
11 Dec 2007
Service’s use of single responders
The following statement has been issued in response to reports about the use of single responders by ambulance services nationally.
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The following statement has been issued in response to reports about the use of single responders by ambulance services nationally.
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Alcohol-related 999 calls to the London Ambulance Service have risen by 12 per cent in the capital in the last two years.
Continue reading23 Oct 2007
The survival rate of people who suffered from cardiac arrest in the capital has more than trebled in the last five years*, new London Ambulance Service figures reveal today.
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The London Ambulance Service is today celebrating becoming the highest rated ambulance service in the country.
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To be attributed to a London Ambulance Service spokesperson:
Continue reading24 Sep 2007
When Emergency Medical Dispatcher Katie Vallis talked Leo Hickman through the birth of his son, she never imagined that one day she would meet the new addition to the family.
Continue reading21 Aug 2007
Volunteers are needed in Haringey to take part in an exciting new scheme that will see ordinary residents trained to become potential life-savers.
Continue reading29 Jul 2007
An entertainer who suffered a cardiac arrest in the street was reunited on Friday (27 July) with the passer-by who saved his life by giving him cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in May this year.
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A report published today (Wednesday 11 July) outlining how the capital’s healthcare services could look in the future has been welcomed by the London Ambulance Service.
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The Service was kept busy over the weekend as large crowds gathered to watch the start of the Tour de France.
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25 Jun 2007
Richard Lee has been appointed as the new ambulance operations manager for the Croydon area.
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The Service was called at 4.06pm yesterday to reports that a building had collapsed in Dean Farrar Street, SW1.
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To be attributed to Ambulance Operations Manager Steve Colhoun:
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Outpatients are to meet for the first time the senior hospital managers who decide which organisations transport them to their clinical appointments.
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A 16-year-old boy received an award at the House of Commons on Friday (3 May) for his quick thinking in helping staff from the London Ambulance Service to resuscitate a man whose heart had stopped beating.
Continue reading26 Apr 2007
To be attributed to Deputy Director of Operations, Russell Smith:
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A 68-year-old man has thanked the ambulance crews who, along with his wife, helped to save his life when his heart stopped beating at Heathrow Airport.
Continue reading21 Apr 2007
Londoners are being urged to take extra care in the sun today as they watch what is tipped to be the UK’s hottest-ever Marathon day.
Continue reading16 Apr 2007
There are a number of issues that we would like to clarify following the broadcast of last night’s Tonight with Trevor McDonald ‘Paramedic Lottery’ programme.
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