“It s logical that the military are brought in at a time of national need.”
East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust paramedics training soldiers from the 1st Queens Dragoons Guards during the coronavirus pandemic.
- Credit: UK Ministry of Defence 2020
He added: “The military is quite prepared to do whatever the nation asks, whether it is to deploy on overseas operations or counter insurgency or equally we always understand that military aid to the civilian authorities is part of our duties.
“If the nation requires us to do stuff at home we will do stuff at home in an enthusiastic fashion. It is all part of the service.”
Trusts said they have now resolved supply issues by increasing tank deliveries from main NHS supplier BOC
Ambulance crews in parts of the country hard hit by covid-19 have run very low on oxygen or out of it entirely on several occasions in the last month,
HSJ has learnt.
HSJ understands East of England Ambulance Service Trust had to dispatch ambulance crews with very limited oxygen supply earlier this month due to strained tank supplies. At one point, crews were sent out with “a single, quarter-full portable oxygen bottle where they used to have at least four portable bottles on the vehicle”, according to one source close to the trust.
THE devastated family of a teenage motorcyclist who was killed when his bike crashed have slammed vandals for destroying his memorial site. Tommy Young, 17, died last July after his motorbike struck a lamppost, in Frinton Road, Kirby Cross, near Parker’s Garden Company. Paramedics from the East of England Ambulance Service had rushed to the scene but, despite their best efforts, were unable to save his life. As the news of the Tendring Technology College student’s tragic death filtered through the village, an outpouring of grief saw hundreds of people send their condolences. In the days that followed the accident, a section of wall not far from the crash site started to become a shrine honouring Tommy’s memory.