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England | Health Minister visits South Central Ambulance Service NHS...
Health Minister Lord Howe visited South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust’s (SCAS) Bicester headquarters on Monday 7 January 2013. The Minister met with SCAS CEO Will Hancock, Trust Chair...
View ArticleEngland | Local family donates £600 to Crowthorne Community First Responder...
Crowthorne resident Kathy Woodage and her family have generously donated £600 to South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust’s (SCAS) Crowthorne Community First Responder Scheme. Kathy, son...
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England | On the 31st of January SCAS HART celebrated its 2nd birthday
The last year has seen the team mobilised to over 700 incidents as far afield as Poole and Bournemouth as well as throughout the SCAS area. Recently HART completed a deployment over to the Isle of...
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England | Official launch of Ford Kuga 4×4 for Mortimer and Burghfield...
After 6 years of active fundraising the South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust’s (SCAS) Mortimer and Burghfield Community First Responder Scheme has raised enough money to purchase a new...
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England | Eurostar Gary speeds to the rescue off-duty
Maids Moreton based Ambulance Care Assistant Gary Walton has been praised by Eurostar for his part in an incident on one of their trains travelling from Paris to London on 22 October 2012. Off duty...
View ArticleEngland | SCAS ambulance involved in fatal RTC in Brighton
Statement from South East Coast Ambulance Service on fatal collision in Brighton “We can confirm that one of our ambulances was involved in a fatal road traffic collision with a car on Marine Drive in...
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England | Riding with SCAS ACA crews – Caring people caring for patients
We rode out with ACA crews Gary Gray and Sandy Taylor from Oxford City, Nicola Dyer and Lynn Bernstone from Stoke Mandeville and Terri Davis and John Watts from Winchester and Eastleigh Resource Centre...
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England | SCAS’ Melanie Burns saves patient from diabetic coma
On 11 February Melanie Burns, who works as an Ambulance Care Assistant for the Trust’s Patient Transport Service (PTS) out of Wallingford PTS station, was providing transport home for two patients she...
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England | Medway granddad thanks SCAS ambulance crews
A Medway granddad, who suffered a cardiac arrest just days after Christmas, has been reunited with the ambulance clinicians who saved his life. Trevor Winch, 70, was at home in Gillingham when he...
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England | New series of BBC Real Rescues featuring SCAS staff
Ambulance crews and Control Room staff from South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) will feature in the new series of BBC Real Rescues from Monday 11 March 2013. BBC Real Rescues...
View ArticleEngland | 10-year-old Emily’s 999 call helps to save her mother
Ten-year-old Emily Andrews was at home in Twyford, Berkshire with her four-year-old brother Alex and mother Anna on 2 April 2013 when her mother started to fit. With her father at work and her mother...
View ArticleEngland | Patient and EMS crew member killed, two other people seriously...
A double crewed ambulance belonging to South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) was involved in a collision with a tree on the A337 Brockenhurst to Lyndhurst road at 09.35 this...
View ArticleEngland | Operation Feldberg – appeal for witnesses to ambulance collision in...
Police are appealing for information about a collision involving an ambulance near Brockenhurst in which two people died. At 9.35 this morning (Friday, April 26) roads policing officers were called to...
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England | Remembering SCAS ambulance technician Gill Randall
On Friday 26th April an Ambulance from South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust was involved in an accident at Brockenhurst, resulting in the death of our dearly lovely and respected...
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England | Four-year-old Maddox’s 999 call helps save his mother
With his father at work and his 2 year old sister at home 4 year old Maddox Shearer knew exactly what to do at 11.30am on 22 April 2013 when he couldn’t wake his mother Hollie at their home in Milton...
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England | Nation’s first Student Responder scheme at Oxford University
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) Community Liaison and Training Officers David England and Ian Jones working together with Oxford University Medical School have launched the...
View ArticleEngland | SCAS urges people to take care in the hot weather
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust’s Trust’s 2 Emergency Operations Centres (Bicester & Otterbourne) take an average of 1200 emergency calls a day between them, 330 of which are...
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England | Lifesaving AED locator app launched by South Central Ambulance Service
As part of its ongoing ‘Start a Heart’ campaign, South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to be the first ambulance trust in the UK to launch an app that locates the...
View ArticleUK | London Ambulance Service providing mutual aid to SCAS due to flooding
“Like many emergency services throughout the UK, our colleagues at South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) are receiving a high volume of calls due to the flooding. “Having managed the current situation...
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UK | SCAS issues guidance for calling 999 during ongoing flooding
Like all the emergency services we are experiencing a high volume of calls, and are utilising all available resources to maintain our levels of service and care provision to the community. Working...
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UK | RAF Community Responders resuscitate cardiac arrest patient on golf...
On the 10 December 2013 a 999 call was made for an ambulance to attend a collapsed 23 year old male. RAF Co-Responders Gareth Jones and Graham Jones and Burghfield CFR (Community First Responder) David...
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UK | At the HART of it with South Central Ambulance Service
SCAS Communications Manager Michelle Archer recently had the opportunity of spending a shift with the SCAS Hazardous Area Response Team (HART), here is part 1 of her story. The shift was to commence at...
View ArticleUK | Romsey teen reunited with SCAS staff who helped save his life
Romsey teenager Sam Mangoro kept a very special appointment this week during his school holidays by meeting South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) staff who helped save his life. Sam, 16, a student at...
View Article#UK | Milton Keynes man meets #SCAS crews who saved his life...
A Milton Keynes man has been reunited with SCAS crews who saved his life following a cardiac arrest. Steve Persighetti, 59, was at home in February with his wife Rozany, when he started to experience...
View Article#UK | #SCAS turns to #Poland as part of its #paramedic #recruitment drive
Four skilled and experienced Poles have recently become the first cohort of qualified paramedics from Poland to begin working for South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) NHS Foundation Trust. It has...
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