Speakers

Mr Phil Cowburn MBE BSc(Hons) MBChB FRCS FRCEM DipIMC DipHEPRR DipMIM Phil is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine working in Bristol who has been active in prehospital care since 2004, being co-founder of Great Western Air Ambulance. He has held medical directorate roles within NHS Ambulance Trusts for over a decade and is Acute Care Medical Director for South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT), providing clinical leadership to support to major trauma, resuscitation, Hazardous Area Response Teams (HART) and Major Incident response. He was appointed as Medical Advisor to the National Ambulance Resilience Unit (NARU) in 2021, which transitioned this year to the NHSE Resilience Emergency Capabilities Unit (ECU). As Medical Director his focus is on clinical development of national interoperable assets. In addition, he provides clinical governance to police specialist units and Fire Rescue Services. He has provided expert evidence to a number of Public Inquiries and is national clinical lead for workstreams arising from the Manchester Arena Inquiry, including the Clinical Response to Major Incidents (CRMI) project. His areas of interest include clinical and command decision-making in high stress environments, and Major Incident management.