Remote support in Emergency Assistance Clinical Health transfer
Remote Assistance Video Technology for Critical Care
Healthcare is increasingly complex, with specialist expertise concentrated in a few centres delivering expert care regionally. As a result, not all hospitals can provide every intervention when patients need them most. It is a gap that has not been studied before - Warwick, EMRTS and ACCTS Cymru are the first to address this gap.
It is vital that critically ill or injured patients are rapidly assessed, stabilised, and transferred from smaller hospitals to centres with the required expertise. This process is known as an inter-hospital transfer.
Specialist transfer services deliver intensive care wherever the patient is within the referring hospital or during transfer in a specially equipped vehicle. In Wales, ACCTS Cymru ensures that distance and geography do not limit access to this care.
Patients often require support from a specialist team during transfer. While intensive care doctors may accompany the most complex cases, specially trained Retrieval and Transfer Practitioners, experienced intensive care nurses, often lead these independently. Placing a consultant on every ambulance is impractical, but ACCTS Cymru uses advanced technology to provide real-time support from senior specialists.
ACCTS Cymru believes intensive care is a process, not a location.
The research developed by the multidisciplinary team supports and provides a solid, evidence-based policy change. It underpins the delivery of our mission, resulting in the development of a first-of-its-kind policy change.
