Paramedic practitioners work independently within their scope of practice in the community, using their enhanced clinical assessment and treatment skills, to provide first point of contact for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems to assess, and manage patients presenting with acute presentations which include minor illness, or injury, abdominal pains, chest pains and headaches. They are health professionals who practice at an advanced level having the capability to make sound judgements in the absence of full information and to manage varying degrees of risk when there are complex, competing or ambiguous information or uncertainty., Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment [including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE [national] and local guidelines and local care pathways] or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.

Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to the PCNs social prescribing service, and where appropriate, other community or voluntary services.

Perform specialist health checks and reviews within their scope of practice and in line with local and national guidance

Rochdale Health Alliance (RHA) is dedicated to contracting and delivering high quality health services to the community of Heywood Middleton and Rochdale (HMR) on behalf of its GP Practice member. Our ethos is to improve patient outcomes and experience whilst keeping Primary Care at the forefront of the NHS reforms. Bury Primary Care Network has recently joined RHA.