THE UK’s Medicines and
Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency (MHRA) has proposed
to amend legislation to allow
paramedics involved in helicopter
search and rescue operations to
administer medicines.
The impetus for the change is
the projected move for helicopter
search and rescue services in the
UK to a wholly contracted service in
2016, using civilian operators.
The MHRA said there was no
legal provision for registered
paramedics employed by civilian
operators to use patient group
directions (PDGs), exemptions that
allows administration of medicines
to groups of patients that meet
specific criteria.
The agency said currently in the
UK, PGDs could not be used in
private search and rescue services
and it proposed to amend the
Human Medicines Regulations 2012
to change this.
The proposal is open to
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