09 Jun 2023

Press Call: Cabinet Secretary officially opens new £1.5 million Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) special operations training and logistics facility.

When: Monday 12 June, 11.20am

Where: Unit 5, Newbridge One Industrial Park, Cliftonhall Road, Newbridge, Edinburgh, EH28 8PW

The Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care, Michael Matheson, will open a new £1.5 million special operations training and logistics facility, and hear how the facility will be used for a range of training exercises, including how to respond to major incidents. A Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) decontamination demonstration will also take place.

Invited media will have a chance to interview:

Michael Matheson, Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care
Pauline Howie OBE, Chief Executive of the Scottish Ambulance Service

Please note, coverage will be embargoed until 00.01 on Tuesday 13 June.

Grateful if you can RSVP by 3pm today.

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.