Welcome

Great to attend the NWAS Learning Celebration 2025.  Congratulations to library user Isaac on his BSc.  Well done. 

Attended the College of Paramedics Paramedic Education Network f2f Workshop Wednesday 21 May 2025 Staffordshire. Great event and learned so much. 

Co presented with Kobe Jong a webinar on NHS Repositories in the NHS, looking at lessons learned.  

Great to meet students from University of Cumbria from the new apprentice cohort.  Good luck on your course. 

Great to meet colleagues at that Bolton Stadium for our summer F2F Steering Group.  Remember 1958!

ICLC Conference

Delivered a virtual presentation to the International Clinical Librarians Conference (ICLC) in Leicester entitled Building the grey literature base layer: developing a Collection Development Strategy for the NHS ambulance service research repository, amber.

Attended an excellent Educators Conference in Nottingham, hosted by EMAS.  Really informative speakers on Imposter Syndrome, Neurodiversity and giving Feedback on performance.  Thank you.    

Attended the College of Paramedics Research Conference in Birmingham.  Fantastic Event with great speakers.  Lovely to meet research colleagues. 

Thank you to Pete Eaton-Williams and the Research Team from SECAmb for acknowledging the LKS ASE contribution to their latest article,

Peter Eaton-Williams, Alice Scholfield, Silas Vince, and Craig Mortimer (2025) Integrated unscheduled care navigation hub models in ambulance services: a narrative review. International Journal for Advancing Practice 2025 3:3, 136-141 (Open Access). 

amber has been acknowledged as a source in recent systematic review ...

Imogen M Gunson, Chloé Barley, Andy Rosser, Laurna Bullock, Adam Lee Gordon, Tom Kingstone, Milica Bucknall, Ambulance responses to older adults who have fallen: a systematic review, Age and Ageing, Volume 54, Issue 8, August 2025, afaf228, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afaf228

Visited the amazing facilities at the Education Centre at NEAS.  

Dutton, M., Holland, M., & Glover, S.,  2025. The role of grey literature (GL) in paramedic citation behaviour in three leading paramedic journals. [Poster], 999EMS Research Forum Annual Conference 2025, Newcastle Upon Tyne.  Available from  10.13140/RG.2.2.12714.07365

Congratulations to Eleanor Jayne Syddall form Leeds Teaching Hospitals for winning the Best Rapid Elevator prize sponsored by LKS ASE for her presentation on 'Reducing inter-hospital transfers for the frail elderly; a joint Emergency Department–Ambulance Service project' 

Great to meet the new cohort of students attending the University of Cumbria Paramedic Course.  

LKS ASE's poster presentation at 999EMS Research Forum Annual Conference 2025 together with colleagues from NWAS was recognised in The Bulletin.  

Presented the Guideline for adding Grey Literature (GL) to NHS Repositories. Version 1.0 at the NHS Repositories Community of Practice.