Working together to ensure safe adult critical care patient transfers across North East and North Cumbria

Ambulance staff have assisted with training doctors and nurses from hospitals across the North East region to support the transport of critically ill patients. A team from the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) spent the day at the Nightingale North East Hospital in Sunderland alongside senior clinicians from the North of England Critical Care Network (NoECCN) supporting 60 hospital staff on how to use a critical care trolley on board an ambulance. The trolleys are custom built stretchers on wheels ...