David Gallagher | South Central Ambulance Service

Restart a Heart Day 2024 a training and fundraising success

Oct 31, 2024 | Members e-Bulletin, News, Stakeholder eBulletin

World Restart a Heart Day was a resounding success with thousands of people trained in lifesaving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and thousands raised for the South Central Ambulance Charity. For the first time since the COVID pandemic, SCAS Charity volunteers and...

Wendy and Dave visit Reading Ambulance Station to say thank you to their lifesaving team

Oct 30, 2024 | Members e-Bulletin, News, Stakeholder eBulletin

Wendy Mayne and her husband, Dave, recently visited Reading Ambulance Station to say thank you to the team that saved Wendy’s life when she suffered a cardiac arrest in March last year. Wendy and Dave had recently returned from a holiday to Tenerife, and on the...

Dash cam released following ambulance collision

Oct 10, 2024 | News

We are sharing an appeal from Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary. Were you, or someone you know, driving on the A339 near Alton on Friday, 20 September? If so, please read on. +++POLICE APPEAL+++POLICE APPEAL+++ “We are appealing for witnesses and dash...

Over 10,000 new lifesavers to be trained on World Restart a Heart Day

Oct 9, 2024 | Members e-Bulletin, News, Stakeholder eBulletin

For the first time since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) will be going into over 50 schools on World Restart a Heart Day, Wednesday 16 October, to train the next generation of lifesavers. Survival rates...

Wife woken up by husband’s ‘snoring’ when he had a cardiac arrest in his sleep

Sep 27, 2024 | Members e-Bulletin, News, Stakeholder eBulletin

Basingstoke resident, Barry Crawford, visited the local ambulance station at the end of last month to say thank you to the team that saved his life last November. It was very early in the morning of 7 November 2023 when Barry’s wife, Alison, was woken by what she...