With regards to the EMT-I and EMT-P these are US qualifications and are taught to the US DOT standards, and are administered by the NREMT in the US. The courses tend to be administered by commercial companies, not just Dept of Health of Universities. Trouble with getting UK Paramedic qualifications as opposed to US is that if you want to get a job with a US company wanting say a EMT-P- aside from small differences in syllabus etc- you face getting your qualification recognised in the US, which can be a real uphill struggle. Also the situation works as badly from US to UK.

I'm qualified under the NREMT EMT-P standards- not licensed to practice in the US at present, as I'm not living there- and was told by the HPC that I would need to retrain from scratch to work in the NHS as a paramedic- after several years of study and use in the field I decided not to bother.