OPERATIONAL NOTE - PATIENT REUNION
You’re invited to send a reporter/photographer/film crew to a patient reunion in Ashington on Wednesday.
81 year-old John Young collapsed after suffering a heart attack in Newcastle in November. An off-duty nurse and four ambulance staff helped to save his life. John and his family wanted to meet them to thank them.
The reunion will be at:
9.45am Wednesday, February 13
Hatchmeadow, John Street, Ashington, N63 0SE
The reunion will take place at 10am in the communal room at Hatchmeadow which is a sheltered accommodation complex.
A news release will be issued and we will have photographs available after the reunion.
If you would like to come to the reunion or need more information please contact:
Mike Snowdon at mike.snowdon@neas.nhs.uk or ring 07559 918672
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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 280,00 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.