As I sat in my first lecture as a journalism student at Birmingham City University, I felt utterly deflated when I was told I...
Category: West Midlands Ambulance Service
WMAS ambulance staff all set for Birmingham Pride
Over 80 staff, volunteers and students from West Midlands Ambulance Service will be marching in this year’s Pride parade in Birmingham to show support...
Are you really fine? How WMAS supports staff mental health wellbeing
It's Mental Health Awareness Week and according to the Mental Health Foundation, the average adult will say "I'm fine"14 times this week, yet less...
Not smart and certainly not clever; how hoax calls can put lives at risk
Bosses at WMAS are warning that lives could be at risk if people continue to make hoax calls to the service. New data shows...
WMAS faced steep rise in calls immediately after World Cup semi-final ends
West Midlands Ambulance Service faced a barrage of 999 emergency calls after the England vs Croatia match as some fans struggled to come to...
WMAS Trust thanks volunteers for heroic efforts
An awards ceremony to honour members of the public from across the West Midlands who have gone beyond the call of duty to help...
Ambulance attacked whilst responding to 999 emergency
WMAS bosses are appealing for members of the public to help them identify the individual(s) who smashed the window of an ambulance whilst it...
WMAS welcomes news that school children are to be taught CPR
West Midlands Ambulance Service says thousands of lives could be saved in years to come with news that all secondary school children are to...
New partnership blue lights the way for Wolverhampton University and WMAS
The move means the service has changed its name to West Midlands Ambulance Service University NHS Foundation Trust, becoming the first university ambulance service...
Urgent WMAS referral team goes live helping patients and hospitals alike
Today saw the return of a service that will help some of the sickest patients WMAS see get to hospital on time, while helping...
West Midlands paramedic’s campaign of positivity spreads #BlueLightHappy
Rob Moore's efforts on Twitter get public to share their stories of when the emergency services have helped them provide morale boost to ambulance...
WMAS appeals ‘lenient sentence’ for staff assault
West Midlands Ambulance Service is so disappointed in the sentence handed down to a man convicted of assaulting two staff, the Trust has written...
