A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION INTO PARAMEDICS’ THOUGHTS ABOUT THE INTRODUCTION OF NATIONAL EARLY WARNING SCORES

Background

The National Early Warning Score (NEWS) is a simple, rapid assessment tool developed by the Royal College of Physicians to standardise the assessment and monitoring of acutely ill patients and facilitate communication across settings. Ambulance Service introduced NEWS in 2013/14. Previous work in this area showed that paramedics were not using NEWS in practice so this study explored the reasons why and how paramedics use, or don’t use, NEWS in practice.

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