Ambulance services to be directly commissioned by seven Welsh health boards in an effort to meet performance targets: A major shake-up of Wales’ ambulance...
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URGENT DRUG CORRECTION – Please share with your Clinical Staff immediately
03/07/13 To Chief Executives and Medical directors of all UK NHS Ambulance Service Trusts URGENT DRUG DOSE ERROR A drug dose error within the...
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West Midlands Ambulance Service assists in major fire
Emergency resources from West Midlands Ambulance Service including ambulance vehicles, paramedic officers and the Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) were sent to the scene...
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Driver First Assist programme endorsed by AACE
Driver First Assist is a not for profit organisation comprising drivers (DFAs) who have been trained to provide life saving first aid and manage the...
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Report: ‘Little evidence’ to suggest merging fire services and EMS is a good idea
A third-party consultant is advising the city of Toronto against merging its fire department and paramedic service in an effort to cut costs. A...
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College of Paramedics urge grave caution of over rescue services merger
The College of Paramedics is urging considerable caution over contents of yesterday’s report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Homeland Security, which recommends that...
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Ambulance services: Rise in number of patients treated entirely at the scene
New figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) show in 2012-13 almost two million patients were treated at the scene by...
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QUEEN’S AMBULANCE MEDALS ANNOUNCED IN QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST
The third set of recipients of the prestigious Queen’s Ambulance Service Medal for Distinguished Service were announced in Her Majesty the Queen’s Birthday Honours...
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NARU SHOWS INTEROPERABILITY AT ITS BEST WITH SUCCESSFUL DELIVERY OF EXERCISE AMBER
Feedback from observers at the National Ambulance Resilience Unit (NARU)-organised Exercise Amber 2 has revealed it to be one of the largest and most significant ambulance-led...
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Emergency care and emergency services 2013 – Foundation Trust Network Report
A&E pressures look set to increase next winter, according to a new survey of NHS trusts by the Foundation Trust Network, which shows that...
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11TH AMBULANCE LEADERSHIP FORUM PROVIDES ‘AN INTERNATIONAL ASSEMBLY’ FOR DISCUSSION ON PRE-HOSPITAL CARE’
The Managing Director of the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) Martin Flaherty declared the eleventh Ambulance Leadership Forum, “the best yet” as over...