EXTENDING REACH
PARAMEDIC PRACTICE Bringing paramedic undergraduate education to Grampian and the Highlands & Islands
When we fill demand with opportunity and help students to study closer to home, we support their professional ambitions and give them the skills to improve the communities in which they live. We’ve been successful in our bid to bring paramedic undergraduate education to the Highlands & Islands and Grampian, boosting the capacity for training new paramedics in Scotland and enhancing patient care for many communities in the future. The new BSc Paramedic Practice at RGU will be delivered from September 2020. By extending the reach, not just of our own courses but for the training of an entire profession, we provide more localised educational opportunities for students to learn highly specialised skills and knowledge. 6
The course is being developed to provide a new regional approach to education and training for the profession and addresses the increased learning requirement for registering as a paramedic through the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC). Professor Ian Murray, Head of the School of Nursing and Midwifery at RGU, said: “This is a welcome addition to our course portfolio and fits well with the wide range of nursing, midwifery and allied health professions courses at RGU and our commitment to interprofessional learning. “We’ll be working in partnership with the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) and other Scottish universities, to develop the new course and train the future paramedics of Scotland. The two contracts awarded will involve a
