(BBC) There remain “unacceptable delays” in getting specialist paramedics to treat casualties in some major incidents, the Manchester Arena inquiry has heard.
The inquiry has heard only three medics went into the scene of the 2017 bombing amid concerns about further attacks.
The National Ambulance Resilience Unit’s (NARU) director Keith Prior said policies had since changed, but deployments could still be delayed.
Mr Prior said that may be due to a top-level “reluctance” to send resources.
The inquiry into the 2017 bombing, which killed 22 people and injured hundreds more, has begun looking into ways of shortening the “care gap,” a term used to describe the inevitable delay in trained medical professionals getting to a major incident.
