South West volunteer 999 responders get six new vehicles
BBC 2023-06-10 09:27:44 • 1 min
Six new response vehicles have been delivered to the South Western Ambulance Service.
Volunteer Community First Responders (CFRs) will be using the vehicles which were funded by a 128,000 grant from NHS Charities Together.
They will be used to get to patients across Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.
In the last year CFRs went to about 24,000 incidents.
The new vehicles, equipped with a defibrillator, were officially presented to the ambulance service at Buckfast Abbey in Devon.
