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Emergency Medical Retrieval & Transfer Service (EMRTS)

Population Size

Not reported
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Years

2015

Years statistic card

Associated BioSamples

None/not available

Associated BioSamples statistic card

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Wales

Geographic coverage statistic card

Lead time

2-6 months

Lead time statistic card

Summary

This is the dataset for the The Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service (EMRTS) Cymru. Which is a pre-hospital critical care service in Wales.

Documentation

This is the dataset for the The Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service (EMRTS) Cymru. Which is a pre-hospital critical care service in Wales.

The Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service (EMRTS) Cymru is a service for Wales that provides Consultant and Critical Care Practitioner-delivered pre-hospital critical care across Wales. It was launched on the 27 April 2015 and is a partnership between Welsh Air Ambulance Charitable Trust, Welsh Government and NHS Wales.

The service was commissioned ‘to provide advanced decision making and critical care for life or limb threatening emergencies that require transfer for time critical specialist treatment at an appropriate facility.’

EMRTS Cymru is a clinically led service, commissioned by the Emergency Ambulance Services Committee, and is hosted by Swansea Bay University Health Board.

EMRTS Cymru has been developed to bring specific benefits to Wales, specifically:

Reductions in geographical inequity for patients with critical care needs.

Health gains by improving clinical outcomes.

Improved clinical and skills sustainability – improving the clinical skills, recruitment, and retention in key acute care areas.

There is also a service provision for the enhancement of neonatal and maternal pre-hospital critical care (both for home deliveries and deliveries in free-standing midwifery-led units).

The service provides a highly trained critical care team comprising consultants (from an emergency medicine, anaesthesia, and intensive care background) and critical care practitioners (who are advanced-trained former paramedics and nurses). The service has two main areas of activity:

Pre-hospital critical care for all age groups (i.e., interventions/decisions that are outside standard paramedic practice).

Undertaking time-critical, life or limb-threatening adult and paediatric transfers from peripheral centres for patients requiring specialist intervention at the receiving hospital.

Dataset type

Health and disease

Dataset sub-type

Not applicable

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node

Disambiguating Description

Measured Value

Measured Property

Observation Date

Events

3000000

Count

31 Aug 2021

Provenance

Source of data extraction

Electronic survey

Collection source setting

Primary care - Clinic, Secondary care - Accident and Emergency, Home

Patient pathway description

All emergency services pathways

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency

Daily

Version

1.0.0

Modified

08/10/2024

Citation Requirements

Welsh Government, Welsh Air Ambulance Service, NHS Wales.

Coverage

Start date

26/04/2015

Time lag

1-2 months

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom, Wales

Maximum age range

150

Follow-up

Other

Accessibility

Language

en

Controlled vocabulary

LOCAL

Format

SQL database table

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Available

Time to dataset access

2-6 months

Access request cost

Data provision is free from SAIL. Overall project costing depends on the number of people that require access to the SAIL Gateway, the activities that SAIL needs to complete (e.g. loading non-standard datasets), data refreshes, analytical work required, disclosure control process, and special case technological requirements.

Access service description

The SAIL Databank is powered by the UK Secure e-Research Platform (UKSeRP). Following approval through safeguard processes, access to project-specific data within the secure environment is permitted using two-factor authentication.

Jurisdiction

GB

Data use limitation

General research use,Research-specific restrictions

Data use requirements

Project-specific restrictions

Data Controller

Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust

Data Processor

Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust

Dataset Types: Health and disease


Collection Sources: Primary care - Clinic, Secondary care - Accident and Emergency, Home

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