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Scheduled Care Coordinator turns Stirling man's life around

A man who has spent the past seven Christmases alone after his wife died has been reunited with the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) staff member who helped turn his life around.

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Mental health practitioners now taking calls in the ACC

The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) has introduced mental health clinical advisers to its ambulance control centres (ACCs), in an initiative that is the first of its kind in Scotland. 

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Ambulance and hospital staff to raise funds for Aoife's Sensory Bus

More than 50 ambulance service and hospital staff will take part in a 96 mile walk to raise funds for Aoife’s Sensory Bus.

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Scottish Ambulance Service receives 10 million calls

More than 10 million people have called the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) Ambulance Control Centre (ACC) in the past nine years.

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SAS Celebrates International Paramedics Day

The Scottish Ambulance Service is celebrating International Paramedics Day on Saturday 8th July by saying thank you to all their hardworking and dedicated staff, and sharing some of their stories.

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King's Ambulance Service Medal recipient announced

A Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) manager who has demonstrated exceptional leadership during her 27-year- career at SAS has been awarded the King’s Ambulance Service Medal (KAM).

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New £1.5m training facility opens at Newbridge

A new £1.5 million Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) special operations training and logistics facility was opened in Newbridge, Edinburgh yesterday (June 12).

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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

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Husband of SAS staff member who passed away, 24, running marathon to honour wife's Bucket List

The husband of a Scottish Ambulance Service paramedic is raising money for the cancer charity which supported his wife before she passed away.

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Five West Lothian SAS staff members to attempt Three Peaks Challenge

Five Scottish Ambulance Service staff members from West Lothian are taking part in the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge, aiming to complete it twice in 24 hours of walking, to raise money for TASC (The Ambulance Staff Charity). 

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Graham on ‘emotional’ Hawick Ambulance Station visit as Scottish Building Society make Player of the Month donation

Edinburgh Rugby and Scotland star Darcy Graham presented Hawick Ambulance Station with a donation of £500 and a signed match jersey to thank the hero Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) staff who saved his brother’s life after a horror crash.

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Scottish Ambulance Service dad tells of cancer battle

A Dumfries-based dad of two who was diagnosed with prostate cancer two weeks before Christmas is raising awareness following his two-year fight.