Budding photographers and artists across the North East are being invited to join in an innovative project with their local ambulance service to help...
Category: North East Ambulance Service
Medical students team up to support their NEAS emergency services
The new scheme between North East Ambulance Service, Newcastle University and Newcastle University Students’ Union (NUSU), to provide lifesaving support to people in an...
NHS appeal to use vital services wisely this New Year
As we head into the New Year celebrations, the NHS across the North East is continuing to ask members of the public to use...
Region’s NHS launches major public awareness campaign in appeal for people to help our vital services by using them wisely
As the NHS prepares to manage the increase in demand which is expected at this time of year, health chiefs are making an important...
Safe Haven receives Christmas cash boost to protect the public over festive period
A service which offers a safe space for night time revellers has been extended over the Christmas and New Year period. The Safe Haven service,...
NHS pressures
NHS organisations across the North East and North Cumbria are appealing to people with flu-like symptoms or vomiting and diarrhoea to stay away from...
Teesside Medicar scheme extended
The Medicar is a joint initiative involving Cleveland Police and the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) and currently operates on Friday nights from 7.30pm...
NEAS vehicles re-designed to help patients
44 ambulances and 43 Patient Transport Service vehicles have been adapted to make them more accessible to disabled people, including people with sight and...
Newcastle/Gateshead falls project extended
The Falls Rapid Response Service operates in Newcastle and Gateshead and is made up of paramedics and occupational therapists who respond to 999 and...
Doctor converted – on road to Hexham
But he’s only alive today because several passers-by, including two nurses, came together to administer CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) after he collapsed as he cycled...
Newcastle United Foundation staff train youngsters in CPR
The Foundation have organised Restart a Heart classes to equip children with the skills and confidence to give potentially life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to anyone...
Berwick community paramedic scheme extended
The community paramedic scheme – which is a joint initiative between the NHS Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and NEAS - was launched in...
