Ambulance Service (Emergency Duties) Long Service and Good Conduct Medal Ambulance Service (Emergency Duties) Long Service and Good Conduct Medal The Ambulance Service (Emergency Duties) Long Service and Good Conduct Medal is a long service medal of the United Kingdom established in 1995. The medal is awarded to recognize long service by members of the ambulance services who serve on emergency duty. The Ambulance Service (Emergency Duties) Long Service and Good Conduct Medal is presented for 20 years of commendable service to Ambulance Technicians, Paramedics, and Ambulance Officers. Ambulance Officers must have served at least seven years on emergency duty. Service prior to 1974 in an ambulance service maintained by
Emergency Hospital Service Emergency Hospital Service During World War II, a centralised state-run Emergency Hospital Service was established in the United Kingdom. It employed doctors and nurses to care for those injured by enemy action and arrange for their treatment across the range of local and charity hospitals that existed at that time. It was also known as the Emergency Medical Service, although this was strictly speaking the medical staff of the service. According to David Stark Murray "Until war became imminent it was only with the greatest difficulty that anyone could be persuaded to regard the chaotic and anachronistic structure of medical