Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee

JRCALC is the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee. Their role is to provide robust clinical speciality advice to ambulance services within the UK and it publishes regularly updated clinical guidelines. The first meeting of JRCALC was in 1989 and was hosted by the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Operations
The guidelines are supposed to be produced from evidence-based medicine. However, organisations such as the College of Paramedics have criticised the committee for poor reference to available evidence in the past.

JRCALC have produced a number of systematic reviews on various topics. Available evidence is researched and discussed by a team of academics and clinicians including representatives from all UK ambulance services, and a number of medical disciplines. The Guidelines are produced by the JRCALC Guideline Development Group (JRCALC-GDG) hosted by the University of Warwick.

Executive committee

 * Chairman - Dr Wim Blancke
 * Joint honorary secretaries - Dr Fiona Jewkes & Mr M O'Flaherty
 * Honorary treasurer - Dr Fionna Moore
 * Committee administrator - Carole Long

Guideline Development Group members

 * Dr Simon Brown - Chairman
 * Professor Matthew Cooke - Project Director
 * Dr Joanne Fisher - Senior Research Fellow
 * Stephen Hines - Paramedic Project Advisor
 * Prof Mike Smyth - Paramedic Project Advisor

The guideline development group relies upon the unpaid work of numerous clinicians to complete the systematic reviews to support the guidelines.

Guidelines

 * Version 1 - 2000
 * Version 2 - 2004
 * Version 3 - April 2006
 * Version 4 - April 2013