About this event
A patient forum on the performance of the London Ambulance service on Zoom
Mark Docherty will chair the forum. He is the Executive Director of Nursing at the West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust and also leads on clinical commissioning for the Board of Directors.
He is an experienced commissioner having undertaken the role of Lead Commissioner in the West Midlands until 2012 when he was appointed to lead the commissioning of London Ambulance Service and in that role, he would often attend the LAS Patients’ Forum meeting.
Mark is an accomplished Clinician, Author, Publisher and Researcher, most recently being a Principal Investigator in the Paramedic 2 (Adrenalin in pre-hospital cardiac arrest) Trial (2017), which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (August 2018). He has co-authored a book on “Management of Emergency Ambulance Services”, and had an article published in The Lancet (May 2020) on people’s use of emergency ambulance services during wave one of the COVID pandemic. Mark regularly spends time working with ambulance staff in the out of hospital clinical environment.