October Update
ged October 22nd, 2009
Hi Folks, This month has seen some changes to the way we are actioned to callouts. The Emergency Operations Centre that handles all of the 999 calls to the Ambulance Service in North Staffordshire and beyond has moved to new state of the art premises at Tollgate in Stafford. Instead of the old pager system we now receive text messages on a very smart but very complicated hand held radio which has the habit of bleeping at you all through the night. Teething problems we are assured!
Thank you to Jackie and Gary Bills from Cobbles in Longnor for a donation of £20 to help make up for the theft of our collecting box. We have also discovered the box from Longnor Post Office has walked! We now plan to empty the boxes very frequently and give a six monthly total. Hopefully this will mean there is never enough in the boxes to tempt the low life doing this.
Interviews by the Ambulance Service for potential Responders are coming up in November so if anyone out there thinks they could commit to the initial training, which is quite intensive over a twelve week period, and join us we would be thrilled to have you. Being a Responder equips you with a wide variety of skills and opportunities and is a big plus on any CV. We really, really need some new Responders to come forward in order to provide you with more cover, especially during the day time. So please think about it.
KEEP WELL and KEEP SAFE