EDITORIAL
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Correspondence to:
G Hughes, The Emergency Department, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide 5000, Australia; cchdhb@yahoo.com
Accepted 30 August 2007
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Several items relating to emergency medicine matters have been making the news headlines recently.
PREHOSPITAL TRANSPORT
Prehospital care and transport of patients to definitive care will become a matter of greater significance than it already is if proposed National Health Service reforms of emergency care proceed. There was high profile media coverage of the topic in August, following publication in this journal of a Sheffield study that shows, in certain circumstances, longer travel distances to hospital increase mortality and morbidity.1
The Health Service Journal (HSJ) reports that a charter for air ambulances, adopted by Great North Air Ambulance and the London, Essex and Hertfordshire, and Kent, Surrey and Sussex services, is fuelling debate over the future roles of air and land ambulances.2 Four independent air ambulance charities have signed up to a commitment to have "prehospital care doctors" on board, believing they help save lives and reduce the
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