Paramedic Expert Witness

Chief Consultant Paramedic & Assistant Clinical Director
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
April 2006 – Present Ambulance Headquarters

Mike Jackson has a wide experience of pre-hospital emergency care spanning over 35 years with an interest in the management of Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) and the management of major trauma. His clinical practice involves assessing and treating a wide spectrum of life threatening conditions such as heart attack, stroke, respiratory conditions and obstetric emergencies and managing serious traumatic injuries arising from RTCs, assaults, falls from height and industrial accidents.

Since his appointed in 2007 as a Consultant and Chief Paramedic with North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust he has undertaken a heavy clinical workload in all his areas of interest.

Fifty percent of his time is spent in clinical practice providing care and treatment to patients and advice to paramedics on the frontline and is responsible for the leadership and supervision of over 3000 pre-hospital clinicians including 160 Senior, Advanced and Consultant Paramedics. He works with the North West Air Ambulance Service as a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) Paramedic.

He is very experienced in operating in high pressured environments and is the lead pitch paramedic operating on match days at Liverpool Football Club. He is also a faculty member and instructor for the Football Association Advanced Resuscitation Emergency Aid Course (AREA).

He is the regional ambulance clinical lead for Major Trauma and was a member of the recent NICE Clinical Development Group for Trauma. He is also Chair of the National Ambulance Lead Paramedic Group and is an Honorary Lecture at Liverpool John Moores University.

As a consultant paramedic, assistant clinical director and clinical lecturer in pre-hospital care Mike has a vast experience in his specialist field and as such is appointed on many cases as an expert witness.

Examiner
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
January 2005 – Present Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Examiner for the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care

Lead Pitch Paramedic
Liverpool Football Club
2007 – Present Anfield Stadium

Lead Pitch Paramedic at Liverpool Football Club working alongside the Club Doctor, First Team Physio and Tunnel Doctor, providing ALS, and assisting with the on field management of MSK injuries including injuries to the head and neck. Responsible for the provision of analgesia for pain control and the extrication of the player from the field of play.

AREA Instructor
The Football Association
2010 – Present St Georges Park

Instructor and faculty member delivering the Advanced Resuscitation and Emergency Aid (AREA) course to Doctors, Physio’s and Sports Therapists who are working pitch side in the Premier League, Championship, League 1 or 2

Expert Witness
Paramedic Legal Services
2005 – Present Liverpool, United Kingdom

Actively involved in medico legal work for more than 15 years and with specific training and qualifications in the subject area including report writing, law and procedure and court room skills .

Paramedic
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
1980 – Present

HEMS Paramedic
North West Air Ambulance Charity
2009 – Present Barton Manchester

Chair
National Ambulance Lead Paramedic Group
2013 – Present AACE offices London

Specialist Advisor
Care Quality Commission
2014 – Present National

Trauma Clinical Guideline Development Group
National Institute of Clinical Excellence
2014 – 2015 (London, United Kingdom

Partner & Panel Member
The Health and Care Professions Council
2001 – 2014 London

Member of original CPSM Board. 2001-2003

Member of Fitness to Practice Committee 2003-2014

Member of the Investigating Committee 2003-2014

Executive Clinical Director
Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust
February 2003 – December 2006 (3 years 11 months) Ambulance HQ Liverpool

Director of Operational Services
Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust
January 2000 – January 2002 (2 years 1 month) Liverpool, United Kingdom

Head of Patient Transport Services
Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust
1998 – 2000 (2 years) Chester, United Kingdom

Communications & Emergency Planning Manager
Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust
1996 – 1998 (2 years) Ambulance HQ Liverpool

Head of Paramedic Training and Education
Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust
1994 – 1996 (2 years) Ambulance HQ Liverpool