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Governors meetings

We are holding meetings across the four counties we serve.

Winchester meeting
Date: Monday 3 June 2013
Venue: Hampshire County Council,
Elizabeth II Court South, Winchester
Times: 16.00 - 1700

Southampton meeting
Date: Tuesday 11 June
Venue: Southampton City Council,
Civic Centre
Times: There is a lunch and an afternoon session, please pick one
13.00 - 14.00 and 16:00 - 17:00

To book your place please ring 01869 365126 or email getinvolved@scas.nhs.uk

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Local ambulance service needs volunteer car drivers

Volunteers’ Week (1-7 June) is an annual event which celebrates the amazing contribution that millions of volunteers make throughout the UK. It’s also a great opportunity for you to get involved with your local ambulance service as a volunteer car driver.
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4 year old Maddox’s 999 call helps to save his mother

What’s more he waited for the ambulance crew to arrive and opened the door for them when they did!
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A grand gesture from a grateful patient.

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) is grateful to Blewbury residents Philip and Moyra Randall for their generous donation to the Trust’s Didcot Resource Centre.
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SCAS take on the 3 Peaks Challenge in Aid of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance

A team of ambulance staff from SCAS are taking part in the 3 Peaks Challenge in aid of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance charity.
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Rotary Club of Ascot donates cuddly dogs to Bracknell ambulance station.

The Rotary Club of Ascot has generously donated a second batch of 100 cuddly toy dogs to South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust’s Bracknell ambulance station. The dogs are designed as a gift for children aged 0 to 5 years who through injury or illness find themselves travelling to hospital by emergency ambulance.
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Solar panels help drive efficiencies for local ambulance fleet.

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) is the first ambulance service in England to introduce solar panels on to its Rapid Response Vehicles (RRV).
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Working with Eastleigh College to install Automated External Defibrillators

In the UK approximately 30,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest outside a hospital environment and are treated by emergency medical services every year.
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Crowthorne Community First Responder Scheme donates a second public access defibrillator

The defibrillator will be kept inside the Pinewood Café and Bar, Old Wokingham Road, Wokingham, Berkshire
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Remembering Gill

Moving tributes from son Greg, partner Steve and parents Reverend Doreen and Reverend Michael White, describe Gill as someone ‘who listened, who healed and who cared.
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Tragic death of a SCAS member of staff and a patient in the New Forest

We have been overwhelmed by the number of messages of support and best wishes from partner organisations and individuals, both nationally and internationally.
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Local ambulance service urges May Day revellers to stay safe.

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) is urging people who attend the May Morning celebrations in Oxford to stay safe on Magdalen Bridge as the city celebrates the coming of spring with dancing, singing and general merriment.
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Ambulance in collision with tree on A337 Brockenhurst to Lyndhurst road Hampshire at 09.35am

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 morning.
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10 year old Emily’s 999 call helps to save her mother

With her father at work and her mother unable to get to the phone Emily calmly called 999 for help.
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£2000 donated to Crowthorne Community First Responders

Wellington College would like to thank the wonderful volunteers who helped at the charity fireworks event
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We urge organisations to install Public Access Defibrillators

Approximately 30,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest outside hospital and are treated by emergency medical services every year. If defibrillation is delivered promptly, survival rates as high as 75% can be achieved.
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Crowthorne Community First Responders donate defibrillator

The defibrillator is in a highly visible secure box on the wall of the Co-op in Crowthorne High Street. Members of the public can access it in the event of medical emergency
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New series of BBC Real Rescues featuring SCAS staff

Series 9 of Real Rescues will be broadcast at 11.30am by BBC 1 Monday to Friday for 4 weeks commencing Monday 11 March with each episode lasting 45 minutes.
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Priory Rise School ‘Choose Well'

The children were given an ambulance tour and fun literature explaining how parents should 'Choose Well' for themselves and their children.
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Melanie saves patient from diabetic coma

Melanie noticed that the patient, who had appeared to be fine now appeared increasingly confused and disorientated.
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Caring people caring for patients

Discovering what the Patient Transport Service role involves and what our patients think.
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