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Ambulance Service

Role

The Ambulance Services support incident resolution by:

• ensuring the initial health needs of those people who become ill or injured whilst travelling on the network are met
• initiating and seamlessly delivering rapid assessment, response and where required, treatment of those individuals involved

Responsibilities

• save life together with the other emergency services
• accurately assess and triage calls received to incidents
• protect the health, safety and welfare of ambulance staff as far as is reasonably practicable
• provide triage, treatment, stabilisation and care of those injured at the scene
• treat those involved as individuals and respond to their needs as such
• arrange the most appropriate means of transporting those injured to the receiving and specialist hospitals (involving use of Helimed when required)
• provide a focal point at the incident for all National Health Service (NHS) and other medical resources
• where required, nominate and alert the receiving hospitals to receive those injured
• act as a portal into the wider health services including specialist health advice when required
• responsible for decontamination of casualties in a Hazmat or chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incident
• being mindful of the economic pressures surrounding protracted road closures