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- Apr 11, 2023
Scottish Ambulance Service Continues Record Recruitment
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) has recruited a record 1,388 staff and introduced 52 additional ambulances in the past three years...
- Oct 12, 2022
Record Recruitment for Scottish Ambulance Service
A record 540 paramedics, ambulance drivers, call handlers, and clinicians have been employed by the Scottish Ambulance Service in the...
- Mar 29, 2022
Record Number of Emergency Crews Recruited in Scotland
The Scottish Ambulance Service recruited a record number of frontline emergency staff last year, backed by £20 million of SNP Scottish...
- Sep 22, 2021
Additional £20 million Support for Scottish Ambulance Service
The SNP Government is investing an additional £20 million in the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) to help improve response times,...
- Sep 3, 2021
Almost 300 more Ambulance Staff with £20 million Investment
Almost 300 additional Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) staff are being recruited through a £20 million SNP Government funding injection...
- Jul 30, 2021
Ambulance Paramedics issue Life-saving Drug Overdose Kits
Almost two thirds of Scotland’s ambulance paramedics have now been trained in supplying Take-Home Naloxone (THN) to people who may...
- Jul 2, 2021
£10,000 Bursary for Paramedic Students
Hundreds of paramedic students in Scotland will receive an annual bursary of £10,000 each from the SNP Government. An estimated 668...
- Jan 7, 2021
Naloxone Take-home Kits distributed across Scotland to People at Risk of Overdose
Take-home Naloxone will be given to people at high risk of accidental overdoses, in a move designed to reduce the number of drug deaths....
- Jul 3, 2020
Scottish Ambulance Service to take over Mobile COVID-19 Testing Units
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) will take over the running of Scotland’s coronavirus (COVID-19) mobile testing units from the start...
- Apr 14, 2020
Suspected Stroke or Heart Attack? Call 999!
Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland and the British Heart Foundation have launched campaigns to remind people that, despite the COVID-19...
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