New ambulance call centre opens in Teesside

A brand-new team of health advisors is ready to take the region’s 999 and 111 calls from Teesside from this week. North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) opened its third base at Wynyard Business Park in Billingham in October 2018 in order to house additional clinicians for its Clinical Assessment Service (CAS), which was expanded as part of the five-year Integrated Urgent Care Service contract, worth £55 million, won by the Trust earlier that year. Now, after gaining additional funding for more health ...