12 Dec 2023
Media invite - SAS Annual Review
The Scottish Ambulance Service is holding its Annual Review tomorrow (Wednesday 13 December 2023).
An NHS Annual Review is a formal event where health boards are publicly reviewed by Scottish Ministers on their achievements and challenges over the past year.
The Service’s Annual Review will be chaired by Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care. Tom Steele, Chair of the Scottish Ambulance and Michael Dickson OBE, Chief Executive of the Scottish Ambulance Service will also be in attendance.
The public meeting will take place between 10:20 and 11:20 am. Following this, there will be an opportunity for media interviews.
Details
Where: Scottish Ambulance Service, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9EB.
When: 10:10 am. It is a public meeting so media are welcome to attend the full event if they wish. Please note that any media interviews will only take place following conclusion of the public meeting at 11:20 am.
How: The meeting is taking place in an NHS building and space is limited, so if you would like to attend, please provide your name and media outlet in advance by emailing sas.press@nhs.scot
Contact Information
Scottish Ambulance Press Office
sas.press@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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