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The contribution of staff at South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) has been recognised as more patients than ever survive major trauma. Since 2012, patients with suspected “major trauma” have been transported directly to Major Trauma...
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 severe pain throughout his chest and arms. With Steve’s pain...
Like NHS 111 services up and down the country, the NHS 111 service provided by SCAS across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire is available 24-7, 365 days a year. Our service is provided by highly trained call handlers, supported by healthcare...
It’s not always possible to deliver the outcome we, the patient and their family and friends want every single time we’re called. Understandably, as an emergency service, the very nature of the incidents our crews get called to are of a serious and often...
Background This trial, led by the University of Warwick, aims to improve the outcome for patients suffering cardiac arrest (when the heart stops beating) outside of the hospital environment. Of the 30,000 people experiencing this catastrophic event each year, no more...