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Recognise the Ambulance Service as an Emergency Service

Submitted on Tuesday 27th August 2013

Published on Wednesday 28th August 2013

Current status: Closed

Closed: Thursday 28th August 2014

Signatures: 167

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Recognise the Ambulance Service as an Emergency Service

Additional Information

Officially recognise the NHS Ambulance Service as an "Emergency Service" and fund them properly so that they may become more effective.

Why is this important?

Did you know that the NHS Ambulance Service is NOT currently recognised by the Government as an "Emergency Service"?

The Ambulance Service is currently funded by the NHS. If the servive is unable to fulfill their "8-minute deadline" quota, they receive less funding.

This is a huge problem, why should Ambulance Services that are not performing to standard be penalised on funding? Surely, the NHS should fund them further to create a service that may perform better?

Why is it important? - If the Ambulance service is officially recognised as an "Emergency Service" the funding would come from central government rather than the NHS budget.

How would this affect you? - You would almost certainly get a better funded, better trained and better equipped ambulance service for yourself and your family.


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