West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) teamed up with the OurJay Foundation to Install OurJay’s 155th AED (defibrillator) outside of Paddox Cycles shop, in Rugby. AEDs are pieces of equipment used to restart the heart, in a cardiac arrest incident.
Read More “LIFESAVING AED INSTALLED DURING OUR ‘LET US SEE YOUR AED’ CAMPAIGN”
For Peter Corr, the 12th of September 2019 started like any other day, however, during an early morning run Peter suffered an out of hospital cardiac arrest, that statistically should have ended his life.
However, thanks to the swift actions of Melissa Williams, 4 and a half years on, Peter and Melissa have been able to recount what they call ‘that day’ in Peter’s family home, which he shares with his wife and three children, in Telford.
Read More “Melissa Has Given Me the Gift of ‘Life Part Two’”
West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) proudly launches social media campaign ‘Let Us See Your AED’ to encourage the registration of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), also known as Defibrillators, on the British Heart Foundation’s ‘The Circuit’. AEDs are life-saving pieces of equipment used to shock a cardiac arrest patient’s heart.
Read More “Over 2700 AEDs in the West Midlands Not Registered on The Circuit”
Telford Community First Responder (CFR) Becky has taken on the challenge of a cold water swim every day in February to raise money for the Telford Community First Responders Scheme.
After smashing her original target of £500, Becky is now hoping to raise a total of £1000 for the scheme as she battles water temperatures below 10c.
Community First Responders volunteer their time to support WMAS crews by responding to the most critically ill patients in order to provide life-saving medical aid, in often time critical situations. CFR Schemes are entirely self-funded and rely on donations for the community in order to operate.
Read More “Community First Responder Becky’s Cold-Water Challenge”
You just never know what the day will bring! It’s a comment that you would hear from any ambulance crew, but now the public will get to see just what our staff face with the new series of “999: On the Frontline” set to hit our TV screens.
The programme, which returns for it’s tenth series, follows crews from West Midlands Ambulance Service as they race to save lives and help people in their hour of need.
The exceptionally popular and successful Student Paramedic training programme at West Midlands Ambulance Service provides an alternative route for you to gain your dream job.
As a Student Paramedic you will be supported in the clinical environment while you work your way through your training programme which will take up to 42 months resulting in HCPC registration as a Paramedic. You will also have access to Clinical Team Mentors for specified periods who will provide advice and guidance to support your clinical practice.
All Student Paramedics earn while you learn, completing their training via a full apprenticeship pathway and have guaranteed employment as a Paramedic as the successful completion of their programme.
Nearly 70% of cardiac arrests happen within 500 meters of a school and there is a requirement for all state schools to have access to a Defibrillator, but what happens when the school is closed and access to the defibrillator becomes limited?
Paramedic, Alice Jones alongside charity OurJay Foundation made it their mission to place a brand-new Defibrillator in Walsall at Walsall Academy on Thursday (7th December) on the outside of the school making the Defibrillator accessible all year round, day and night.
Read More “Lifesaving defibrillator installed outside Walsall Academy”
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The Trust serves a population of 5.6 million people covering an area of more than 5,000 square miles made up of Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Coventry, Birmingham and Black Country conurbation.
As the region’s emergency ambulance service, we respond to around 4,000 ‘999’ calls each day. To manage that level of demand, we employ approximately 7,500 staff and operate from 15 fleet preparation hubs across the region.
We also provide non-emergency patient transport services across some parts of the region and Cheshire for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need. Our staff complete approximately 1,000,000 non-emergency patient journeys each year.
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Jamie Arrowsmith – Thursday 25th April 2024 – 10am Not content with running one Ultramarathon in his lifetime, Telford CFR Peter Corr is all set to tackle a second one at the weekend, but this time in reverse. Peter, who…
Read More Cardiac arrest survivor to tackle Ultramarathon…again!
Shaunna Farley – Wednesday 24th April 2024 – 9.30am. A woman has sustained life-threatening injuries following a collision in Wolverhampton yesterday. West Midlands Ambulance Service was called at 7.24pm to a collision involving a bus and a pedestrian at the…
Jamie Arrowsmith – Wednesday 24th April 2024 – 8.35am. A woman has died and two men have been taken to hospital following an RTC in Redditch yesterday. West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to reports of a three-car RTC on…
Jamie Arrowsmith – Friday 19th April 2024 – 3pm A man has died following a single-car RTC this morning. West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the A38 in Lichfield, near to the Swinfen Interchange roundabout, at 8.53am and sent…
Amy Stubbs – Monday 15th April 2024 – 10.30am A man has died after a collision in Oldbury last night. West Midlands Ambulance Service was called at 7.58pm to Stone Street and sent two ambulances, two paramedic officers, a MERIT…
Amy Stubbs – Monday 15th April 2024 – 9.30am A child has died and two women were taken to hospital after a road traffic collision in Birmingham last night. West Midlands Ambulance Service was called at 9.45pm to Upper Highgate…
Many thanks for your amazing response to my husband’s mini stroke. The staff who attended to him were caring, professional and made a very upsetting and scary time, a lot easier. The call handler was also brilliant, he was calm and measured, which helped keep me calm. The ambulance staff were phenomenal, we can’t praise or thank them all enough.
Paramedics came to my house as I had done a blood test earlier than day and the GP had contacted me to say my blood sugar was very low and had advised me to ring an ambulance. Paramedics found that my ECG looked abnormal, so they said they would take me to hospital as a precaution to make sure everything was ok. They explained things to me well and also reassured my parents! They were a wonderful crew.
Please do pass on my sincere thanks to your 111 call handler who was friendly, personable whilst also managing the need to go through the set questions. Also thanks to the Dr who was very friendly, reassuring and very detailed in her assessment. Even when my daughter did say she didn’t want to see a Dr! It meant we could stay at home in a safe environment for my daughter and we weren’t taking up any additional valuable resources.
