VOLUNTEER emergency doctors from Hampshire are travelling to London today to lobby for their services to be Government-funded.
Members of BASICS Hampshire will hear a House of Lords debate tabled for today at 7.30pm.
Liberal Democrat peer Lucius Cary, the 15th Viscount Falkland, is asking the Government why the National Health Service does not provide cash to pay for doctors to treat critically-injured and ill patients outside hospital anywhere in the UK except London.
BASICS – the British Association for Immediate Care – is a national charity that provides volunteer doctors to cover critical incidents while off duty.
They respond to all types of critical medical incidents, from car crashes and stabbings to major emergencies.
The BASICS doctors from Hampshire will join volunteer doctors from across the country to hear the issue of Government funding for emergency doctors debated in the House of Lords.
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