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Concept involves effective and efficient streaming of patients direct to the appropriate clinical services

There is a lack of collective ambulance capacity and arrangements for call handling and dispatch

The long-awaited draft plan on future services at Midlands Regional Hospital, Portlaoise, will be informed by the views of local GPs and patients, as well as the three health services reports, all of which recommended enhancements to services at the hospital.

A high-level report has been ordered into the creation of an air ambulance for Northern Ireland or a cross-border service — and will be presented to the NI Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety “within weeks”, it has been reported.

Every one-degree fall in outside air temperature during the winter corresponds to a drop in ambulance response time of more than 1 per cent, reveals research published online in the Emergency Medicine Journal.

By Gary Culliton.