© 2003 BMJ Publishing Group, British Association for Accident & Emergency Medicine, & Faculty of Accident & Emergency Medicine
EDITORIAL
Prehospital medicine
Prehospital emergency medicine: the series
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Mr J Wardrope;
jimwardrope@hotmail.com
Introducing a new series
Keywords: prehospital medicine
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Prehospital emergency care is changing at a breathtaking pace. The supply of doctors able to provide assessment and treatment out of hours is not keeping pace with increasing demands for emergency care. The result is over stretched out of hours primary care, ambulance services, and A&E departments. In response, the NHS wants to increase the scope of practice of doctors, nurses, and paramedics to help provide a first class service to patients who need clinical advice and assessment in the evenings, nights, and weekends. As a result new roles are being established in primary care nurse practitioners and paramedic practitioners. However, the education, curriculums, and standards vary from place to place and there is a lack ofeducational material to assist those undertaking these new roles.
To help fill this intellectual gap, the EMJ is planning a new series on the initial assessment and treatment of common illnesses that
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