01 Dec 2020

Defib Donation

Thanks very much to Taylor Wimpey West Scotland for donating a Public Access Defibrillator (PAD) to the Bothwell and Uddingston Community First Responder Group.

As part of a joint initiative with the British Heart Foundation, the home builder is donating PADS to communities across the UK.

Deryck Schendell, regional health and safety advisor for Taylor Wimpey in Scotland, said: “It’s so important to us that we give something back to the communities in which we are building.”

Kaitlyn Mitchell (pictured), a trainee paramedic and volunteer with the Bothwell and Uddingston CFRs, said: “We can’t thank Taylor Wimpey and BHF enough for this defibrillator.”

Contact Information

Edward Earl
edward.earl@nhs.scot

The Scottish Ambulance Service employs over 5000 highly skilled staff.
We provide an emergency ambulance service to a population of over 5 million people, serving all mainland and island communities.
Our Patient Transport Service also takes around 1 million patients to and from hospital.
Each year, we respond to over 1.5 million calls for assistance.
Over 600,000 of these are emergency and unscheduled incidents.
We transfer around 90,000 patients between hospitals.
Our air ambulance service undertakes around 3,500 missions.
Our ScotSTAR service transfers 2,500 of Scotland's most seriously ill patients each year.
We are assisted by over 1,200 volunteers, such as our community first responders.

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