CPR event invite: Restart a Heart Day
What: To mark national Restart a Heart Day, staff and volunteers from the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) will be visiting organisations across the region to train members of the public in CPR.
Over 100 students will be trained in CPR at Tyne Metropolitan College as part of the mass CPR event.
56 organisations are taking part over two weeks with the aim of training over 6,000 people in life saving CPR.
Who: Alex Mason, NEAS Community Development Officer
Where: Tyne Metropolitan College Coast Road Campus (Wallsend), Battle Hill Drive, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear, NE28 9NL
When: Wednesday 16 October 2019 at 9am
To register to attend, please contact Laura Watson, laura.watson@neas.nhs.uk,
Tel: 07720 240355.
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For more information, contact the NEAS press office on 07559 918672 or email publicrelations@neas.nhs.uk
About North East Ambulance Service
North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (NEAS) covers 3,200 square miles across the North East region. It employs more than 2,600 staff and serves a population of 2.7 million people by handling all NHS111 and 999 calls for the region, operating patient transport and ambulance response services, delivering training for communities and commercial audiences and providing medical support cover at events.
In 2017/18 the service answered over 1.4 million emergency 999 and NHS 111 calls, responded to 280,000 incidents that resulted in a patient being taken to hospital, treated and discharged 27,000 patients with telephone advice and treated and discharged over 100,000 patients at home. In the same year, clinical crews responded to 126,746 of our highest priority patients within the national targets and scheduled care crews completed almost 580,000 patient transport journeys.