26 Jul 2021
Press Call – Hampden Park, Wednesday 28th July
The Scottish Ambulance Service is holding a press call with the Scottish Government to celebrate the delivery of 10,000 vaccines across Scotland from the Services’ vaccination bus.
When – 1pm, Wednesday 28th July
Where - Outside Hampden Park, Glasgow
The Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Humza Yousaf, MSP, will be in attendance at Hampden Park, where the vaccine bus will be delivering a drop-in vaccine service to the community.
He will meet the Consultant Paramedic Paul Kelly, who has been leading the vaccination bus programme, along with other colleagues.
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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