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Call Count February 2017

During February we attended a total of 11 calls as follows:

Breathing Problems	2
Cardiac	0
Stroke/Neuro	0
Medical	0
Bleeding	0
Chest Pain	1
Trauma	0
Allergic Reaction	1
Stand down	3
Abdominal Pain	1
Other	3
Total Calls	11

Call Count January 2017

During January we had a total of 15 calls including:

Analysis Count
Breathing Problems	2
Cardiac	0
Stroke/Neuro	0
Medical	1
Bleeding	0
Chest Pain	1
Trauma	1
Allergic Reaction	1
Stand down	2
Abdominal Pain	0
Uncategorised	10
Total Calls	18

Monday 9 January 2017 we kindly received a grant of £1000 from Persimmon Homes Community Champion Scheme as a match funding for a new Responder Kit. This kit will enable our scheme to provide more hours on-call and support a greater number of volunteers. Each kit contains life-saving equipment including a Automated External Defibrillator, Oxygen and dressings, along with a Phone and Pager with GPS tracking linked to the Ambulance Emergency Operations Centre.

Call Count December 2016

We had 22 calls during december including:

Allergic reaction

Fitting

Fall

Heart attack/cardiac x4

Medical illness x3

Collapse x3

Chest Pain x4

Diabetic

Unconscious x2

Asthma

Breathing difficulties

Call count November 2016

We had 11 calls during November (6 were on 1 day!)

Calls included:

Breathing difficulties

Chest Pains

Possible sepsis

Possible meningitis

Fitting

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Call count October 2016

1x Red call for chest pain (cardiac)

3x Red call for breathing difficulties

1x stand down (re-routed to another call)

Paul & Kirsty staff the DRV

Paul and Kirsty can be found out and about on the Reading Dynamic Response Vehicle each month as part of the extended team of CFR volunteers from across the Reading area who provide their time to man this vehicle. The DRV carries additional clinical resources to incidents which aren’t available to all CFRs.

Donate your new fiver

Why not donate your first new five pound note to the South Central Ambulance Charity to help support your local CFRs.

Did you know:
– It costs £10 to supply a T-Shirt uniform to a CFR
– Replacement AED pads cost £18
– A phone and pager for a year cost £200
– To train and equip a CFR costs £2000
– To purchase a dedicated scheme vehicle costs £10000-£20000 depending upon specification

Call Count September 2016

We have attended the following in our area

1 Red call for paediatric breathing difficulties
1 Red call for breathing difficulties

2 Red calls for head injury

1 Red call for allergic reaction

Whilst out on the Dynamic Response Vehicle we have attended:

1 Red call for breathing difficulties

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