AVICH & KILCHRENAN
COMMUNITY COUNCIL
SCOTTISH AMBULANCE SERVICE
FIRST RESPONDER SCHEME
Scotland is a country with large rural areas. The Scottish Ambulance Service performs extremely well in reaching set performance standards to most 999 calls. In your community, where lengthy distances to incidents exist, it is not always possible to achieve arrival within the critical 8-minute period.
This is where a volunteer First Responder can help not only the Scottish Ambulance Service, but directly benefit their own community.
A Community First Responder Scheme is made up from volunteers who live, or work, within a community or village, and have been trained to attend certain emergency 999 calls by the Scottish Ambulance Service, to provide emergency first aid, until an ambulance arrives.
If you have some free time and want to participate in providing a valuable service to your community or assist in establishing a Community First Responder Scheme, please come along to a meeting in Dalavich Community Hall on Monday, 12th November at 7.30 p.m.
The speaker for the evening will be Jeff Dawson, Community Resilience Manager for the Scottish Ambulance Service, South West Division.
Marilyn Henderson, 12th October 2007.
Secretary.
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