South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) has won a Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) award for its campaign to increase public awareness of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillators. Saving lives – the three Cs was named best healthcare campaign at the CIPR PRide Awards 2022 in the Anglia, Thames and Chiltern region. Alongside raising public awareness… Read more »
The Welsh Ambulance Service has introduced new technology which has enabled all of its patient records to go digital. The Trust generates an average 400,000 patient records a year, which traditionally have been captured as handwritten notes. Electronic Patient Clinical Record (ePCR) technology enables crews to capture information on an iPad, reducing paper, improving the accuracy of… Read more »
Sammy Wills, Yorkshire Air Ambulance’s (YAA) longest-serving HEMS Paramedic has celebrated her 20-year anniversary at the Charity. Yorkshire Air Ambulance is a lifesaving rapid response emergency service serving five million people across 4 million acres of Yorkshire. Last year, the crew responded to more than 1,700 incidents across the region. Sammy joined the Charity on… Read more »
Up against time is the name of the new campaign by London’s Air Ambulance Charity to raise £15 million by 2024. The money will pay to replace two helicopters and maintain them for five years The role of the helicopters is to take our medics to the patient quickly – providing the complex care patients… Read more »
Thames Valley Police has reached an important milestone with the successful completion of its 200th emergency contact handler apprenticeship. In 2018, Thames Valley Police began recruiting emergency contact handler apprentices to grow its workforce, widen participation across the community and provide a professional qualification for call handlers. Working out of Thames Valley Police’s Kidlington headquarters, Abingdon… Read more »
Winner of Celebrity MasterChef 2022, Lisa Snowdon, has joined Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) as a Celebrity Ambassador. The move came as a result of the mass catering episode, which aired on 6 September, when Lisa, along with the other celebrities, got a rare glimpse behind the scenes of the work carried out by… Read more »
The extraordinary contributions of the behind-the-scenes heroes who work tirelessly to serve and protect the public have been celebrated at the Control Room Awards 2022. The ceremony took place on the opening day of the Emergency Services Show and featured many inspirational stories of professionalism, dedication and resilience. The awards are the only accolades of… Read more »
St John Ambulance volunteers have come forward in their hundreds wishing to play their part in keeping members of the public safe throughout the period of national mourning and at ceremonial events, including Queen Elizabeth II’s lying in state and funeral. The first aid and health response charity’s volunteers have been providing 24-hour medical support… Read more »
London Ambulance Service has once again been named as the top NHS employer for apprenticeships in the country. The service is one of only three NHS trusts in the UK to make the rankings in the Department for Education’s Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers 2022 and is ranked at number 25. London Ambulance Service (LAS) has more… Read more »
West Midlands Ambulance Service is to hand back the 111 contract it provides for most of the West Midlands to concentrate on its 999 service. Part of this development will involve a move towards closer working between the NHS 111 service across the East and West Midlands integrating the two areas into a single shared… Read more »
