- To save life along with all the other emeregncy services
- To provide treatment, stabilisation and care of those injured at the scene
- To provide appropriate transport, medical staff, eqipment and resocurses
- To establish effective traige points and systems and determine the priority evacuation needs of those injured
- To provide focal point at the incident for all National Health Service and other medical resources
- To provide communication facilities for NHS resoucres at the scene, with direct radio links to recive those injured to hospital, control facilites and any other agencey as required;
- To nominate and alert the reciving hospitals from the officail list of hospitals to recive those injured.
- To provide transport to the incident scene for the medical incident officer (MIO), mobile medical/surgical teams and their equipment.
- To arragnge the most appropriate means of transporting those injured to the reciving specialist hospitals.
- To maintain emergency cover throughout the area and return to a state of normality after the earliest time.
This blog is for my Coursework on Unit: 15 responding to Emergency Service Incidents. Aaron Spetch
Monday, 23 May 2011
M1 - The Role of the Ambulance Service
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