Entries from May 2009

New boss at Yorkshire Ambulance Service

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

A new non-executive director has been appointed to the board of Yorkshire Ambulance Service


Ambulances spread the word FAST

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Six ambulances with the South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Trust have been decorated in eye-catching graphics which carry the Department of Health and Stroke Association’s FAST campaign


Ambulance services move in to Tesco’s to cut response times

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Great Western Ambulance Service has teamed up with Tesco to cut response times.An ambulance crew is now permanently based at the supermarket in Brockworth to serve 999 callers on the east of Gloucester


Entonox stolen from ambulance site

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Thrill-seeking thieves are thought to be behind the theft of 15 cylinders of anaesthetic gas from an ambulance station


Six hurt in crash between police car and ambulance

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Four police officers and two paramedics were taken to hospital after a crash between a police car and an ambulance


Paramedics in Shining knife horror

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Two paramedics feared for their lives after they were lured into a man’s home and threatened with a knife, a court heard yesterday


Kids are safer in Scots ambulances

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Kids are safer in Scots ambulances

Hundreds of emergency crews are adapting their ambulances with a new system to stop tots falling off stretchers while racing to hospital


A quarter of Britons are hazardous drinkers

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

A quarter of Britons are hazardous drinkers

NHS organizations have seen significant increases in alcohol-based admissions in the last 10 years,” he said. “The direct effects for the NHS range from public health problems to pressure on ambulance service resources and staff safety


Ireland: Calls for ambulance regulation

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

A private ambulance service provider has called for regulation of the sector “to ensure patient safety”


Volunteer medics honoured for maginficent winter work

May 25th, 2009 by Editor | 3 Comments

Volunteer ambulance workers have been honoured for their work






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