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Canadian paramedics: Report won’t fix ambulance service

Document is ‘superficial glance’ with ‘no meaningful recommendations,’ responders say

By Krista Siefken
The Cowichan News Leader Pictorial

BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada — Paramedics are less than impressed with a recently released report reviewing the B.C. Ambulance Service.

The non-binding report, completed by former deputy finance minister Chris Trumpy, was commissioned following last year’s paramedic strike.

Providing fodder for the discussion around redesigning the B.C. Ambulance Service, Trumpy looked at five options for service delivery: the status quo, closer integration with health care, closer integration with first responders (firefighters), community driven service delivery, and private sector delivery.

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