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AMedP-1.8
National armed forces and the Medical Evaluation Teams that assess medical treatment facility modules against it
AMedP-1.8 is NATO's skills matrix, the list a Medical Evaluation Team draws on to assess personnel in each medical module under the STANAG 2560 evaluation framework.
AMedP-1.8, the NATO Allied Medical Publication carrying the skills matrix, is one of three publications that implement STANAG 2560, the agreement recording nations' commitment to a common way of evaluating NATO medical treatment facilities. AMedP-1.6 is the evaluation manual, AMedP-1.7 is the capability matrix, and AMedP-1.8 is the skills matrix: a module-by-module list of the skills a Medical Evaluation Team draws on when it examines a deployed or deployable medical capability. The current edition, Edition A Version 2, was promulgated on 28 May 2026 and supersedes Version 1, which nations are told to destroy under their own document-destruction procedure.
The document is explicit about its own role. It states that AMedP-1.8 "lists a set of skills from which the SMEs" - the subject-matter experts on a Medical Evaluation Team - "will select the appropriate skills necessary to comply with the assigned task for each medical module", and that the selected skills "should be used as template to develop supporting and additional questions in order to evaluate a module in depth". So the matrix supplies the material an evaluator builds questions from; it is not itself a syllabus, a competence framework a training provider works through item by item, or a checklist an inspector ticks off line by line. This page sets out what the publication is for and who uses it; it does not reproduce the matrix. AMedP-1.8 sets out skills by role and level, module by module, and an evaluator or a training provider needs the document itself for that detail.
The matrix runs to 46 modules, from command, control, communication, computers and information through hospital management, casualty evacuation and staging, primary healthcare, a run of clinical specialisms, diagnostic and laboratory support, medical supply functions, and administrative modules including mortuary and outbreak investigation. Each module's entry is organised the same way: a set of capabilities, and the skill set behind each one. None of that detail belongs on a page like this; the point of the structure is that a Medical Evaluation Team, and whoever prepares personnel for its visit, work from the same 46-module reference.
AMedP-1.8 addresses national armed forces and the Medical Evaluation Teams, made up of subject-matter experts, that assess a medical module against it. It is not addressed directly to a civilian contractor, though a nation that contracts a private training or medical provider to staff or deliver a Role-level capability passes the same expectation down through that contract. It binds the way a Standardization Agreement binds: nations agree to use it, that agreement is recorded in STANAG 2560, and a nation can ratify with reservations. The document's own Record of Specific Reservations shows this in practice - several nations record that they will use it only up to a stated Role level, or exclude particular capabilities such as CBRN response, from the scope they evaluate.
The document points outward twice. Module personnel should, where applicable, be able to respond to major incident or mass-casualty contingencies as covered in STANAG 2879 and AMedP-1.10; and one dental skill item separately invokes STANAG 2464 for forensic dental identification procedure. Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) skills across the matrix are scoped explicitly: the document states they apply "only applicable when required according to the mission related assessed CBRN risks", not as a standing requirement carried by every module regardless of the mission.
Nothing in AMedP-1.8 establishes a certification scheme, and no accredited body certifies anything under it. Assessment is a Medical Evaluation Team examining an organisational capability - a medical module, at a given Role level - using skills drawn from this matrix to frame its questions. The personnel involved hold competence; the module is what gets assessed against a Role level, and neither is a certificate an organisation could hold. What an evaluator actually checks for, and how the process runs, sits in the companion evaluation manual, AMedP-1.6, and the capability matrix, AMedP-1.7.
Evidencing readiness for this kind of evaluation is a matter of records, not a piece of clinical software: who has been trained and assessed against which module's skill set, what Role level a unit is declared at, which national reservations narrow that, and what an evaluator was shown at the last assessment. ComplyTrain gives a unit or a training provider a controlled place to hold that trail - training records tied to named personnel and modules, version-controlled SOPs a module works to, and a documented history to prepare against a Medical Evaluation Team visit.
It does not deliver medical or clinical training, assess or certify anyone's clinical competence, or stand in for the Medical Evaluation Team's own evaluation. The Role level a unit is assessed at, and the skills that go with it, are set by the nation and the mission, not by a compliance tool. See what sits alongside AMedP-1.8 in the standards explorer, and talk to us about the record-keeping side of getting ready for an evaluation.
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Only through ratification. It binds a nation because that nation's agreement to use it is recorded in STANAG 2560, and a nation can ratify with reservations that narrow which Role levels or capabilities it applies to in practice. There is no general answer to whether it applies to a given unit or provider; that depends on the nation's own ratification and the mission or contract in question.
All three sit under STANAG 2560 and cover the evaluation of NATO medical treatment facilities. AMedP-1.6 is the evaluation manual, setting out the process a Medical Evaluation Team follows. AMedP-1.7 is the capability matrix, covering what a module needs to hold. AMedP-1.8 is the skills matrix, covering what its personnel need to be able to do.
No. The document names no certification scheme, and assessment runs through a multinational Medical Evaluation Team examining a module's capability against a Role level, not an accredited body certifying an individual or an organisation.
No. The document states that CBRN-related skills are applicable only when the mission's assessed CBRN risk requires them, not as a standing requirement across every medical module.
Edition A, Version 2, promulgated 28 May 2026. It supersedes Edition A, Version 1, which nations were instructed to destroy.
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