Community First Responders' Role in the Current and Future Rural Health and Care Workforce

The investigators will purposively sample patients, relatives, and ambulance staff identified from records of patients who have been attended by a CFR in a rural location in the previous six months. Where possible the investigators will interview patients, relatives, CFRs and ambulance staff attending the same event. GPs will be purposively sampled from rural areas of the ambulance services involved. Investigators will recruit a maximum variation sample of patients (according to age, sex, condition, and ethnicity), ambulance staff (sex, experience, ethnicity and role), CFR (sex, ethnicity, length of experience, skill level) and CFR scheme leads (independent charity and ambulance trust overseen schemes).