Sentences with phrase «of ambulance services»

Some state and territory governments cover the cost of ambulance services for some or all residents, without the need for private health insurance.

«Some of these referrals end up with complications to the mother and the baby and sometimes death of the newborn baby due to factors such as delay in transporting the patients to receiving points due to lack of ambulance service in district,» Mr Sackey said.

The merger with American Medical Response (AMR), the largest U.S. provider of ambulance services, would allow KKR's Air Medical Group to easily substitute costly helicopter flights with ambulances for shorter trips.

However, responding to 999 calls makes up only 10 % of the total number of ambulance service journeys, they are also involved in non emergency work through the patient transport service.

On 1 July 2006, significant changes were made to the organisation of the ambulance service.

The patient transport service (PTS) branch of the ambulance service provides transport for a wide range of patients including: out patients; disablement service centre patients; routine discharges and admissions; geriatric and psycho geriatric day care; non-urgent inter-hospital transfers; those unable to attend hospital by any other means.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the East of England ambulance service has received # 3.6 million of extra support this winter and defended the record of ambulance services nationwide.

Sheila Bird and her colleagues noted that when journey times were use to evaluate the performance of ambulance services in the Great Britain, the services made perverse changes to the start time to improve their performance on the indicators.

Defended a major metropolitan municipality against monopolization and related antitrust claims in connection with award of ambulance services contracts to private contractors.

Giles Colin has a wide ranging practice, but is best known for his work in the fields of clinical negligence, discipline and regulation, personal injury and inquests (principally in healthcare matters appearing regularly on behalf of the Ambulance Service, PCT and Hospital Trusts, as well as representing the interests of doctors).

• Well - versed in minimizing distress and suffering by providing first aid and CPR prior to arrival of ambulance services.

Such a platform saves the system in the longrun, he says, driving down hospital readmissions, the cost of ambulance services, and other expenses.

But flying a specialist to a patient may also eliminate some costs of nursing care, monitoring equipment, and the costs of ambulance services to one or more hospitals, as well as potentially fewer days of hospitalization and rehabilitation for stroke patients, he says.

Moore hopes the study sparks dialogue about the cost of ambulance service.