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Combat trauma conference in London

Military and NHS medical professionals are sharing information on the best ways to treat trauma casualties at a conference in London.

Today's sessions have focused on the MEDEVAC process in Afghanistan and how to save the lives of those who suffer serious injuries in IED blasts.

A surgeon from the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham, the UK's largest trauma care centre, spoke at the event.

It deals with 4,000 trauma cases a year - almost double the 2,500 seen at the Camp Bastion Hospital.

All of the surgeons who go on to work at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital have first trained at the Nottingham site.

He says vital lessons have already been shared, but believes the NHS has much more to do to learn from the military