15 Dec 2023
Media invite - SAS Integrated Clinical Hub
The Scottish Ambulance Service is holding a press call on Monday where Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care, will hear of the success of the Scottish Ambulance Service’s Integrated Clinical Hub.
The Hub provides assessments for all patients who are initially triaged as non-immediately life threatening and may benefit from a further virtual consultation and referral to other services in the community, rather than unnecessary trips to A&E.
Around 18,000 ambulance journeys have been avoided in the past four months thanks to the new hub, which was launched last December. A press release will be sent out on the day.
The media will be invited to attend between 11.30am and 12.30 where there will be an opportunity for media interviews.
Invited media will have a chance to interview:
- Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care
- Michael Dickson OBE, Chief Executive of the Scottish Ambulance Service
Grateful if you can RSVP by 4pm today.
Details
Where: Scottish Ambulance Service West ACC Caledonia House, 140 Fifty Pitches Road Cardonald, Glasgow G51 4EB
When: 11:30-12:30 December 18, Monday
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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