Physician Response Unit
Davies has been responsible for many innovations in pre-hospital care such as the Physician Response Unit (PRU), which brings the doctor to the patient in their home, preventing an unnecessary waste of ambulance resources. The PRU also operates from the Royal London Hospital in a rapid response car.
The PRU is staffed by a doctor and an Emergency Care Practitioner (ECP). Compared to just sending out an ECP in a car or an ambulance crewed by a paramedic and an emergency medical technician, a higher level of diagnostics and treatment can be initiated on-scene, giving the optimal outcome for the patient, and saving expensive procedures that could otherwise have been initiated.
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