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 response and recovery activities. The Copernicus EMS is composed of an on-demand mapping component providing rapid maps for emergency response and risk & recovery maps for prevention and planning and of the early warning and monitoring component which includes systems for floods, droughts and forest fires. The CEMS is composed of four service elements: All products of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (data, information, analyses, incl. website content) are made available to the public for free as open data as per the explicit definition in its "Data & Dissemination Policy": 2015 Copernicus Work Programme adopted by Commission Implementing Decision C(2015)