Boost to frontline ambulance service

Nineteen new front-line staff are now out on the road providing high-quality patient care in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire after completing the 13-week foundation paramedic course at the ambulance training centre in Norwich.
They are now qualified as emergency medical technicians and have the opportunity to continue training and become fully-fledged state registered paramedics.

Course leader Andy Benstead and tutors Lucas Hawkes-Frost, Steve Hall, Dan Read and Jemma Varel, taught the students key clinical skills including:

• medical assessment and treatment
• trauma management
• maternity
• major incident management

Presenting the group with certificates and stethoscopes, Andy Benstead praised them for their commitment and said: "They were an exceptionally good group who achieved everything that we asked of them and more, and they worked to a very high standard.

"They undertook a whole range of activities to back up the theory and got a lot out of dealing with major incident scenarios at RAF Coltishall and Felixstowe docks and from what we have seen in training we expect great things of them in the future as they continue with their training

"I’d like to thank everyone at the centre for making the course run smoothly, including the tutors who carried out assessments and marking and helped us meet our objectives."

Of the nineteen students, three will remain in Norfolk, nine will go to Suffolk and eight to Cambridgeshire.

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