Public invited to share their views with ambulance service
Members of the public are invited to air their views about the ambulance service at a public Board meeting in Berwick later this month.
The North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) Trust Board will hold its next meeting at Berwick Parish Church at 12.30pm on Thursday, 26 October.
Although Board meetings are held in public they are not public meetings. There is an opportunity for members of the public to ask questions but time is restricted, given that this forms part of the formal structured meeting.
In order to ensure members of the local community are given the opportunity to have their say, NEAS is hosting a workshop before the meeting starts, from 10.30am-11.30am.
There will be a short presentation followed by a question and answer session.
All are welcome to attend, but are asked to inform Trust Secretary Jennifer Boyle of their attendance beforehand either by emailing jennifer.boyle@neas.nhs.uk or calling 0191 430 2001.
Lunch is not provided and anyone wishing to stay for the Board meeting is advised to bring their own lunch.
The agenda and papers for the Board meeting will be available in the run up to the meeting at www.neas.nhs.uk/about-us/board-papers/board-papers
North East Ambulance Service chairman Ash Winter said: “We are part of the community and it is important to us to take our monthly board meetings out on the road to give members of the public the chance to hear what is happening with their ambulance service.
“We know there is great strength of feeling about the ambulance service in Berwick and the wider community and so wanted to ensure anyone wishing to come along had the chance to ask questions and speak to our Board members directly.”
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For more information, please contact the NEAS press office on 0191 430 2099.
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 NHS 111 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 2016/17 the service answered over 1 million emergency 999 and NHS 111 calls, responded to almost 300,00 incidents that resulted in a patient being taken to hospital, treated and discharged 24,000 patients with telephone advice and treated and discharged 92,141 patients at home. In the same year, emergency care crews responded to 126,673 Red incidents within national target of 8 minutes and completed 717,315 patient transport journeys.