The UK's Scottish Parliament is to provide £1.5 million ($2.95 million) to fund an 18-month pilot emergency medical retrieval service.
The service will involve the Greater Glasgow and Clyde and the Scottish Ambulance service working with rural health boards.
It will involve the deployment of specialist medical teams from Glasgow by either air ambulance or Royal Navy Westland Sea Kings to provide emergency medical treatment in rural areas of western Scotland.
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Emergency medicine consultant Dr Stephen Hearns, lead consultant for the pilot scheme, which follows an earlier voluntary project, hopes the service will become permanent.
"It will offer an integrated system of rural emergency care, provide rural GPs with additional training in emergency care and allow immediate access to expert advice on patient care and management," he says.
Source: Flight International
