Our Work
The Foundation has continued to look for appropriate ways to support paramedics, and the ambulance Service since inception in 1987. We have sought to ensure that the Foundations progress has emulated the rapid improvement in pre hospital care, and paramedic practice.
From our early competition and skills based Awards, we have now progressed to focus on education and research, always ensuring close alignment with the aims and aspirations of the Queensland Ambulance Service.
This commitment will be ongoing and will build on an already impressive list of completed projects.
Overview current and past research projects
Prior to 1999 Awards were skills based. Recipients were in fact “winners” of competitions relevant to the skills and qualifications of officers at the time.
Over time, the paramedic profession in Queensland has developed to the point where our people are among the world’s best in their profession. We are proud to say that the Foundation continues to play an important part in continuing that development by providing education and research opportunities for Paramedics.
Research conducted to date has led to the implementation of new treatments and equipment to assist Queensland Ambulance Service to continue delivering a high standard of care to its patients.
Award and Grant recipients have researched different aspects of pre-hospital care from the use of certain drugs, new treatments and how to achieve better response times, to being able to report on working in remote areas of the world.
All of these are directly linked to ambulance service, and have contributed to improving patient outcomes.
Research areas
The Foundation and Queensland Ambulance encourage innovative research into the key areas of clinical, educational and operational systems (PDF / 37 KB).
Click here to see a comprehensive list of past grant recipients and their projects.
Last updated 17 August 2007
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