Hi everyone! Welcome to the Clinical Drug Harm Reduction Leads Twitter page! This page will provide lots of advice, updates, training, research and support, to help staff to deliver the best possible care! Look forward to the tweets and discussions! Julie, Lauren and Mary 😊🚑

Hi Scottish Ambulance folks, please remember to conduct your lateral flow tests, twice weekly please and upload your results to the portal. This is vitally important, thanks. Please share and RT amongst your colleagues. #ProtectYourself #ProtectYourFamily #ProtectPatients 🚑🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦠

Extended drives take us around Scotland and Northern England ! This allows our students to experience extended driving times, honing new skills learned during day and night conditions. SAS Education - West Region SAS Education - East Region

Another 4 week SQAERAD course successfully completed by 44 participants ! Well done to everyone involved, students and instructors alike ! On another note we get to do it all again on Monday ! We look forward to welcoming another 44 students. SAS Education - West Region SAS Education - East Region

Great to see the abstract of our award winning #covid19 prehospital study published in this month's #EMJ David Lowe Edward Duncan Catherine Best alasdair corfield @Chicco_Stat et al using linked data from Scottish Ambulance and Public Health Scotland emj.bmj.com/content/38/9/A…

Congratulations to all the candidates who completed their SQAERAD course yesterday ! Another 30 emergency response drivers trained. East and north students complete. We welcome the first group of West VQ student technicians training on Monday the 6th. SAS Education - West Region SAS Education - East Region

Congratulations to all SQAERAD students on passing their course. 4 weeks complete. Back to clinical training for 2 weeks then onto practice placement! Good Luck to you all. We start again on Monday where we welcome the remaining West region VQ students & NQPs. SAS Education - West Region

Thoroughly enjoying the new challenge in SAS Education - East Region and supporting the VQ4 students who have been awesome. Such a highly dedicated group of CTO's in SAS Education - East Region SAS Education - West Region & @SASEPDDNorth - fantastic to be part of the Team!

All the very best to SAS Education - East Region VQ4s who start on the frontline this week. Deep breath......remember your A-Es and that JRCALC is your friend!! Be kind to yourself....you are still learning and your CTO's remain beside you 👍😎. The learning never stops!! #prehospitalfamily

Well done 🎉to the final cohort of VQ technicians and first cohort of NQPs on passing their SQAERAD course. Good luck and stay safe whilst transporting our patients. We go again Monday with our next cohort of NQPs quickly followed 1 week later by the North VQ techs SAS Education - West Region

Today we welcomed our new VQ technicians based in the North region. 9 vehicles in 5 locations. Adding these vehicles to 7 already 1 week in. Good luck to you all over the next 4 weeks. Scott FutureQuals SAS Education - West Region SAS Education - East Region

Contact made, thank you for your kind words Gillian Naysmith. Always nice to be able to engage with the community outside of when they have need of us.

Congratulations to all the students from NTECH 02/21 who recently successfully completed their clinical modules and all the very best for their practice placement from the education team.

Fabulous exploratory meeting with @pimpmymemory Antony Devine this morning......discussing education, psychology, research and how we can best support Scottish Ambulance clinicians and students learn. Eye opening!! Thank you!

Really useful meeting with the awesome @tom0mcewan talking obstetrics research and education this morning. Building the evidence to underpin education NHS Education for Scotland (NES) Antony Devine Cheryl Harvey Emma Stirling

2nd grant application submitted today. An awesome collaboration with @pimpmymemory @tom0mcewan Suzy Paterson Jerry Morse @Theshortie1976 Graeme Hay Antony Devine Belinda Flanagan. A multi professional, educationally focused project to improve care and outcomes.

@medicalvis Rowan Fitzpatrick Anatomy@UofG SIT-GSA UofG MVLS Thoroughly enjoyed and was an absolute pleasure!! Thanks to Adam Lloyd. Nurse-Ph.D & Antony Devine from Scottish Ambulance for supporting too. Team work makes the dream work!!

This week marks the end of an era for SAS Education - East Region with our move to Scottish Ambulance NHQ. I’ve have literally had the best two years of my career in education led by the forward thinking, highly regarded Antony Devine, colleagues in the East SAS Education - West Region and North. 🤞we continue!

David Fitzpatrick 🌈 🚑 🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 🇦🇺 SAS Education - East Region Scottish Ambulance Antony Devine SAS Education - West Region Sad times seeing this education hub close, lots of #ambulance clinicians supported and educated in Grangemouth by an awesome team of #clinicaleducators Good luck with the move and new office 👌