Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he provides guidance to police forces on the prioritisation of day-to-day duties over responding to medical emergencies.

• The National Police Chiefs’ Council has produced comprehensive guidance for forces on introducing Right Care, Right Person, or RCRP, under which the right agencies should respond to medical emergencies. This often means a health response.
• It is for Chief Constables to determine how they deploy their resource but every English and Welsh force is working to adopt an RCRP approach.