Lawrence joined the Ambulance Service in March 1980 commencing as an ambulance attendant out of the Naas Station. He moved to the Maynooth and Loughlinstown stations before commencing his career in training in the National Ambulance Training School in 1993. He moved back into operations as the In-service Training Instructor in the East in 1999. He completed the 1st Advanced Paramedic programme in 2007. A founding member of the PHECC’s Medical Advisory Group he was involved in the development of the first Clinical Practice Guidelines.
Lawrence completed a Professional Diploma in Teaching and Learning in UCD in 2015. He was the NAS lead working in conjunction with the NIU, HPSC and NVRL in developing procedures for the transportation patients of ebola virus disease. In 2018, NAS commenced a pilot programme in partnership with Beaumont Hospital to develop the Pathfinder Service. He was the NAS lead for Pathfinder until his retirement in 2019. He has continued to support and assist the National Ambulance Service during its expansion of the Pathfinder Programme to eight further partnerships throughout the country.
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