24 May 2024
Hawick frontline staff to appear on latest episode of Paramedics on Scene
Frontline Hawick staff members from the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) will appear on a new series of Paramedics on Scene, which airs on Sunday.
Gregor Sharp, Colin Ferrie, both Paramedics, and Mya Pearce, Student Paramedic, feature alongside SAS’s East and North Ambulance Control Centres (ACC), and Peterhead and Oban frontline crews.
The Hawick staff said: “Our patients regularly mention to us that they like watching the real-life ambulance TV programmes, so when given the chance we therefore wanted to represent and show our working area to the rest of Scotland and also showcase the role of the Scottish university student paramedics on placement in their future working environment "
In the episode, an ambulance crew must determine if a woman experiencing strong chest pain is having a heart attack, a woman suffers a severe allergic reaction after she’s stung by a bee and call handlers manage a scene over the phone as they guide a worried caller through chest compressions until an ambulance arrives.
Season Five of Paramedics on Scene is on BBC Scotland at 9pm on Sunday and repeated at 8pm on Tuesday. It is also available on BBC iPlayer
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Scottish Ambulance Press Office
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Notes to editors
Hawick team pictured with Firecrest camera operator Phil Goldie
- 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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