicians and researchers who apply scientific methods to investigate and ultimately improve the quality of prehospital care.
We feel strongly about patients and the public contributing a unique voice to research and quality improvement. In line with the principle of “Nothing about us without us”, we believe it is important for our structure to reflect patient and public involvement in the work that we do.
Our followers are interested in the work that we do. They are consumers of knowledge, updates, or insights shared by the network. This may include research findings, event notifications, or news relevant to the field of prehospital qualitology.