📋About
Full membership benefits (24-hour legal helpline, fitness to practise representation, £5m medical malpractice insurance); CPD Hub (500+ videos); national and regional CPD events; Research Centre (grants programme, annual research conference); e-learning partnership with NHS England (eLearning for Healthcare); Diploma in Primary and Urgent Care; Post Registration Career Framework; Digital Career Framework; policy and advocacy before government and NHS; Paramedic INSIGHT magazine; student and newly qualified paramedic support; international paramedics day
Custom geography from upload: UK
📊Key Metrics
20,000+ paramedic members across the UK — the professional body for the paramedic profession
Key Metric 1
500+ CPD videos on member Hub; national CPD events programme; Paramedic INSIGHT quarterly magazine; monthly digital newsletter
Key Metric 2
Successfully campaigned for change in legislation to allow prescribing of controlled drugs by paramedic independent prescribers — now out for consultation
Key Metric 3
✅Key Outcomes
- Legislation change secured: controlled drug prescribing by paramedic independent prescribers now moving to consultation — a landmark win for the profession after sustained College advocacy
- NQP employment crisis response (2025): College convened stakeholder webinar and engaged government, employers and NHS on shortage of available roles for newly qualified paramedics — securing coordinated sector response
- 2025 rebranding to Royal College of Paramedics reflects growing recognition of the profession's clinical status and parity with other allied health professions