Whilst there are undoubtedly times when the additional skills of a doctor are needed on scene, the aim should still be to use those skills to get the patient away to hospital as quickly as possible. Unfortunately it seems that this is not always the case, with patients being worked on for a considerable length of time when they are less than ten minutes away from a hospital.
It seems from their publicity that the Kent/Surrey/Sussex charity consider that the Golden Hour is the time to get the doctor to the patient, not the patient to the hospital!
Last edited by Bearintheair; 10th September 2007 at 11:15.