NEASUS – the subsidiary fleet arm of the North East Ambulance Service - has opened a new workshop in Blaydon

NEASUS – the subsidiary fleet arm of the North East Ambulance Service - has opened a new workshop in Blaydon, employing ten new staff who will be servicing trailers for SRL: the UK’s only manufacturer to sell and hire traffic light equipment for hire to the traffic management industry.

The new site in Blaydon launched last week with a limited attendance from the NEASUS Board and some key staff reflecting current Covid restrictions. Also in attendance was the main NEASUS client, SRL. They have the UK’s largest hire fleet of portable and temporary traffic lights and pedestrian signals.

Graham Tebbutt, managing director of NEASUS said: “It’s a really exciting time to be able to expand our business and to be able to support clients such as SRL with the high-quality fleet services for which we are already known.”

North East ambulance chief executive Helen Ray said: “I was really pleased to be able to open up our new workshop at Blaydon. The development of our subsidiary will, over time, see us being able to reinvest in our core services and that can only be a very positive result.”

SRL is proud to be keeping their trailer servicing in the region in partnership with the ambulance service.


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About the 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 2,900 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 2020/21 we answered more than 1.3m emergency 999 and NHS 111 calls, with more than 260,000 patients taken to hospital, more than 34,000 patients treated and discharged over the phone and more than 125,000 patients treated and discharged at home. We responded to more than 28,000 C1 serious and life-threatening incidents in less than 15 minutes.