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6 unusual facts about West Midlands CARE Team


West Midlands CARE Team

They drive the team's response vehicle and would usually fulfil the role of Ambulance Incident Officer of arrival: co-ordinating the resources on scene and liaising with the WMAS control room.

Undergraduate Trauma Course: fourth year medical students at the University of Birmingham medical school undertake a two day course introducing them to the fundamentals of pre-hospital trauma care.

Most personnel work in NHS hospitals in their day-to-day professional life, volunteering spare time to respond with the charity.

Working in teams alongside West Midlands Ambulance Service, volunteer doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals deliver enhanced critical care to seriously injured and unwell patients.

Alongside this, the paramedic officer position was replaced with paramedics from the Hazardous Area Response Team (HART).

Every team has at least one paramedic - a full-time employee of West Midlands Ambulance Service.


West Midlands Ambulance Service

The CARE Team is a volunteer group of BASICS doctors and nurses, conveyed in a specially equipped fast response car by a paramedic officer to provide advanced medical care at the scene of an incident.


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