Has anyone hered of the proposed Emergency Air Responce working group? This is just a snip of it
UK Search and Rescue Strategic Committee. The UK Search and Rescue (UK SAR) Strategic Committee is an inter-agency
national forum established in 2000, with responsibility for advising on the structure, scope and framework of the organisation of UK SAR. The
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primary objectives of the Committee are to develop criteria for the coverage, responsiveness and availability of SAR services, to promote
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effective and efficient co-operation between government departments, emergency services and voluntary agencies for the effective provision of national SAR services. The Committee‟s remit is to offer views to ministers on improving SAR capabilities and the effectiveness and
co-operation of SAR providers. The membership of the UKSAR Strategic Committee is confined to those departments with strategic and policyresponsibilities for search and rescue and to national organisations that contribute significantly to UK SAR.
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UK Emergency Air Response Working Group. The UK SAR Strategic Committee agreed to the formation of a „UK SAR HEMS
Working Group‟ in late 2011 in order to examine the interaction between SAR and Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) aircraft. However, it was soon recognised that the Group‟s work should be broadened to embrace other emergency air response operations. The Group therefore adopted the title of the UK Emergency Air Response (EAR) Working Group in order to better describe its composition and functions.
The membership of this Group was drawn from organisations with responsibility for providing medical services, search and rescue, fire and rescue services, police aviation and aviation legal compliance matters, including the following:
Association of Air Ambulances (AAA)
Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO)
British Association of Immediate Care (BASICS)
Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA)
Civil Aviation Authority
Department of Health (DH)
– Co Chair
Department for Transport (DfT)
HM Coastguard (HMCG)
Ministry of Defence – Air Rescue Coordination Centre – Co Chair
NHS Commissioners
NHS - Resilience & Preparedness Implementation
National Police Air Service
Scottish Ambulance Service
Assistance has also kindly been provided by the Association ofChief Police Officers Scotland (SAR Portfolio)