Robbie King

Paramedic

Australia

Doctorate Title: Exploring patients’ experience of non-conveyance after receiving an emergency ambulance service response.

Doctorate Description: The scope of this research project is to generate new knowledge regarding patients’ who receive an emergency ambulance service response, are attended by a paramedic and subsequently not conveyed to hospital. This project aims to explore the experience of non-conveyance from the patients’ perspective. It will also describe various characteristics and features of these cases, including frequency, and rates of repeat requests for ambulance services following an episode of non-conveyance.