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The future of volunteer provided pre-hospital care in the UK
  1. David Rawlinson
  1. Correspondence to Dr David Rawlinson, Department of Anaesthetics, Morriston Hospital, CSS, Swansea SA6 6NL, UK; Dave{at}jetuk.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2012-202148

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    With the introduction of Medical Emergency Response Incident Teams (MERIT) in the UK, this poses a question, where will the existing volunteers fit in? As highlighted by a recent census carried out by the British Association of Immediate Care,1 there is a considerable commitment by volunteers across the UK. Mainly these are doctors, but there are also paramedics, nurses and military medics. Undoubtedly …

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    • Contributors This is the original work of David Rawlinson.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Funding None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.