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Respects paid by ambulance service staff to servicemen and women this Remembrance Day
Staff at the North East Ambulance Service will pay their respects to servicemen and women at Remembrance Sunday and Remembrance Day events across the country this weekend.

North East Ambulance Service Chief Executive Helen Ray Retirement
North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) chief executive, Helen Ray, has formally announced her retirement from her post at the end of March 2025, after 42 years working in the NHS.

Ambulance Service appoints new Chair
North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Professor Stuart Corbridge as its new Chair.

NEAS delivers lifesaving CPR skills to over 3,500 people across the North East
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’s staff wellbeing initiative shortlisted for national award
North East Ambulance Service’s wellbeing support programme, NEAS Mental Maintenance, has been named as a finalist in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards as part of the staff wellbeing category.

Looking back at the last year with North East Ambulance Service
North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) next week. Registrations to attend the AGM close this Friday (6 September).

Ambulance service recognised as one of country’s top 100 apprenticeship employers
North East Ambulance Service has been recognised by the government as one of the country’s top apprenticeship employers for the third year running.

Joint volunteer initiative between North East Ambulance Service and RAF Boulmer comes to an end
North East Ambulance Service and Royal Air Force Boulmer has together responded to over 2800 x999 emergency calls since 2004 in a joint initiative to serve the region.

A 4lb 11oz leap year baby born at 31 weeks is reunited with the ambulance team who helped ensure a safe arrival
North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) crew and call handler reunite with baby Louis and his family five months after he was delivered prematurely at 31 weeks.

Ambulance service celebrates graduation of its first cohort of paramedic apprentices
Today, the North East Ambulance Service’s (NEAS) first ever cohort of paramedic apprentices graduate from their Paramedic Practice (BSc, Hons) degrees from Teesside University.

Ambulance workers receive Queen’s Medal for their contribution to emergency services
This week, seven colleagues from the North East Ambulance Service were awarded with the Queen’s Medal at a ceremony at Gosforth Park Hotel in Newcastle.

Ambulance crews move into co-located fire station in North Tyneside
This month, North East Ambulance Service crews moved into Wallsend Community Fire Station in North Tyneside, alongside Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service (TWFRS) colleagues.