What is a Priority Setting Partnership?
A Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) brings together people with lived experience, members of the public, health professionals, and other stakeholders to identify the most important questions for future research. By collecting and reviewing questions from a wide range of voices, the PSP helps ensure that research is focused on the things that matter most to those affected.
What is in scope for this PSP?
This Priority Setting Partnership is focused on the Road Injury Chain of Survival, which begins at the moment a crash occurs and continues through rescue, care, transport, and rehabilitation. We welcome questions that aim to improve any part of this post-crash response—for example, how bystanders can be better supported to give first aid, how rescue services can work more effectively, or how recovery and rehabilitation can be improved.
We recognise that many important road safety efforts focus on preventing crashes from happening in the first place. However, this PSP is specifically looking at what happens after a crash has occurred, including factors that affect or strengthen the chain of survival. So while an educational campaign to help prevent crashes would fall outside the scope of this work, a campaign to help members of the public recognise serious injury and give safe and effective first aid would be very much included.
If you’re not sure whether your idea fits, please still share it—we’re happy to help decide where it belongs.
What is the Road Injury Chain of Survival?
- The Road Injury Chain of Survival is a framework designed to improve survival and recovery after a road traffic collision. It includes five key stages:
- Early Recognition and Call for Help – spotting serious injury and getting help quickly.
- Early Rescue – safely freeing people trapped in vehicles.
- Early Initial Care – giving first aid at the scene, often by bystanders or emergency responders.
- Early Transport – getting injured people to the right hospital without delay.
- Early Hospital Care and Rehabilitation – treating injuries and supporting recovery in hospital and beyond.
