Cambourne | 17 May 2012 The region’s ambulance service today welcomed government plans to help ensure that patients get sent the right support and in turn make more vehicles available. East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) Chief Executive Hayden Newton has been campaigning for the change as part of his role within...
London | 17 May 2012 At least 150 lives could be saved under changes to the way 999 calls are received which will prioritise call outs to the most critically ill patients. The changes will mean that ambulances are saved from making over half a million wasted journeys a year. From June 2012, ambulance...
London | 17 May 2012 Patients across the capital stand to benefit from changes announced today to reduce the number of ambulances that are cancelled while on the way to emergency calls. Under the adjustment to the dispatch system – which will come into effect from 1 June – up to an extra 60 seconds...
London | 17 May 2012 The founder of London Ambulance Service’s cycle response unit has won a prestigious national award. Emergency Medical Technician Tom Lynch, the former international BMX racing champion who pioneered responding to patients in London using pedal power, scooped top prize in the Emergency Services category at the Daily Record Our...
London | 17 May 2012 Three London Ambulance Service paramedics will be cycling 1,200 miles in 16 days to raise money for Help for Heroes. The paramedics from the Service’s hazardous area response team (HART) – a group of staff with extra training who can give life-saving medical care in hostile environments such as...
Stockholm | 17 May 2012 ECDC, through the VBORNET network, publishes regularly on its website maps on exotic mosquitoes and on phlebetomines - to provide the ECDC stakeholders and the general public with the most updated information on vector distribution. The maps are updated and improved quarterly. For the first time maps on the...
Jutland | 17 May 2012 The fox tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis, was recently detected by the National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, in a fox from the southern part of Jutland. The parasite was initially detected in three foxes in the Copenhagen area twelve years ago, EPI-NEWS 5/00, but has not since been monitored...
Ireland | 17 May 2012 The Health Information and Quality Authority has today published the report of its investigation into the quality, safety and governance of the care provided by the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin incorporating the National Children’s Hospital, for patients in the Emergency Department and those requiring acute admission to the...
Wigan | 15 May 2012 Brandon Halton was given a day to remember when firefighters from Wigan made him an honorary fireman for the day. Ten-year-old Brandon who suffers from a rare form of liver cancer spent the day with Blue Watch riding in a fire engine and squirting water while learning all about...
Constable Way, Gleadless | 15 May 2012 A Sheffield woman was taken to hospital on Monday morning after trying to tackle a fire in her bedroom. It’s thought an electric heater caused the blaze at the terraced house on Constable Way, Gleadless. The 50 year-old suffered burns to both hands and smoke inhalation, and...
