Grant de Jongh
Chief Executive Officer & Council Member
Grant is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Health Practice Associates Council (HPAC).
He qualified as an IHCD Ambulance Technician in 2008, has held leadership roles in local government,
serving as Vice Chairman of his local council and Deputy Mayor of his town.
After working on frontline ambulances he progressed in his career to Staff Officer for the director of Clinical Operations at South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb). After a sebatical he returned as a consultant for SECAmb, where he managed the team that introduced the first
NHS framework to govern the standards and use of private-sector resources in frontline ambulance services.
He also supported other NHS Ambulance Services in adopting similar frameworks and initiated a strategic
group to improve national standards.
Grant’s motivation to establish HPAC arose from the largely avoidable death of his brother in a
pre-hospital emergency incident. He is committed to enhancing patient safety, supporting the improvement
of professional standards for non-statutory pre-hospital emergency responder grades, and ensuring
accountability through regulation, as implemented in countries such as Ireland, the USA, and South Africa.
Grant has also overseen national projects for the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) in Ireland
and continues to collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to advance regulatory standards in pre-hospital care.