Jim Ferguson

Clinical Lead

Mr James Ferguson was born and educated in Aberdeen at Robert Gordon's College and Aberdeen University graduating in Medicine in 1983. He holds the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in both General Surgery and Accident and Emergency Medicine. Emergency Medicine Registrar training was undertaken in Manchester and as a Senior Registrar in Aberdeen. He was appointed as Consultant in Emergency Medicine with a specialist interest in Paediatric Emergency Medicine in 1994, acting as Head of Service of the Emergency Department of the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital from 1994 - 2000. He was responsible for bringing the first Advanced Paediatric Life Support (APLS) course to Scotland in 1995.

The research interests of the Emergency Department in Aberdeen involved Telemedicine, Offshore Medicine and Prehospital Care. He was invited to become a Member of the Scottish Telemedicine Action Forum (STAF) in 1999, which developed Telemedicine activities in Scotland. He was appointed by the Scottish Executive as Clinical Lead of a £1.5 million project to establish a Telemedicine network for Emergency Care in the North of Scotland. He was part of the Unscheduled Care Group developing the National Framework for Service Change in the NHS in Scotland (Kerr Report). This report recommended the establishment of the Scottish Centre for Telehealth.

Other roles include Regional Advisor for Emergency Medicine training in the North of Scotland, Council Member of the College of Emergency Medicine, National Clinical Lead for Flow 1 of the Unscheduled Care Collaborative and Member of the Unscheduled Care Implementation Group of the recommendations of the Kerr Report. He has advisory roles to both the Scottish Ambulance Service and NHS24.

He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine with Aberdeen University. He has several publications in the field of Emergency Medicine, particularly Paediatric Emergency Medicine. In addition, he has won prizes for publications on Telemedicine.