Dear The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives,

These requests are in relation to the:- ‘NASMeD Best Practice guidance. Conveyance of
children by operational ambulance clinicians in face-to-face settings, July 2021.’

1. Are you able to provide a copy of the original letter received from RCPCH from June
2019.
2. Do you have a copy of the agenda, notes taken or minutes from the workshop in July
2020 involving ambulance trust paediatric leads.
3. Two statements are made as the underlying reasons for caution around a decision
not to convey a younger child to hospital. 1. Significant illness and injury can be
harder to diagnose in very young children, 2. Underlying safeguarding issues can
often be equally difficult to appreciate initially. Can you advise what research and
data was used to make these two statements?
4. Provide any agenda, notes taken or minutes from meetings between the
Intercollegiate Committee for Standards for Children and Young People in
Emergency Care Settings and the National Ambulance Service Medical Directors
group relating to the conveyance of children to hospital.

Yours faithfully,

John Anthony