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The London Ambulance Service NHS Trust (LAS) is an NHS trust responsible for operating ambulances and answering and responding to urgent and emergency medical situations within the London region of England. The service responds to 999 phone calls across the region, and 111 phone calls from certain parts, providing triage and advice to enable an ...
London's Air Ambulance Charity is a registered charity that operates a helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) dedicated to responding to serious trauma emergencies in and around London. [4] Using a helicopter from 08:00 to sunset and rapid response vehicles by night, the service performs advanced medical interventions at the scene of the ...
On 26 October 1992 the London Ambulance Service started to use a new computer-assisted dispatch (CAD) system, known as LASCAD. [1] Poorly designed and implemented, its introduction led to significant delays in the assigning of ambulances - before the system eventually crashed, [2] [3] with anecdotal reports of 11-hour waits.
In November 2018 NHS Digital launched the National Record Locator Service which gives ambulance staff access to patient records of mental health trusts, initially for the North West, North East, Yorkshire and London Ambulance Services. It is planned to roll it out across England and to include other records.
The first episode reveals the dilemmas faced by the London Ambulance Service as they are forced to bump patients down the queue so they can prioritise the sickest, deal with time wasters and cope with the ever-present threat that a major incident is just a 999 call away. Closing Song: I'm Getting Ready by Michael Kiwanuka
Tom Reynolds is the pseudonym of Brian Kellett, a nurse and once emergency medical technician for the London Ambulance Service, England, whose award-winning blog, Random Acts of Reality, [1] [2] has been published in two memoirs, Blood, Sweat & Tea in 2006 and More Blood, More Sweat & Another Cup of Tea in 2009.
Technicians within the ambulance services have historically completed the Institute of Healthcare Development (IHCD) ambulance aid award (awarded by Edexcel, part of Pearson) which was a course lasting around six weeks in the classroom [27] A three-week emergency driving programme was available alongside the Ambulance Aid qualification. This ...
A Ford E-Series ambulance with its emergency lights on in Boston An NHS ambulance in south-west London. An ambulance is a medically-equipped vehicle used to transport patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals. [1] Typically, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient during the transport.