Future standards for patient tranfers

For the next two days we are attending the CEN TC239 WG1 meeting in Berlin held at the DIN Standards Institute.

Our Managing Director Jon Ellis has kindly sent us these picture from the venue. DIN, the German Institute for Standardisation, is the gateway to global standardisation and develops standards that have validity worldwide. These help remove technical barriers to trade.

This week’s meeting will aim to establish standards for ambulances and their equipment in order to optimise pre-hospital care and facilitate transportation of patients including cross-border transfers and major disasters.

The standards shall embrace the special requirements of the base vehicle, the patient's compartment, the driver's compartment and the equipment; standards for stretchers and other patient handling equipment; and the interchangeability for patient transfers.