M1 - The Role of the Ambulance Service

1. To save life along with all the other emeregncy services


2. To provide treatment, stabilisation and care of those injured at the scene


3. To provide appropriate transport, medical staff, eqipment and resocurses


4. To establish effective traige points and systems and determine the priority evacuation needs of those injured


5. To provide focal point at the incident for all National Health Service and other medical resources


6. 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;


7. To nominate and alert the reciving hospitals from the officail list of hospitals to recive those injured.


8. To provide transport to the incident scene for the medical incident officer (MIO), mobile medical/surgical teams and their equipment.


9. To arragnge the most appropriate means of transporting those injured to the reciving specialist hospitals.


10. To maintain emergency cover throughout the area and return to a state of normality after the earliest time.