Press Releases
New online NHS site is first and best port of call for help with coronavirus symptoms
Top clinicians are issuing advice to help reduce the spread of infection as the country moves into the ‘delay’ phase of its response to Covid-19. Following the Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday (12 March), people worried about symptoms are being told by the...
Public Hearts Scheme launched across the Thames Valley
South Central Ambulance Service is supporting the Public Hearts Scheme, which fittingly launched in Reading on Valentine's Day (14 February). The Public Hearts Scheme, which aims to increase the public’s access to life saving automated external defibrillators (AEDs),...
Coronavirus: Stakeholder Briefing – Thursday, 13 February
On Wednesday 12 February, guests of Kents Hill Park Hotel were given the results of the swab tests that were undertaken on their arrival and all swab results were negative. This indicates that it is unlikely that any of the guests have coronavirus. All guests will...
Coronavirus: Stakeholder Briefing – Sunday, 9 February, 2020
Approximately 118 people returning from Wuhan in China have arrived at Kents Hill Park in Milton Keynes where they will stay for the next 14 days. Men, women and children arrived at the 300-bed hotel facility at 10.15am on Sunday, February 9, in eight coaches. All...
British citizens flown from China to be monitored in Milton Keynes on arrival
Around 150 British Citizens are being flown from Wuhan City in China, the epicentre of the current outbreak of Novel Coronavirus, back to the United Kingdom on Sunday 9 February. Everyone being repatriated will be assessed before boarding the plane in China, monitored...
Medication stolen from ambulance in Southampton
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) is appealing for information to help the police find a man who stole medication from one of the Trust’s ambulances on Thursday, 23 January. Towards the end of a night shift, an ambulance crew had been sent to...
999 service hits all response time targets over Christmas and New Year 2019/20
Thanks to the hard work and dedication of all its staff and volunteers working over the busy Christmas and New Year period, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) is delighted to announce that it met all its national response time targets in the...
Winter Woollies Appeal for Oxford’s homeless
Susan Baker, a Paramedic, and her husband Pete, a Technician, who are both based at South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust’s (SCAS) Didcot Resource Centre, have again organised a Winter Woollies Appeal for the homeless of Oxford this year following the...
NHS England funding secured for SOS Service
Thanks to funding provided by NHS England, the Oxford SOS Service – operated by South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) – returns to the city centre this weekend to help NHS and other emergency services cope with the peak winter demand. The SOS...