West Midlands Ambulance Services
West Midlands Ambulance Services
The Second largest ambulance services in United Kingdom. They started their Ambulance service 40 years ago. Now they have state of the art Emergency Medical Services and Paramedica Training Course. Their response rate is to reach the desired destination within 8 minutes in 90% of the times. They have more than 1450 staff and handle 1200 emergency call per day. They also have global Positioning Services (GPS) and satellite tracking system.
- Million annual budget
- 1450 staff
- 740 Clinical Staff
- 24/7 provision of Emergency and non- Emergency care
- In excess of 390,000 calls for emergency assistance per annum
- 450,000 Patient Transport movement
- Sophisticated Predictive Analysis
- Care Provision for 6,600km2
- 2nd largest Ambulance service in England
- 3 Helicopter / Air Ambulances
- 250 Emergency / Urgent Vehicles
- 21 Special Service Vehicles
- 10 Motor Bikes / & First responders
- Their Ambulances are equipped with
- Defibrillators / cardiac monitor
- Oxygen
- Intravenous drip
- Spinal and immobilization splints
- Variety of drugs for medical and traumatic emergencies.
- Able to treat and stablise patient before movement to the hospital without unnecessary delay.
- Quick thinking and decisive, yet, provide a clam and reassuring environment.
- Highly trained staff in all aspects of pre hospital emergency care.
The west midland ambulance services team visited Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune and started the Pre-hospital Course, now the Course is running successfully and regular guidance is given by the west midland ambulance services.
Subsequently a team of six doctors selected by Dr.Sanjay Vhora from Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune were sent to UK for training
DR Rajeshwari Vhora & Dr Anand Tiwari were sent to USA where they were trained in EMT -B & passed the NREMT Exams & became member of NAEMSE ( National Association of EMS Educator) in 2007 Present EMS course is designed with Experience from USA