Clause 2
Health Bill
12:45 pm
Sandra Gidley (Romsey, Liberal Democrat)
The mention of the air ambulance service raises another, slightly unusual, question, because that service often makes use of the British Association for Immediate Care doctors. Those doctors do not have a contract with the air ambulances as such. They usually work in another part of the health system during the day and they provide the BASICS services as volunteers. It is not a service that is commissioned. BASICS doctors and paramedics provide services in a voluntary capacity, and so will not be covered by the responsibility of staff, because, in this context, they are not staff. I am sure that people would be very glad of the attention of a BASICS doctor, so this issue may not arise, but where does that voluntary area fit into the picture, because the service is not commissioned and the doctors are not staff?