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B'ham Mail 3 Feb 11
Ambulance fleets across the country, including the West Midlands, are being revamped with wider stretchers and lifting gear to cope with the increasing number of fat patients, it has been reported.
Standard ambulances are being stocked with heavy-duty wheelchairs, stretchers and lifting cushions…
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B'ham Mail 17 Dec 10
Ambulance chiefs have taken the unprecedented step of urging people not to travel unless they have to following a sharp rise in the number of 999 callouts.
While much of the Midlands has avoided heavy falls of snow so far this week, roads and pavements have still become dangerous as temperatures fall and water turns to ice.
Calls to the Ambulance service in Birmingham and the Black Country for the first 12 hours of Friday were up 50% on a week ago, from 521 to 781…
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BBC News 1 Nov 10
West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust has announced a series of public meetings over its plan to become a foundation trust.
Foundation trusts have more freedom when it comes to both raising money and deciding how to spend it. The trust has been planning to become a foundation for the past two years…
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Amy Bowen Sutton Observer 29 Oct 10
Rumours that Walsall’s ambulance station could be closed as part of government cuts have been quashed this week.
The Advertiser received a note from an anonymous staff member at the site saying that the ambulance base on Leighswood Road in Aldridge was going to be closed in an effort to save cash, along with the base in Sutton Coldfield…
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Advertiser 8 Oct 10
A Walsall mechanic has decided to close his tool box for the final time after more than 30 years working for the same employer.
Dave Robertson has retired from West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) after a 37-year career.
The fleet manager, who was responsible for servicing and fixing ambulances, began his career as a mechanic at Walsall ambulance station in 1972 at the age of 18, after completing an apprenticeship…
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Express & Star 30 Sep 10
Ambulance workers in the West Midlands took almost four working weeks off sick last year, new figures revealed today.
At the same time complaints against West Midlands Ambulance Service soared by almost 60 per cent during 2009/10. The year has been described as one of the most challenging in the organisation’s history…
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BBC News 15 Sep 10
Three ambulance workers are attacked every week on average in the West Midlands, according to new figures. West Midlands Ambulance Service said 166 incidents were reported by staff in 2009/10.
A spokeswoman said it was “completely unacceptable” that staff should have to face violence and verbal abuse…
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Express & Star 8 Jun 10
More than a quarter of West Midlands ambulances took longer than the target eight minutes to reach “life-threatening” emergencies last year – despite an £11.8 million cash boost.
The service missed its target of 75 per cent of category A calls responded to within the benchmark limit, but bosses today said its figures for the months following the injection of new funds showed a dramatic improvement…
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B'ham Mail 11 May 10
West Midlands Ambulance Service has apologised after staff were asked to rate how “cool” Adolf Hitler was in a questionnaire. The survey was sent out to 4,000 employees as part of a £10,000 study to identify what made good leadership.
Respondents were asked to rate how “cool” 10 famous leaders were on a scale of one to five. Besides Hitler, the list included Gordon Brown, Richard Branson, Winston Churchill and Fabio Capello…
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Justine Halifax B'ham Mail 7 May 10
An Irish horse sports horse will soon be galloping to the rescue on one of the region’s largest country parks – as the latest recruit to West Midlands Ambulance Service.
Seven-year-old Chase and his owner Mark Bennett will be first to respond to 999 calls on Cannock Chase Country Park…