We are delighted to share the 2025 AACE Cultural Calendar, as a resource for all our member trusts, staff and volunteer teams. We hope...
Category: News
Podcast: The challenges facing the ambulance workforce and the future of UK ambulance services
A podcast was published online featuring the CEO of The Ambulance Staff Charity Karl Demian jointly-interviewing Jason Killens, Chair of AACE and the CEO...
In conversation with: the NEAS patient transport service dispatch team
When patients make requests for use of our patient transport service, many teams work to ensure that each patient’s needs are met and that...
Teacher thanks LAS medics for helping to save her life at emotional reunion
A teacher struck down by a rare and life-threatening condition has met some of the paramedics who helped save her life at an emotional...
Scottish Ambulance Service Recruiting Community First Responders in North Berwick
The Scottish Ambulance Service is recruiting volunteers to join its North Berwick Community First Responder (CFR) group...
Our urgent and emergency care improvement proposals: joint statement
A joint statement on reform from: the Patients Association, Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Royal College of General Practitioners, College of Paramedics, National Association...
Lifesaving team installs 30 defibrillators
A West Midlands Ambulance Service paramedic who set out on a mission to install a single defibrillator in her hometown of Evesham, has now...
Influential figures call for ‘single UEC service’ for NHS
The NHS should create a “single 24/7 service” for urgent and emergency care to address what is currently a “fragmented and disjointed” system, six...
Exclusive: Expert review concludes NHS ‘got winter it prepared for’
A new plan authored by six leading expert groups and shared exclusively with HSJ has concluded the NHS “got the winter it prepared for”...
Sexual safety support fundraiser hits treble the target – and still climbing!
An ambulance sector community fundraising initiative has already raised £1,500 towards the establishment of a pioneering new sexual safety support service for ambulance staff...
Support sessions for our Apprentice Emergency Medical Technician role
It is no secret that we open our Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) apprenticeship opportunities at least once a year. When will they open? It...
Control staff raise funds for Air Ambulance NI
As part of International Control Room Week in October 2024, Control Room colleagues participated in a raffle to raise funds in aid of Air...
