Press Releases

North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) is supporting Restart a Heart Day. In the last year, NEAS community resuscitation officers have trained just under 3,500 staff, college and school students, businesses and community groups across the North East.  

North East Ambulance Service is targeting five areas across Sunderland to expand its army of volunteer community first responders in a bid to save more lives.

We are looking for community first responders (CFRs) in your area.

North East Ambulance Service is looking for more community first responders to save more lives 

North East Ambulance Service has trained medical students from Newcastle University as part of a first responder scheme

North East Ambulance Service is targeting seven areas across the region to expand its army of volunteer community first responders in a bid to save more lives.

North East Ambulance Service is expanding its army of volunteer community first responders in a bid to save more lives and support more patients across the region.

North East Ambulance Service is the fifth in the country to turn the British Heart Foundation’s The Circuit of community based defibrillators live in the North East.

NHS Charities Together grant will help support community first responder schemes in the North East

The North East public is being urged to get hands on and learn life-saving CPR as a new survey finds over a third of the region’s adults didn’t know the difference between a cardiac arrest and a heart attack, and didn’t know how to do CPR.