FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is it possible to get the patients name added to the text alerts?
- As per Irish Legislation this is not possible.
- The National Ambulance Service (NAS) has applied a Clinical Indemnity level of ‘CFR-Community’ to all First Responders except when the First Responder is an employee of the NAS.
- For further information please contact Community Engagement Officer
- Yes. Members of all voluntary organisations are welcome to set up/join Community First Responder groups however No Voluntary or Auxiliary organisation will have operational control of any CFR group directly linked to the National Ambulance Service.
- There must also be no onus on members of the community to join with any voluntary or auxiliary organisation in order to become CFRs in their community.
- Regardless of any Community Members position/training/clinical grade within a Voluntary/Auxiliary organisation, this member’s clinical indemnity does not exceed CFR-Community when operating as a member of a National Ambulance Service CFR group.
- The National Ambulance Service, through the Community Engagement Officers, will support any linked group in their efforts to gain funding through grants processes.
- There is no onus on any member of any NAS Linked CFR group to join any secondary organisation
- No.
- No.
- As Per Policy, NASCG007, each member responding to calls must be at least 18 years of age.
- The National Ambulance Service is an Irish Heart/AHA affiliated training site and as such any Instructors linking to this site must hold Dual AHA/PHECC certification. Instructors with this certification are welcome to apply, All queries to your relevant Community Engagement Officer
- Non CFR approved Dispatch code- 01A01- Abdominal Pain or 29D01 Road Traffic Collision
- CFRs are only dispatched to a specific subset of calls within a set ‘geofenced’ area.
- Calls within a close proximity of that area that are outside the assigned area, will not generate a call out.
- Emergency Dispatchers cannot physically dispatch CFRs to calls, this system is automated!!
- A patient’s condition can deteriorate. IE If in the initial call, the patient is breathing and then they subsequently stop breathing, the call code can be changed if the caller calls 112/999 again and informs the dispatchers. The higher priority code may lead to a CFR Dispatch however there are times when this call back does not happen and an Ambulance crew will arrive to find the patient is not breathing.
- Upon consultation with the National Ambulance Service Medical Director, these changes do not apply to CFR groups linked with the NAS and as such these medications should not be carried by groups.
- The use of these medications exceeds the clinical indemnity of a CFR.