Larrey Society—the global meeting place for paramedics

An emergency care practitioner at an NHS health trust in England. An EMS public official in Connecticut, USA. An intensive care flight paramedic in Tasmania. An assistant professor at the Seoul Medical Centre in Korea. A specialist nurse in pre-hospital emergency care in a Swedish ambulance service. The head of the ambulance service at the King Fahad Specialist Hospital in Saudi Arabia. An emergency nurse at the Komfo Anoyke Teaching Hospital in Ghana.

Although working thousands of miles away from each other these seven complete strangers have two facts of common interest—they have devoted their professional careers to pre-hospital emergency care and secondly they are members of The Larrey Society, the independent cross-sector ‘think tank’ formed in 2015 in England to help influence fit for purpose ambulance services to meet the needs of all patients in the 21^st century.

The Society has taken its name from Dominique Jean Larrey, the 17^th century military surgeon and acknowledged ‘father’ of modern day emergency medical services for his introduction of battlefield treatment and ‘flying ambulances’ for wounded soldiers during the Napoleonic wars.