Safety recommendation
It is recommended that the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives should work with partners to define best practice standards for the criteria, format, delivery and receipt of ambulance service pre-alerts.
Response:
The National Ambulance Medical Directors Group (NASMeD) have considered your report and recognises the importance that pre-alerts from ambulance service to hospitals can play in the delivery of care to patients.
The Ambulance Lead Paramedics Group (ALPG) have been asked by NASMeD to assess current practice across the 10 regional English Ambulance Services and to take forward your recommendation.
As you are aware, variation exists and for a variety of reasons. To better understand the complexities, ALPG will work with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and from this work, we hope that best practice guidance can be agreed.
NASMeD will look to support this work as necessary and if it is helpful we can update you in due course as to further progress.
Response received on 18 April 2019.