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Coordination of Major Accident Services within a British Health Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Andrew K. Marsden  and
Michael I. Willis
Andrew K. Marsden
Affiliation:
Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Michael I. Willis
Affiliation:
West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service, Berkenshaw, Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
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The arrangements for dealing with Major Accidents in the United Kingdom are set out in the Health Circular (HC(77)1) which places the onus for planning on Health Districts—each district serving a population of no greater than 200,000. The Metropolitan Area of West Yorkshire, served by the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service, the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police and the West Yorkshire Fire Service, takes in nine such districts and covers an area of 794,000 square miles and a population of just over two million. West Yorkshire is traversed by two motorways and a major trunk road.

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Research Article
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 3 , Issue 1: Contributions from the Third World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Rome, Italy, May, 1983 , 1987 , pp. 57 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1987

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