Delighted to present Emergency Medical Responder Volunteer Doctor Jason Horan with his new Škoda Ireland Rapid Response Vehicle in #Mayo earlier today. Costing over €70,000 the project has been part funded by The Department of Rural & Community Development via CLAR #Ireland2040

Dr Austin O’Carroll has inspired many a medical student to become a GP! Tireless in his fight against health and social inequality, and for disability rights, he is a genuine man for others irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

To mark #InternationalOverdoseAwarenessDay, the Nalox-Home pilot has launched in St James’s Hospital 🏥 This pilot is a collaboration between our Emergency Medicine Department and Inclusion Health Service, and HSE Social Inclusion Read the full piece below 👇 bit.ly/NaloxHomeSJHHSE

Thanks to UCD Centre EMS and National Ambulance Service 🇮🇪🚑 for the help with this study. Thanks theBPJ for publishing! Stroke Association Croí Heart & Stroke UK Stroke Research Workshop 2024 Irish Heart Foundation Link: ingentaconnect.com/contentone/tco…

NEW: 🌎 Implementation of community paramedicine programmes ✍️ Brendan Shannon Alan M. Batt Georgette Eaton Matthew Leÿenaar Peter OMeara Tomás Barry Chelsea Lanos Gary Wingrove Brett Williams ChiefMNolan ray carney jdheffern A/Prof Kelly-Ann Bowles 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27… #ParaResearch

Should we introduce trainees and medical students to the idea of existential uncertainty earlier in their careers? John Launer bmj.com/content/382/bm…

Congratulations to Dr. Patrick O’Donnell who was recently appointed as Associate Professor of General Practice. Dr. O’Donnell is a GP who specialises in inclusion health.  He graduated from medicine at UCD in 2006 and completed his specialist training in Sligo in 2012.

Do you have a colleague who has made a difference to health care either in Ireland or internationally? This Award celebrates the contribution of the late Dr Fiona Bradley in promoting better medical practice. Nominations now open #beagp Irish College of GPs GPBuddy audgpi.ie/fiona-bradley-…

UCD School of Medicine officially receives Athena Swan Bronze Renewal Award. 🎉👏Congratulations to all those involved in the submission and for all the terrific EDI work carried out across the School. 👉 bit.ly/49nIb5Q

Systematic review of effectiveness and cost of #pharmacist medications optimisation interventions within #generalpractice - found pharmacists can reduce the number of medications and can reduce potentially inappropriate #prescribing. bmcprimcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Honored to have taken part in this international consensus process on reporting standards for first responder systems, smartphone alerting systems, and AED networks for OHCA patients coordinated by GRC. 🔗 Just published in Resuscitation: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Prof Susan Smith’s forthcoming Inaugural Lecture is on Jan 25th 6pm - Institute of Population Health in Tallaght (not on the hospital campus). Russell Building, Tallaght Cross, D24 DH74 Register: eventbrite.ie/e/inaugural-le…

Congrats UCD Medicine student David Walley and colleagues from UCD Medicine and Irish College of GPs whose paper on telemedicine in GP is published in PLOSDigital health - dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa… “Nature of general practice radically changed during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Incremental improvement in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival in Ireland over time. This is the result of much effort at emergency care systems level. Our national registry is a vital resource in improving outcomes. Still more to do. UCD Research authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S26…

Great group and incredible opportunity to present the amazing work of Peel Regional Paramedic Services and their specialist in community programs Paul Snobelen #CFRsymposium24 excited to hear the work done by so many great systems around the world

Research finds the chances of cardiac arrest survival in urban areas was 40% higher than rural settings Read more here 👉bit.ly/4bD7t0n

Bystander CPR is so important. Ireland has one of the highest rates internationally! But there is more to do. Especially in urban areas. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Bystander CPR more than doubles your likelihood of surviving a cardiac arrest in Victoria. This fabulous story of survival shows the love of a brother and all links of Victoria's world leading cardiac arrest #ChainOfSurvival in action Kudos to Sam, and the teams from

Our latest publication: Community First Responders' (CFR) role in the current and future rural health and care workforce: mixed-methods study: 6 ambulance services, 4.5 million incidents, 47 interviews 1/3 CaHRU Gupteswar Patel Dr Vanessa Botan Viet-Hai Phung journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hsdr/jyrt8674/

A scoping review of out-of-hospital research in Ireland from 2000 to 2022 - Kelly-Ann Bowles, Niamh M Cummins, Michelle O’Toole, Shane Knox, Liam Hemingway, Julia Williams, Emilia Ozioma Uzoukwu, Brett Williams, Alan M Batt, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27…