Mr. Derek Smart:

By having the clinical nurse specialist present in the patrol car with our members going to these scenes, he gets that view of what our members are engaging with. He can then come back and relay that to a medical practitioner when they come to the station to talk about a case, so we get a fuller picture. We are pushing very hard to get a better outcome for the person who is in distress that we are dealing with. To have the expertise of people like George, Christine and Sarah there is phenomenal because they have access to the medical side of the house. They have access to their records and we access our records on our side of it, and we share that information.

The assistant commissioner will talk about the data sharing agreement that we have in place with regard to allowing that to happen on a legal basis. Again, it is towards having a better outcome for the patient.