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An Emergency Care Assistant (ECA) is a type of NHS ambulance service worker in the United Kingdom, often used to support paramedics in responding to emergency calls.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Careers in the ambulance service: Emergency care assistant )〕 This frontline staff role was introduced in 2006 as part of the modernisation of NHS emergency ambulances and also to lower costs. By 2011 there were 2000 people working as ECAs in the United Kingdom. The role is evolving rapidly, and there is variation across the country, although usually the role involves assisting paramedics. ECAs commonly help to transfer patients and may use advanced driving skills. They may carry out basic diagnostic procedures under the direct supervision of a paramedic.〔 The College of Paramedics has said that it expects that ECAs will not be called upon to make complex clinical decisions. ==Problems with implementation== By 2007 there were a range of healthcare professionals who had expressed reservations about the plans to introduce large numbers of ECAs. Unions representing ambulance workers had fears that the workforce changes could lead to an increase in the risk to patients as well as adding to the workload of paramedics. Each regional ambulance service currently determine its own criteria around what is needed to become an ECA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Job profiles:Emergency care assistant )〕 They are amongst the lowest paid front line staff in the NHS, being paid at an AfC band 3.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National profiles for ambulance services )〕 Many ambulance services across the United Kingdom have now ceased to recruit further ECAs, and are now focusing on the reemerging role of the Ambulance Technician. Many NHS ambulance services are now offering the opportunity for Technicians to progress onto a Paramedic Science DipHE/FdSc programme. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Emergency care assistant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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