JOINT RESPONSE UNIT: IMPROVING PATIENT CARE AND SAFETY THROUGH COLLABORATIVE WORKING BETWEEN AMBULANCE AND POLICE SERVICES

Background

The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust receives more than one million calls every year, with roughly 10% of these coming from the Metropolitan Police Service. The majority of calls from the police are for patients with non-life-threatening symptoms, to which a clinical response is aimed to be dispatched within 30 minutes. When demand is high, however, ambulances get re-directed to more severely ill patients and police officers end up waiting on-scene for prolonged pe…
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