Paramedics at London Ambulance Service have featured in a new advert from NHS Blood and Transplant that calls for urgent blood donations for critically...
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London Ambulance Service ranked as a top apprenticeship employer
London Ambulance Service is one of the top UK apprenticeship employers named in The Times today. It ranks at number three in the list...
London Ambulance Service remembers 7/7 on the 20th anniversary
Dozens of uniformed ambulance crews and control room staff from London Ambulance Service joined survivors and the bereaved at St Paul’s Cathedral to mark...
‘I never thought I would have to use my first aid skills on my mum’: Sons save their mum following cardiac arrest
A son recalled life-saving skills he had learned years before to help save his mother’s life when she collapsed following a family Sunday lunch...
“Like a horror film” – patient who terrorised ambulance crew given community service
A man who kicked through the windscreen of an ambulance and threw bricks at the crew has avoided jail and been given community service....
Chief People Officer at London Ambulance Service takes on new challenge
After more than four years as Chief People Officer at London Ambulance Service, Damian McGuinness has been appointed as the new Chief People Officer...
Paramedics urge Londoners to stay safe as ambulance service prepares for surge in 999 calls
London Ambulance Service is calling on Londoners to only call 999 in a life-threatening emergency as the Service prepares for a potential rise in...
Teenage cardiac arrest survivor encourages Londoners to learn how to save a life
A teenager whose life was saved by strangers while Christmas shopping is backing London Ambulance Service’s mission to train a generation in life-saving skills...
“Nobody should have to deal with this, we are just trying to help” – unacceptable abuse takes its toll on 999 call handlers in BBC’s Ambulance documentary
The harsh reality of verbal abuse on 999 call handlers comes under the spotlight when a man bombards staff with dozens of sexually suggestive...
Irish paramedic follows in her grandfather’s footsteps by joining London Ambulance Service
A paramedic has followed in her grandfather’s footsteps by travelling from Ireland to work for London Ambulance Service. Although Samantha Sanson was just 11-years-old...
Cardiac arrest survivor signs up for London Ambulance Charity walk
A man who beat the odds to survive a cardiac arrest is the first person to sign up for this year’s London Ambulance Charity...
“It’s so strange appearing dead on national TV’: Breath-taking moment when LAS crew restart a man’s heart shown in BBC ‘Ambulance’ documentary
The dramatic moment ambulance clinicians revive a man whose heart has stopped beating as he is taken to hospital is captured on camera in...