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Ambulance services. Digital dawn.

Jeremy Davies
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Mersey Regional and Hereford and Worcester ambulance trusts are the only two in the country to have installed digital radio systems. Hereford and Worcester can now locate any of its 42 ambulances in real time, leading to dramatic reductions in response times. The system also allows for the transmission of clinical data while a casualty is in transit, supporting the development of paramedics' medical skills. The national rollout of digital radio has been repeatedly postponed; the current dealine for full intergration in England is 2007.

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Jeremy Davies. 2005-09-08. Ambulance services. Digital dawn.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16171134/

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