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  2. Emergency medical personnel in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Whilst now deprecated by the NHS services, the qualification is still available as a BTEC level 4, and can be trained by the ambulance services or a number of private training providers up until Pearson stopped running the courses in 2016. [citation needed] The IHCD emergency driving programme was certificated as a 'stand-alone' qualification.

  3. East of England Ambulance Service - Wikipedia

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    The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) is an NHS trust responsible for providing National Health Service (NHS) ambulance services in the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, in the East of England region.

  4. Emergency care assistant - Wikipedia

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    There is a route for some ECAs to progress to Technician level. A training programme is run by the East of England Ambulance NHS Trust (EEAST) which aims to help ECAs progress to technician within 1 year of their basic training; by November 2015, most ECAs working for the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) have made the transition from ECA to Technician on this programme.

  5. Seattle & King County Emergency Medical Services System

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    Patient being loaded into a Seattle Medic One ambulance circa 1970 Seattle Paramedic Unit King County Paramedic Unit. In 1968, motivated by the work of Frank Pantridge, cardiologist Leonard Cobb proposed to the chief of the Seattle Fire Department, Gordon Vickery, training firefighters to treat cardiac arrest. The department was attractive to ...

  6. Emergency medical services - Wikipedia

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    Emergency medical services (EMS), also known as ambulance services, pre-hospital care or paramedic services, are emergency services that provide urgent pre-hospital treatment and stabilisation for serious illness and injuries and transport to definitive care. [1]

  7. Hazardous area response team - Wikipedia

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    HART forms part of the health response in support of the National Capabilities Programme being led by the Home Office, which aims to ensure that fewer lives would be risked or lost in the event of a terrorist-related attack or accidental CBRN incident [3] as part of the government and emergency services' "Model Response" plans.

  8. NHS Pathways - Wikipedia

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    The North East Ambulance Service, already using NHS Pathways, declared that it reduced such call outs by 2,000 per month. [11] Using an attached capacity management system (CMS) NHS Pathways can analyse the medical services local to each caller, and thus direct the patient to nearby minor injury units or doctor's surgeries depending on the ...

  9. Emergency medical services in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Air ambulance services in the United States can be operated by a variety of sources. Some services are hospital-operated, [18] while others may be operated by Federal, State or local government; or through a variety of departments, including local or State police, [19] the United States National Park Service, [20] or fire departments. [21]