Meet the Directors of PACT and our Medical and Assistant Medical directors. Between the five of them they direct a vast amount of knowledge, skills and years of expert clinical care.
Matt Forrest
Managing Director and Senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Emergency Care
Clinical and Medicines Lead
Matt is currently an ACP working in a busy NHS Emergency Department. Graduating from the University of Worcester with a Foundation Degree. He left the ambulance service after completing the core modules of the BSc (Hons) Emergency Practitioner degree at Wolverhampton University. He was successful in being the first Paramedic Practitioner to work within two Birmingham Emergency Departments. Matt achieved a Masters of Science in Advanced Clinical Practice and completed a Non Medical Prescribing from Coventry University; furthermore obtaining a Post Graduate Certificate in Critical Care from Queen Mary University of London.
In his current Emergency Department, Matt is working in a novel Consultant Practitioner role. He is a credentialed Royal College of Emergency Medicine Advanced Clinical Practitioner and holds a specialist interest in Intensive Care Medicine.
He is an Advanced Life Support and Immediate Life Support instructor for the Resuscitation Council (UK), and an Advanced Paediatric Life Support Instructor for ALSG. He is also actively involved in the development of the Paramedic profession at a National level.
He sits on the College of Paramedics Special Interest Group for Medicines Management, and this group behind the successful attainment of Independent Prescribing for Paramedics working at the appropriate level throughout the UK.
He is also an expert author for some of the College of Paramedics e-learning for continued professional development.
If you need to talk to Matt then please email m.forrest@pactmedical.co.uk
Benjamin McWalter
Managing Director and Senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Emergency Care
Consultant HCPC Paramedic
Governance Director
Ben is currently an ACP working in a busy Emergency Department within the NHS. He has a breadth of experience both in the pre-hospital environment and in the A&E setting. He is also an independent and supplementary prescriber and has a specialist interest in Cardiology.
Ben started his career as a Paramedic responding to 999 calls. Graduating initially from Coventry University with a Foundation Degree in Paramedic Science, then the University of Wolverhampton with a First Class Batchelor of Science with Honours, and finally a Master of Science degree with Distinction in Advanced Clinical Practice from Staffordshire University.
He developed a Specialist Paramedic model for a local NHS ambulance service; all the way from writing the business model through to developing the governance and additional pathways required to avoid A&E. He proved that a substantial amount of the treatments provided by practitioners in the Emergency Department could be provided in the community.
This pilot scheme ran for a year before he joined his first Emergency Department as an ACP.
He is an Advanced Life Support, European Paediatric Advanced Life Support and Immediate Life Support instructor for the Resuscitation Council (UK). Ben is also actively involved in the development of the Paramedic profession at a National level.
He sits on the College of Paramedics Special Interest Group for Medicines Management, and this group behind the successful attainment of Independent Prescribing for Paramedics working at the appropriate level throughout the UK.
He is also an expert author for some of the College of Paramedics e-learning for continued professional development.
More recently, Ben has been appointed as a Member of NHS England Workstream 3 (Hospitals) Clinical Advisory Group. This group plays a clinical and strategic role in providing advice on Emergency and Urgent Care pathways.
The Specialist Paramedic model provided a lot of the insight required to give this business venture direction, and it became clear that with the right Directors, PACT can take models like this forward to provide the care that patients deserve.
Bens email is b.mcwalter@pactmedical.co.uk
Matthew Taylor
Managing Director
Operations Director
Matt is a Managing Director for PACT and the Logistics Lead for the company.
He started his career young at the age of 16 when he joined the military, spending time in theatre on operations abroad until he was 22. Matt then literally ran away and joined the circus! He was a tumbler, able to perform some interesting stunts with fire that would now make him and his medical colleagues a little nervous. At age 30 he went back to college and then university to start his journey in Emergency Care.
Matt is a highly resourceful individual with extensive experience in dealing with medical emergencies and providing professional patient-focused care, before changing direction again! Having previously worked as a Paramedic and working frontline within an NHS ambulance service, he then extended his role to an Emergency Care Practitioner, becoming a specialist in minor injuries and minor illness.
Matt has now taken a step back from clinical duties, and turned towards operations and logistics. Although no longer patient-facing, Matt provides vital logistical oversight and operational management.
Matt’s email is m.taylor@pactmedical.co.uk
Miss Ruchi Joshi
Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Medical Director
Miss Joshi is currently an Emergency Medicine Consultant and holds a Fellowship of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. She is deputy divisional director of medicine in her full-time role within the NHS.
Miss Joshi has an interest in paediatric emergency medicine as her sub-emergency medicine interest.
Miss Joshi has worked closely with the managing directors of PACT through previous projects for hospital avoidance, and has a large input in all clinical governance decisions made within the company.
Miss Joshi has a breadth of experience in emergency care and is very clinically focused on best patient care.
She is an instructor, course and medical director in Advanced Life Support, Immediate Life Support, European Paediatric Life Support for the Resuscitation Council (UK), and an instructor for Advanced Paediatric Life Support and Advanced Trauma Life Support.
She has experience in pre-hospital and community based care, with a specific passion for hospital avoidance which fuels her enjoyment of event medicine.
Dr Rinesh Parmar
Anaesthetics Consultant / PHEM Doctor
Deputy Medical Director
Rinesh is an Anaesthetics Consultant in a busy NHS hospital, with a Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine sub-speciality. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and is on the GMC Specialist Register for Anaesthetics. He is an active member and clinical lead in West Midlands CARE Team. PACT are proud to have Rinesh as our anaesthetics advisor and deputy medical director.
Rinesh has a plethora of pre-hospital experience with event medicine and pre-hospital trauma.
Having worked with the managing directors for years and having a keen focus on providing excellent care in event medicine, Rinesh is a great asset and plays a vital part in ensuring robust governance and invested clinical oversight.
Rinesh has a keen focus and supplementary post graduate awards in simulation for medical education. Rinesh is an instructor for Advanced Life Support, Immediate Life Support and European Paediatric Life Support for the Resuscitation Council (UK).
He has achieved the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care accredited by the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care within the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.