Snooks, HelenEvans, AngelaWells, BridgetPeconi, JulieThomas, MarieWoollard, MalcolmGuly, HenryJenkinson, EmmaTurner, JanetteHartley-Sharpe, Christopher2020-07-282020-07-282009-07-22Snooks, H. et al, 2009. What are the highest priorities for research in emergency prehospital care? Emergency Medicine Journal, 26 (8), 549-550.1472-02131472-020510.1136/emj.2008.065862http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/844The recent UK Department of Health publication “Taking Healthcare to the Patient: Transforming NHS Ambulance Services”1 recommended that the Department of Health should commission a programme of work to build the evidence base for the delivery of emergency and unscheduled prehospital care. As a starting point, the Department of Health commissioned the 999 EMS Research Forum to review the evidence base for the delivery of emergency prehospital care; to identify gaps in the evidence base; and to prioritise topics for future research. https://emj.bmj.com/content/26/8/549. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2008.065862enEmergency Medical ServicesPre-hospital CareEmergency CareCardiopulmonary ResuscitationResearchJournal Article/Review