The purpose of this document is to provide clear expectations of a BrisDoc team member if they should come across a road traffic collision (RTC), when travelling in a branded BrisDoc vehicle, at which first aid might be required as they could be the first clinician/person on the scene.
BrisDoc has no expectation that an on-duty clinician should stop and help:
- as this may impact on timely service delivery to, and therefore clinical safety of, BrisDoc patients waiting for their home visit,
- because BrisDoc is not an emergency service and the vehicles are not equipped to manage RTCs and casualties, and
- because our training expectation of our staff is in basic life support only.
BrisDoc has no expectation that a Driver or Clinician, using a BrisDoc vehicle for their daytime or non-clinical duties, should feel obliged to stop at a RTC for reasons b and c above.