Paramedic Science: Useful Websites

Not all websites are of academic standard or trustworthy.  The following websites are related to your profession and have standing within your industry.  They may be helpful for current awareness, your professional development, or specific forms of information relevant to your studies.

• CASP Checklists This set of eight critical appraisal tools are designed to be used when reading research. CASP has appraisal checklists designed for use with Systematic Reviews, Randomised Controlled Trials, Cohort Studies, Case Control Studies, Economic Evaluations, Diagnostic Studies, Qualitative studies and Clinical Prediction Rule.

• College of Paramedics The College of Paramedics is the recognised professional body for paramedics and the ambulance profession in the UK.

• Department of Health Information on public health, adult social care and the NHS.

• Health & Care Professions Council Details of the HCPC role and remit.

• Health Education England:e-learning for health portal e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) is a Health Education England (HEE) Programme working in partnership with the NHS and professional bodies to support patient care by providing e-learning to educate and train the health and social care workforce.

• National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Provides independent, authoritative and evidence-based guidance on the most effective ways to prevent, diagnose and treat disease and ill health, reducing inequalities and variation.

• NHS The UK’s largest Health website. Contains information for patients and NHS services.

• NHS Evidence NHS Evidence is a service that provides easy access to high quality clinical and non-clinical information about health and social care. NHS Evidence hosts content and searches external sources of information so that users can access it directly. For information on how to access NHS Athens accounts contact the Health Librarian - Dawn Grundy

• World Health Organisation