Sir, – The recent internal memo from the National Ambulance Service withdrawing potential life-saving medicines used in cardiac arrests from frontline ambulances crewed by paramedics is regrettable.
It assumes that GPs and GP out-of-hours co-ops provide the range of drugs normally associated with an emergency service which GPs are not.
Perhaps the ambulance service could provide the information on which it based the decision regarding GP professional practices to us, and perhaps consult with us before decisions such as this are made? – Yours, etc,