Live streaming cameras to improve air ambulance care

Live streaming cameras to improve air ambulance care

South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) paramedics and local hospital consultants who work on the Thames Valley Air Ambulance are now equipped with live streaming cameras when they are sent to incidents. This new innovation allows staff working on the Helicopter...
Philadelphia friends

Philadelphia friends

Julia, one of our paramedics based in Oxford City, is currently on holiday visiting friends in Philadelphia. While there she took time out from running up the Rocky Steps of the Museum of Art to go on a ride along with Philadelphia Fire Department’s Emergency Medical...
Send a lifesaving Valentine’s Day card this year

Send a lifesaving Valentine’s Day card this year

South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) has created a special online Valentine’s Day card that can be sent to someone you care for this year with the promise that you will look after the recipient’s heart by learning how to do cardiopulmonary...
New dynamic response vehicles for Reading and Bracknell

New dynamic response vehicles for Reading and Bracknell

Following a five-year, £30,000 fundraising campaign, two brand new dynamic response vehicles were formally handed over by Sonning Common Vauxhall to local community first responders this morning at South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust’s (SCAS) Reading...
Coach Crash – M40 – Friday 30 December

Coach Crash – M40 – Friday 30 December

Media Statement We were called at 02.45 this morning (30/12/16) following reports of a coach operated by the Oxford Bus Company having come off the slip road on the M40 northbound at Junction 7 (Milton Common, Thame). South Central Ambulance Service declared this a...
Back to the floor

Back to the floor

One Saturday a few weekends ago, Paramedic Dee Cowan welcomed Nic Morecroft, Lead Community Response Manager, and Tony Peters, Head of Emergency Operations Centre – South, for a ‘back to the floor’ experience. Nic and Tony joined Dee on her 12 hour shift from Reading...
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