Matthew has been a Nurse for over 20 years, starting his career in the NHS, working in Intensive and High Dependency Care before specialising in Resuscitation and Emergency Care and holds post registration qualifications in both disciplines. Matthew spent over 10 years working in the pre-hospital environment as a BASIC’s medic working alongside local ambulance service staff.

He is currently a Senior Advanced Care Practitioner in a collocated Urgent Treatment Centre , he is a none medical prescriber. He has had prior roles of Resuscitation Officer and the lead for Paediatric Resuscitation. He is an accredited Advanced Life Support and European Paediatric Life Support Instructor and Course Director for the Resuscitation Council (UK) and the European Resuscitation Council.

Matthew has directed and delivered face to face accredited training programs in India, China ,Oman and Nigeria. He has a special interest in the development and implementation of e-learning and blended learning solutions across multiple formats.

He is the co-editor of the Paediatric Emergency Care System. He has a special interest in the human factors involved in developing team leadership in resuscitation and emergency care.