The Street Doctors initiative was set up in 2008 by two doctors at Liverpool’s Fazakerley Hospital, but until now has only been run in Merseyside, London, Manchester and Nottingham.
Through partnerships with youth offending teams, doctors work with under-18s, including gang members, teaching them skills to provide pre-hospital basic trauma management on the streets in order to “buy time” for professional medics.
The model is now set to be replicated across England and Wales after around 80 medical students from other cities visited Liverpool over the weekend to learn how the scheme works and take it back to their areas.
The initiative has been backed by John Bache, chair of the youth courts committee of the Magistrates’ Association, who was previously an accident and emergency doctor.
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