UK WILDFIRE CONFERENCE GENERATES GLOBAL INTEREST
The leading lights from the world of wildfire have been announced as the keynote speakers at this year’s UK Wildfire Conference, which will be held in Aberdeen on 12-13 November. Keynote addresses will be given by Marc Castellnou, Commander in the Catalan Fire...
HOSPITALS SIGN JOINT CONTRACT FOR NEW ELECTRONIC PATIENT REPORTS
The University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) and Chesterfield Royal Hospital (CRH) have signed a joint contract for a new electronic patient record system (EPR) provided by Nervecentre – the first new EPR for the NHS in 20...
MULTI-AGENCY APPROACH TO PREPARE FOR WILDFIRE SEASON IN ENGLAND’S NORTHEAST
Coastguard, fire, mountain rescue and other agencies recently gathered on Lindisfarne off the coast of Northumberland in the northeast of England to test tactics to deal with wildfires and protect this area of outstanding natural beauty in the coming months....
NATIONAL PROGRAMME GEARS UP FOR ZERO-EMISSIONS EMERGENCY RESPONSE VEHICLES
The East of England Ambulance Service (EEAST) is now part of a national programme to test zero-emissions emergency response vehicles, and the electric vehicle (EV) trials will be shortly due to shift up a gear soon. Covering six counties, the 7,500sqm of EEAST’s...
SCOTLAND’S INTEGRATED CLINICAL HUB CONTINUES TO SAVE THOUSANDS OF AMBULANCE JOURNEYS
Over 23,000 ambulance journeys have been avoided over the past five months alone in Scotland, due to the Integrated Clinical Hub (ICH), which was rolled out by the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) in December 2022. The hub, co-located with the SAS ambulance control...
DEFENCE AGENCIES COLLABORATE ON MAJOR CONCUSSION RESEARCH PROJECT
The Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, the University of Birmingham and the US Department of Defence will lead a major research programme involving hundreds of people across the UK in a bid to transform the way concussion is...
NORTHERN IRELAND’S INDEPENDENT REVIEWER OF JUSTICE AND SECURITY
Criminology lecturer Dr Jonny Byrne who has been appointed as Northern Ireland’s independent reviewer of justice and security and national security arrangements, will play a key role in providing confidence that the powers are being closely scrutinised and used...
POLICE CARE UK SIGN WELLBEING PARTNERSHIP WITH METFRIENDLY
Police Care UK has signed a new partnership with Metfriendly after the police family financial experts made a significant donation to the charity’s first annual Christmas appeal last year. The unique partnership means that both organisations will now assist with the...
NEW UK STUDY ON IMPACT OF RTC RESCUE ON THE PUBLIC
Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) has commissioned psychology researchers at the University of Kent to conduct a study - the ‘Psychology of Rescue’ - to look at how actions or inactions may impact the psychology of those...
FIRST ‘POLICE SPECIFIC TRAUMATIC EVENTS CHECKLIST’ IN THE WORLD
Police Care UK launched the world’s first ever Police Traumatic Events Checklist after close work with the Police Federation of England and Wales and the University of Cambridge, following its campaign to have the PTEC system initiated to record trauma incidents in a...
BRITISH RED CROSS LAUNCH MOROCCO EARTHQUAKE APPEAL
The British Red Cross has launched an emergency Morocco Earthquake Appeal to help support people affected on the ground, with local authorities reporting that more than 3,000 people have died, with thousands now critically injured. On Friday 8 September (11pm local...
UK DEPLOYS SEARCH AND RESCUE TEAM TO ASSIST EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE IN MOROCCO
A team of search and rescue specialists has been deployed to Morocco to assist with Moroccan led rescue efforts, after the government of Morocco accepted the UK offer for assistance in the wake of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake which claimed over 2,000 lives. The team...
