Louise Whittaker

Advanced Paramedic Mental Health

Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Louise is an advanced clinical practitioner with 25 years of experience in the UK ambulance service as well as primary and urgent care. She is a non-medical prescriber and fellow of the Leadership Academy.

Like many of us she has had experience of mental ill health amongst her family and friends, and the impact of suicide has been profound, amongst friends and colleagues. She has also worked with people with dementia throughout her career but particularly as an urgent care practitioner. All of these factors made the role of advanced paramedic mental health irresistible, a real challenge to deliver and an area of interest for anyone who wants to provide better care for an often marginalised and stigmatised group of patients.

Louise has also worked in the social enterprise sector as part of a pilot provider for urgent community response and using digital solutions for virtual wards and out of hours GP provision. She is a Council Representative for the College of Paramedics and is part of the National Ambulance Mental Health Group.