National award win for North East trauma team

A team of North East paramedics working to improve the lives of major trauma patients has picked up a national award. Every year, North East Ambulance Service crews attend around 300,000 incidents, of which around 1,500 are categorised as major trauma with an average of three incidents a day. North East Ambulance Service’s trauma team responds to major trauma incidents across the region as well as working in partnership with other agencies to promote public health and developing pre-hospital knowledge ...