Ambulance TXA equipment review

12 items 2 sources

Need for review into whether frontline ambulances should carry specific life-saving medications like intramuscular tranexamic acid (TXA).

Cross-Source Insight

Ambulance TXA equipment review has been flagged across 2 independent accountability sources:

9 inquiry recs 3 PFD reports

This issue has been identified by multiple independent accountability bodies, suggesting it is a recurring systemic concern.

MAI-101 — Review analgesia regulatory regime for paramedics
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Recommendation: The Department of Health and Social Care and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) should consider urgently whether the regulatory regime should be altered to enable analgesia, such as fentanyl lozenges or sufentanil sublingual tablets, to be given …
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted In progress
MAI-105 — Consider SMART Triage Tags in paramedic bags
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Recommendation: The Department of Health and Social Care and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider whether the Basic Life Support and Advanced Life Support bags used by paramedics should contain SMART Triage Tags or an equivalent.
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted In progress
MAI-109 — Review stretchers on Mass Casualty Equipment Vehicles
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Recommendation: The Department of Health and Social Care and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should review whether stretchers should be carried on National Capability Mass Casualty Equipment Vehicles.
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted Delivered
MAI-113 — Public Access Trauma kits equipment requirements
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Recommendation: The Department of Health and Social Care should take steps to ensure that Public Access Trauma kits contain the equipment that is necessary to enable first responder interventions to be undertaken.
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted In progress
MAI-114 — Review optimal stretcher types for mass casualties
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Recommendation: The Department of Health and Social Care should undertake a review, with input from other bodies as the Department considers appropriate, in order to identify the type of stretcher that is of the greatest utility in the event of a …
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted Delivered
MAI-116 — Consider freeze-dried plasma for HART operatives
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Recommendation: The Department of Health and Social Care, the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, the College of Paramedics and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider whether all Hazardous Area Response Team operatives should be deployed with freeze-dried plasma and trained in …
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted In progress
MAI-118 — Review intramuscular TXA on frontline ambulances
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Recommendation: The Department of Health and Social Care, the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, the College of Paramedics and the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should undertake a review into whether frontline ambulances should carry intramuscular tranexamic acid or TXA.
Gov response: The Home Secretary made a written statement to Parliament on 3 November 2022 following publication of Volume 2, acknowledging the findings on emergency response failures and stating the government would work with emergency services to …
Accepted In progress
MAI-49 — Review analgesia rollout to HART operatives
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Recommendation: If the decision is that the regulatory regime should be altered in this way, the National Ambulance Resilience Unit should consider urgently whether the use of such analgesia should be rolled out to all Hazardous Area Response Team and other …
Gov response: The Security Industry Authority (SIA) published a formal statement on 17 June 2021 in response to Volume 1 of the Manchester Arena Inquiry. The SIA committed to collaborating with the private security industry, law enforcement, …
Accepted In progress
MAI-91 — Review analgesia deployment for firearms officers
Manchester Arena Inquiry
Recommendation: The College of Policing and Counter Terrorism Policing Headquarters should review whether firearms officers should be deployed with analgesia and trained in its use, as part of providing Care Under Fire.
Gov response: The Security Industry Authority (SIA) published a formal statement on 17 June 2021 in response to Volume 1 of the Manchester Arena Inquiry. The SIA committed to collaborating with the private security industry, law enforcement, …
Accepted In progress
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