Emergency Medical Retrieval Service Emergency Medical Retrieval Service The Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS) provides aeromedical critical care to people in Scotland. It provides patients in remote and rural areas with rapid access to the skills of a consultant in emergency or intensive care medicine as well as facilitating transfers to larger, better equipped city hospitals. The team is available 24 hours a day with services` provided in partnership with the Scottish Ambulance Service utilising both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. The service began operating in the West of Scotland in 2004 and has provided a national service since 2010. The EMRS now operate as
Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service The Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) is one of the six thematic services provided by the European Union's Copernicus Programme. The Copernicus Programme is managed by the European Commission and the CEMS is implemented by EU's Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, in partnerships with the CEMS Service Providers. CEMS was the first of the Copernicus Services to become fully operational, in April 2012. CEMS provides information for emergency response in relation to different types of disasters, including meteorological hazards, geophysical hazards, deliberate and accidental man-made disasters and other humanitarian disasters as well as prevention, preparedness,