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Government calls for greater collaboration between emergency services
The paper lays out plans for a legal duty to collaborate between the ambulance, police and fire and rescue services, so that all three must consider collaboration wherever it would drive efficiency or effectiveness, expecting them to work together to deliver cost savings.
It also outlines plans for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to have greater powers to harness local partnerships built across their forces and ensure that the demand that the police and ambulance service place on each other is dealt with in the most effective manner.
The consultation said: “We want to see PCCs and NHS ambulance trusts working more closely together to ensure the demand the police and NHS ambulance services place on each other, on a day-to-day basis, is dealt with in the most effective and efficient manner.
“The government is also committed to continue to encourage joint working with the NHS ambulance service, whether on co-responding or the wider agenda to improve health outcomes.
“This will help the NHS ambulance services focus on its core role of delivering clinical NHS services. The government expects the NHS ambulance service to do more in helping people access the right care closer to home through greater collaboration with primary and community care so that people are only transported to A&E when their clinical condition requires it.”
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