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A new team will respond to urgent and life-threatening calls across the Island.
A team of five people made of off-duty paramedics, the Ambulance Support Service and first aiders from St John Ambulance will take part in the pilot scheme. They will respond to urgent and life threatening calls and will be backed up by an ambulance.
They’ll each carry a kit bag containing first aid kits, tetra radios and defibrillators. They’ve been bought with funding from the Health department and cost between £1,200 and £1,500 each.
Health's combined control centre manager Esta Williams said: “It’s really going to help the public particularly in rural parishes.”
And she’s confident the responders will feel really satisfied that they’ve been able to help people in need.
In the next few weeks the Service is launching an Automated Vehicle Location System. It will enable them to see exactly where their vehicles are at any given time and means that they’ll be able to divert their paramedics when they are faced with life threatening calls.
The responder scheme runs in the UK and in Guernsey and if it proves a success in Jersey over the next few months, the Service will need more funding to buy more kits.
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