

System Engagement
Multi-agency and system wide engagement
PRANA works with organisations across healthcare, emergency services, research and government to improve understanding of serious illness and injury.
Recent collaborations with the Department for Transport, NHS England, Health Data Research Service, ambulance services and research partners have supported new approaches to securely linking information and using it to improve road safety and patient outcomes.
To date PRANA has engaged with the following significant national stakeholders:
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Pre-hospital patient and family forum
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NHS England, Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response
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Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care (FPHC) of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
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National Association of Ambulance Service Medical Directors (NASMeD) chair
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Association of ambulance service chief executives (AACE)
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National Ambulance Service Research Steering Group
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National Ambulance Service Clinical Quality Group
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Intercollegiate board for training in pre-hospital emergency medicine (IBTPHEM)
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Air Ambulances UK (AAUK)
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Health Data Research Service (HDRS)
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Health Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP)
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Department for Transport, Travel and Environment Data and Statistics (TRENDS) Division
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Department fot transport, Road Safety Investigation Branch
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Highways England
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Transport Research Laboratory
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NHS Digital Ambulance Dataset Project
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Paediatric intensive Care Audit and Research Network (PICANet)
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Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC)
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Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN)
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British Association of Immediate Care Schemes (BASICS)
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National clinical directors for trauma, emergency preparedness and emergency care
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NIHR Clinical Research Network, trauma and emergency care specialty group, deputy lead
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National HEMS research and audit forum (NHRAF)
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National HEMS medical director forum
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Northern Ireland Ambulance Service
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Scottish specialist transport and retrieval service (SCOTSTAR)
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Wales Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transport Service (EMRTS)
System wide engagement activity
PRANA stakeholder engagement activity has been running formally from 2019 and has involved colleagues from across the 4 nations.

On going system engagement
PRANA is a huge collaboration. Stakeholder engagement and involvement is a continuous multi-lateral process and is essential to enable the power encapsulated in linked data to be released to advocate for patients. The PRANA team welcome ideas and comments about the programme - you can make contact through the contact us link in the menu bar or email us at prana@uhs.nhs.uk.