19 Apr 2024
SAS Special Operations team from West to appear on latest Paramedics on Scene
The Scottish Ambulance Service’s Special Operations Response Team (SORT) based in Johnstone will appear on a new series of Paramedics on Scene, which airs on Sunday.
Stevie Hannah, Pete Anderson, Paul McNab and Nicole Pollock will feature alongside SAS’s North Ambulance Control Centre (ACC) based in Inverness, and Livingston and Dunfermline frontline crews.
The episode features SORT attending to a young woman has been kicked by a horse, a patient who has suddenly lost sight in one eye, and a North ACC call handler guiding a caller through CPR until a crew arrive.
Stevie said: “I’ve been in the Service for 31 years and try to stick by the same rules - treat every patient like it was your relatives and you’ll never go wrong. It’s still the best job in the world.”
Season Five of Paramedics on Scene is on BBC Scotland at 9am on Sunday and repeated at 8pm on Tuesday. It is also available on BBC iPlayer.
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