Ambulance UK February 2024
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said: “Safety is central to the<br />
initial care during any medical<br />
the Trust’s strategic priorities, and<br />
research on our website:<br />
East of England <strong>Ambulance</strong><br />
respecting their wishes to be<br />
road generally because the<br />
responsible and trustworthy<br />
emergencies.<br />
the Institute also has a number<br />
https://www.yas.nhs.uk/our-<br />
Service NHS Trust (EEAST) is<br />
cared for at home.<br />
paramedics working with us are<br />
adoption of AI.<br />
of key partnerships in place with<br />
services/additional-services/<br />
leading the way in joining up<br />
telling their colleagues about<br />
“SAINTS will bring together PhD<br />
students from a broad spectrum<br />
of industries to deliver a new<br />
generation of experts who make<br />
leading contributions to the safety<br />
of AI.<br />
“Research will focus on risk<br />
reduction in sectors where safety<br />
is paramount, like healthcare,<br />
whilst taking a broader view<br />
of safety in its technical, legal,<br />
ethical and societal context.<br />
“We will help students navigate<br />
the broader AI research<br />
environment and become future<br />
engineers, leaders, entrepreneurs<br />
and policymakers in AI safety.”<br />
Professor Ibrahim Habli,<br />
Director of SAINTS CDT, added:<br />
“From autumn <strong>2024</strong>, we will<br />
open our doors to the first<br />
cohort of doctoral students<br />
undertaking trailblazing<br />
work in AI development and<br />
safety assurance.<br />
“This is an exciting development,<br />
and we value support from the<br />
Welsh <strong>Ambulance</strong> Service in<br />
helping this become a reality.<br />
East Midlands Railway (EMR)<br />
staff at Sheffield Railway<br />
Station have joined forces<br />
with Yorkshire <strong>Ambulance</strong><br />
Service NHS Trust to train<br />
colleagues as Community<br />
First Responders (CFRs). They<br />
are now equipped with skills<br />
to provide vital care, comfort<br />
and reassurance to anyone<br />
suffering a medical emergency<br />
before an ambulance arrives<br />
on scene.<br />
Colleagues from the supervisor,<br />
platform services and customer<br />
information teams have<br />
participated in the three-day CFR<br />
course which includes training<br />
on cardiopulmonary resuscitation<br />
(CPR), operating a defibrillator<br />
and administering oxygen.<br />
Yorkshire <strong>Ambulance</strong> Service<br />
has provided the EMR team with<br />
a CFR kit bag which includes an<br />
automated external defibrillator<br />
(AED); this is an additional<br />
resource to the four AEDs already<br />
available on platforms.<br />
“We’re looking forward to rolling<br />
the CFR course out to more<br />
station staff, so that when<br />
someone falls ill or becomes<br />
injured, we’ll be on hand to<br />
provide the best possible firstresponse<br />
care.”<br />
Warren Bostock, Community<br />
Defibrillation Officer with<br />
Yorkshire <strong>Ambulance</strong> Service,<br />
said: “We’re really pleased to be<br />
partnering with EMR to deliver<br />
our training to their colleagues in<br />
Sheffield, and particularly in such<br />
a busy station setting.<br />
“CFRs make an extremely valuable<br />
contribution to their communities,<br />
and anyone using Sheffield<br />
Railway Station has the added<br />
benefit of CFRs working on site.<br />
We know that in many medical<br />
emergencies, such as a heart<br />
attack, breathing difficulties or a<br />
collapse, the first few minutes are<br />
critical. If effective treatment can<br />
be given within those first minutes,<br />
lives can be saved.”<br />
Yorkshire <strong>Ambulance</strong><br />
Service launches<br />
new Research<br />
Institute<br />
A new Research Institute<br />
local NHS Trusts and universities,<br />
which have supported the<br />
recent expansion. Through both<br />
the new leadership posts and<br />
partnerships, the Institute is<br />
moving forward with designing<br />
and developing new research<br />
projects that will have a real-world<br />
impact on patients.<br />
The Institute will focus on<br />
growing its research portfolio to<br />
address the needs of ambulance<br />
service patients, working across<br />
boundaries to ensure that patients<br />
are offered the best, evidenceinformed<br />
care and benefit the<br />
communities that it serves.<br />
Dr Julian Mark, Executive Medical<br />
Director at Yorkshire <strong>Ambulance</strong><br />
Service NHS Trust, said: “The<br />
research that we do can drive a<br />
noticeable difference in patent<br />
care - it can improve the quality,<br />
safety, efficiency and effectiveness<br />
of healthcare. We are proud of our<br />
partnership arrangements with<br />
local organisations that allow us<br />
to co-develop our expertise, and<br />
who support our ambition to grow<br />
research for the benefit of patients<br />
in our care.<br />
“Our Research Institute continues<br />
to deliver important research,<br />
whilst also developing our staff<br />
research-support/.<br />
Yorkshire <strong>Ambulance</strong> Service<br />
is always open to new<br />
collaborations that support<br />
the organisation to innovatively<br />
deliver high quality care. The<br />
YAS Research Institute can<br />
be contacted at<br />
yas.research@nhs.net.<br />
Paramedics and<br />
hospice join forces<br />
to support end-of-life<br />
patients at home<br />
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the skills of emergency and<br />
end-of-life care professionals<br />
in the community by<br />
embedding its paramedics in<br />
an Essex hospice in a scheme<br />
that thought to be one of the<br />
first of its kind in England.<br />
Three paramedics are working in<br />
rotation between the ambulance<br />
service and St Helena Hospice’s<br />
SinglePoint – a 24/7 helpline and<br />
rapid response service for people<br />
receiving end-of-life care and<br />
support at home across northeast<br />
Essex.<br />
The split role offers a unique<br />
opportunity for collaborative<br />
working, while sharing skills<br />
and knowledge between the<br />
organisations, and focuses<br />
on helping end-of-life patients<br />
get the help they need, while<br />
Nicky Coombes, Hospice in the<br />
Home Matron at St Helena, said:<br />
“For our patients, it’s about<br />
keeping them in the place where<br />
they want to be cared for and<br />
giving them support so they can<br />
remain at home and are less likely<br />
to be conveyed to hospital.”<br />
“Having the paramedics on the<br />
team has added value to our<br />
SinglePoint service.<br />
“Their skill sets are different so<br />
they can go out and do their<br />
assessment and diagnostics,<br />
and if a patient has fallen, they<br />
can often do wound care there<br />
and then.<br />
“We’re now getting more calls<br />
from paramedics out on the<br />
what we can do at St Helena,<br />
whereas their first thought<br />
previously would have been<br />
to take the patient directly<br />
to hospital.<br />
“The paramedics feel more<br />
comfortable having conversations<br />
about advance care planning and<br />
recognising what’s needed for<br />
patients in the dying process.<br />
Rachel Hunt, End of Life Care<br />
lead for EEAST, said: “Having<br />
our clinicians embedded within<br />
St Helena Hospice’s SinglePoint<br />
system means the nursing team<br />
can benefit from our staff’s training<br />
in making swift assessment. This<br />
allows them to assess and deal<br />
with many patient’s non-urgent<br />
issues – often without the need<br />
to call an ambulance or transport<br />
them to hospital.<br />
“This will strengthen our existing<br />
relationship with WAST and build<br />
future collaborations to ensure<br />
the trustworthy and responsible<br />
The training has been completed<br />
by four colleagues, and the<br />
station will aim to have at least<br />
one trained CFR on site at all<br />
times. Five additional colleagues<br />
has been launched by<br />
Yorkshire <strong>Ambulance</strong><br />
Service NHS Trust (YAS) to<br />
strengthen the organisation’s<br />
ambition to lead and deliver<br />
to be able to lead and direct<br />
research that is meaningful for<br />
our unique context. It puts us in<br />
a position to deliver and carry<br />
out research that addresses the<br />
development and adoption of AI<br />
will be trained as CFRs in<br />
ambulance research.<br />
needs, priorities and realities of<br />
in this vital area of healthcare.”<br />
January <strong>2024</strong>.<br />
everyday business at Yorkshire<br />
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East Midlands<br />
Railway staff based<br />
at Sheffield partner<br />
with Yorkshire<br />
<strong>Ambulance</strong> Service<br />
for first responder<br />
training<br />
Dave Meredith, Customer<br />
Services Director at East<br />
Midlands Railway, said:<br />
“Sheffield is a very busy<br />
railway station with 8-10 million<br />
passengers passing through<br />
every year. The safety of<br />
passengers is our utmost priority<br />
and this scheme means that<br />
we are better trained to provide<br />
The Trust has a strong track<br />
record in delivering high-quality<br />
research projects that have<br />
changed how ambulance<br />
services care for patients, and<br />
the new Institute aims to build on<br />
these successes.<br />
Recruitment of specialist staff<br />
into a number of key research<br />
leadership posts supports one of<br />
<strong>Ambulance</strong> Service.<br />
“We remain a trusted partner for<br />
research and we will continue<br />
to work with higher education<br />
institutions and NHS provider<br />
organisations, as well as<br />
welcoming new partnerships.”<br />
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