BC Emergency Response Model and First Responders

Whereas in May of 2018, BC Emergency Health Services BCEHS implemented the new Clinical Response Model for dispatching paramedics, ambulances and other resources to patients, throughout the province; And whereas under the new system highly trained rural first responders attached to fire departments and rescue societies are being called less frequently to medical incidents in their areas, resulting in pain and suffering and risking patient lives in rural and remote areas where ambulance dispatch may be an hour or more away: Therefore be it resolved that UBCM work with the BC Minister of Health to ensure that the BCEHS Clinical Response Model be changed to improve the utilization of local first responders in remote and rural areas.