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ECPs are an excellent example of a really successful new form of advanced front-line clinician. They were developed from the ground up, harmonised across the country by sharing benefits and picking the best from each site.

Initially involved with the 17 pilot sites the national team encouraged local innovation, my work was twofold:

1. to coach the sites so that they reported what they had achieved, and just as importantly the lessons learnt, so that others could steal with pride and converge on a single model
2. to justify investment by PCTs and Ambulance Trusts in 800 of these advanced practitioners.

ECPs continue to remain a distinct and homogeneous new profession, one of very few widely adopted new professionals in 15 years, and I continue to serve on the national panel steering the profession to registration. See also Contributions to publications (at end page) including ‘Measuring the Benefits of the Emergency Care Practitioner’ (a review of the literature) 2007.