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Report presented by Emma Williams, Service Development and Policy Manager and Anna Starling, Service Development Officer (copy attached).

The Committee receive a report from the Service Development and Policy Manager.   Members asked for reassurance that, given the extent of roadworks and the resulting changes to access arrangements; i.e. for the Barbican and social housing estates in the City, all crews are immediately issued with updated keys/passes. The Service Development and Policy Manager responded that although local crews already had keys, ambulances could often be called out from other areas of London to attend emergencies and it was not possible to equip all ambulance crews with keys and passes for all estates across London.

In response to a question about extra pressure during the Olympics, the Manager advised that although more ambulance services would be required for the Games period additional crews would be drafted in from outside London to ensure that the Olympics would be no adverse effect on normal services to residents.

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