• driving and staffing ambulances and other emergency vehicles
• responding to emergency 999 calls
• assessing patients, providing emergency treatment and making diagnoses
• monitoring and administering medication, pain relief and intravenous infusions
• dressing wounds/injuries
• using specialist equipment including ventilators and defibrillators
• reading ECG
• transporting patients to hospital and continuing to provide treatment while in transit
• providing hospital staff with patient information including condition and treatment
• helping provide patient care in hospitals and other medical facilities
• communicating effectively with patients and their relatives/friends
• teaching and training members of the public to use first aid techniques correctly
