Emergency care in general practice

doi:10.1136/bmj.310.6991.1409a

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Francis Richardson,
Peter Donnelly,
Caroline Lester

Senior registrar Accident and Emergency Department, Cardiff Royal Infirmary, Cardiff CF2 1SZ
Clinical senior lecturer Research officer Centre for Applied Public Health Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff CF4 4XN

EDITOR,—Andrew Dicker's assertion that “there is an urgent need for a nationwide reactive and effective emergency service, staffed by properly trained paramedics, to respond to medical emergencies at home” encouraged us to collate and analyse some relevant data that we have been collecting.1 We wrote to all chief ambulance officers in the United Kingdom seeking their views on tertiary …