Teams which provide care prior to a patient's arrival at a hospital.

Medical subspecialty which focuses on caring for seriously ill or injured patients before they reach hospital, and during emergency transfer to hospital or between hospitals.

Medical specialists who provides care during transfer of casualties to definitive care facilities.

Innovation procurement involves 3 stages and several steps per stage: 1. Preparatory stage (before procurement), covering the following steps: -identification and assessment of the needs of the procurer (and end-users); - verification of the needs against what already exists (prior art analysis & patent search); - verification of the needs against what the market can deliver (open market consultation); - formulation of the business-case for the procurer to start an innovation procurement (how to set the functionality/price requirements on the innovative solutions so the procurement achieves a positive cost/benefit outcome for the procurer); - drafting the tender documents (including setting IPR, confidentiality and standardisation requirements).

Medical practices that are designed to avert and avoid disease.

A form of notice published in the EU Official Journal which identifies upcoming procurement requirements. A PIN may be used to reduce the time periods associated with tendering, to give the market advance notice of requirements, to initiate preliminary market consultation or as a call for competition.

Important topics that need to be addressed.

Private EMS organisations provide non-emergency transport services, fee-for-service emergency service, or contracted emergency ambulance service to municipalities.

The process of obtaining good and/or services from an external source, usually through a tendering or bidding process. This includes determining requirements of the acquisition, selecting suppliers, award selection and other related functions.

Procurement activities include identifying and specifying the need, acquiring and managing the supply of goods from a third party, purchasing, contracting, contract and supplier management and supply chain management