TY - JOUR T1 - Medical and prehospital care training in UK fire and rescue services JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 960 LP - 961 DO - 10.1136/emj.2009.081828 VL - 27 IS - 12 AU - Alison Walker AU - Brian Robson Y1 - 2010/12/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/27/12/960.2.abstract N2 - We were interested to see the paper by Quinn et al1 in this month's EMJ.We undertook a similar survey published in the EMJ in 2005 on the Fire Service management of burns,2 which concentrated on burns but also reviewed general levels of clinical training and skills within the Fire and Rescue Services (FRS), also with a response rate of over 70%. At the time 44/62 services had trained all their firefighters in the delivery of supplementary oxygen (71%), and it seems in some areas there is little … ER -