Scottish Ambulance News

04 Sep 2019

PFPI volunteers needed

PFPI volunteers needed: FactsAndFigures

Are you interested in helping us to improve Ambulance Services in your community?

The Scottish Ambulance Service West Region Team cover Argyll, Clyde, Dumfries and Galloway, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Arran and Glasgow.  Do you live in one of these places?  Then maybe you can help us?

We want to hear from the public we serve.  You don’t have to have used the Ambulance Service before, you just need to want to help us to make improvements to our service moving forward.

We want to ensure that we are giving our patients across the West the best possible care and that we are meeting their needs and expectations. This is where you can help.

We want people to work with us as part of our ‘Patient Focus Public Involvement’ (PFPI)  group to ensure the voice of patients and the public is heard in everything we do. We will meet up to four times per year (for about three hours).  This will be in a central location somewhere in the West.

Whether or not you’ve used the Scottish Ambulance Service before – emergency services or Patient Transport – you can help us shape what we do in the future.

We cannot pay for attendance, but we do pay agreed expenses.

We pride ourselves on being a caring and proactive service and we need your help.

Please email scotamb.pfpi@nhs.net with a bit about yourself and what interests you in a role with us.

Contact Information

Chris Purnell
chris.purnell@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.