Dr Graham McClelland

My research interests include prehospital and emergency care of stroke as well as prehospital care of other time critical conditions. More broadly I am interested in anything involving paramedics or ambulance services.

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• ABSTRACT NUMBER: ESOC2026OT17 PREHOSPITAL BIOMARKER AND PHONE CALL-BASED DETECTION FOR ISCHAEMIC STROKE THROMBECTOMY (PRONTO): WORK IN PROGRESS, Shaw, L., Binks, R., Brunskill, G., Burgess, D., Gaude, E., McClelland, G., Suklan, J., White, P., Price, C. 6 May 2026, In: European Stroke Journal
• A randomised, exploratory study comparing a single episode of feedback with regular feedback and no feedback on ambulance clinician bag-valve-mask ventilation during a simulated cardiac arrest over a six-month time frame, McClelland, G., Charlton, K., Kirk, B., Blair, L., Hepburn, S., Finney, O., Snowdon, K. 1 Mar 2026, In: British Paramedic Journal
• Diagnostic Accuracy of Lateral Flow Blood Tests to Detect Large Vessel Occlusion Stroke, Shaw, L., Binks, R., Burgess, D., Dixit, A., Gaude, E., Lendrem, C., McClelland, G., White, P., Zhu, G., Price, C. May 2026, In: Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology
• Impact of demographic and deprivation factors on paramedic-led pain management: a UK NHS service evaluation, Thomas, A., McClelland, G. 1 Mar 2026, In: British Paramedic Journal
• Mapping pre-hospital research presented at UK conferences between 2010 and 2023: a bibliometric study, McClelland, G., Haworth, D., Charlton, K., Thompson, L., Finch, T., Williams, J. 1 Mar 2026, In: British Paramedic Journal
• Specialist PrE-hospital rEDirection for ischaemic stroke thrombectomY (SPEEDY): study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial with included health economic and process evaluations, Shaw, L., Allen, M., Day, J., Ford, G., James, M., McClelland, G., McMeekin, P., Mossop, H., Pope, C., Simmonds, R., White, P., Wilson, N., Price, C. 13 Jan 2026, In: BMJ Open
• Cable ties as a method of suicide, Shaw, G., Thompson, L., McClelland, G. 1 Sep 2025, In: British Paramedic Journal
• Co-design of a Mobile Stroke Unit pathway highlights uncertainties and trade-offs for viable system-wide implementation in the English and Welsh NHS, Moseley, L., McMeekin, P., Allen, M., Ford, G., James, M., Laws, A., McCarthy, S., McClelland, G., Park, L., Pearn, K., Phillips, D., Price, C., Shaw, L., White, P., Wilson, D., Scott, J. 1 Dec 2025, In: BMC Emergency Medicine
• Exploratory study comparing a single episode of feedback with regular feedback and no feedback on BVM ventilation during a simulated cardiac arrest over a six-month time frame: a research protocol, McClelland, G., Finney, O., Charlton, K., Kirk, B., Blair, L., Hepburn, S. 1 Sep 2025, In: British Paramedic Journal
• Hanging cases attended by North East Ambulance Service, 2020‐2024: a service evaluation, Shaw, G., Thompson, L., McClelland, G. 1 Dec 2025, In: British Paramedic Journal

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• Police involvement in interagency crisis mental health first response pathways in England: A realist and cost consequence analysis (PIONEER-MH), Clibbens, N. (Principal Investigator), McClelland, G. (Co Investigator), National Institute for Health Research, 01/04/25 - 30/11/27, £781,508.00

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• Oral presentation: Development and evaluation of training aimed at reducing ambulance on-scene times with suspected stroke patients in an English regional ambulance service 2023
• Editorial work: British Paramedic Journal (Journal) 2020

• Health PhD January 17 2019
• Health MRes