Has anyone seen the Draft from the Uk emergency Air Response Working Group? This is just a small snip from the 80 page document. NPAS has been heavily involved in this, if you get to read the full draft it makes for a worrying read!! Looks like all Emergancy Air assets are in the planning stages to join in to one working group? Anything someone needs to tell us?
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1.1 UK Search and Rescue StrategicCommittee. The UK Search and Rescue (UK SAR) Strategic Committee is aninter-agency
national forum established in 2000,with responsibility for advising on the structure, scope and framework of theorganisation of UK SAR. The
primary objectives of the Committeeare to develop criteria for the coverage, responsiveness and availability of SARservices, to promote
effective and efficient co-operationbetween government departments, emergency services and voluntary agencies forthe effective provision of
national SAR services. The Committee‟sremit is to offer views to ministers on improving SAR capabilities and theeffectiveness and
co-operation of SAR providers. Themembership of the UKSAR Strategic Committee is confined to those departmentswith strategic and policy
responsibilities for search and rescueand to national organisations that contribute significantly to UK SAR.
1.2 UK Emergency Air ResponseWorking Group. The UK SAR Strategic Committee agreed to the formation of a „UKSAR HEMS
Working Group‟ in late 2011 in orderto examine the interaction between SAR and Helicopter Emergency MedicalServices (HEMS) aircraft.
However, it was soon recognised thatthe Group‟s work should be broadened to embrace other emergency air responseoperations. The Group
therefore adopted the title of the UKEmergency Air Response (EAR) Working Group in order to better describe itscomposition and functions.
The membership of this Group was drawnfrom organisations with responsibility for providing medical services, searchand rescue, fire and
rescue services, police aviation andaviation legal compliance matters, including the following:
Association of Air Ambulances (AAA)
Association of Ambulance ChiefExecutives
Associationof 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 RescueCoordination Centre – Co Chair
NHS Commissioners
NHS - Resilience & PreparednessImplementation
NationalPolice Air Service
Scottish Ambulance Service
Assistance has also kindly beenprovided by the Association of
Chief PoliceOfficers Scotland (SAR Portfolio)
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