Role of The Ambulance Services
Public ambulance services across the UK are required by law to respond to four types of requests for care, which are:
- Emergency calls (via the 999 or 112 system)
- Doctor's urgent admission requests
- High dependency and urgent inter-hospital transfers
- Major incidents
Ambulance trusts and services may also undertake non-urgent patient transport services on a commercial arrangement with their local hospital trusts or health boards, or in some cases on directly funded government contracts. This is an area where an increasing amount of private firms are taking business away from the trusts.
Emergency ambulance work in all NHS bodies and most voluntary and private firms is based on the guidance published by the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee (JRCALC).
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