Recuriting ACAs, ECAs and IHCD Techs.

Richard Lush (Admin - Student Paramedic) — Tue, 01 May 2012 09:30:18 +0000

We are currently recruiting ACAs, ECAs, EMTs, IHCD Techs and Team leaders for a forth coming NHS contract. Please send your CV through to us ASAP or download and send in a completed application form along with a copy of all relevant certificates and Enhanced CRB.

If you are interested in joining our team and providing event services, please send your CV through to info[at]1stresponsemedical.co.uk, please also complete our Bank Application form available here.

Here at 1st Response Medical Services we are always looking for Fire Fighters, Ambulance First Responders, Emergency Care Assistants (ECAs) , EMT’s/IHCD Technicians, HPC Paramedics, Doctors and Nurses for Bank Work. We are currently recruiting ACAs, ECAs, EMTs, IHCD Techs and Team leaders for a forth coming NHS contract. Please send your CV through to us ASAP or download and send in a completed application form along with a copy of all relevant certificates and Enhanced CRB. If you are interested in joining our team and providing event services, please send your CV through to info[at]1stresponsemedical.co.uk, please also complete our Bank Application form available here.

Official Statement from Dr Alex Woods

Richard Lush (Admin - Student Paramedic) — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:16:15 +0000

9th Apr 2012

Dr Alex Woods (OUBC):

I’d like to thank everybody for all of their concern and for their kind wishes over the last couple of days, it really does mean a lot. I’m sorry for causing any worry! I am pleased to say that I am on the mend and that the doctors have allowed me to return home to recover. I should be fine in a few days.

I’d like to thank the paramedics, Dr Sichel, 1^st Response Medical Services, the St John’s Ambulance staff and everyone at A+E and the Cardiology unit at Charing Cross Hospital for their great care. I hope that I can reach the same standards when I qualify.

I'm very proud of Zoe and all of the guys. I feel privileged to have lived, trained and raced with them and it has been an honour to call them my crew mates. It is a shame that we’ll finish this year having never raced the whole Boat Race course together.

I don't remember anything of the Race after being aware of the blade breaking, and am obviously devastated at the way things turned out, but would like to congratulate CUBC for their win.

I have contacted their crew and Steve Trapmore personally, to say that I'm very sorry that my collapse prevented their celebrations, and to thank them for thinking of me at the time. Such sportsman-like behaviour is a real credit to all of their crew and everyone at CUBC. Although The Boat Race 2012 will be remembered for a number of unfortunate reasons, I hope it is some of these qualities that will keep the Race in people’s minds for years to come.

[Official Statement originally posted on The Boat Race website]

Offical Statement from the Offical Boat Race 2012 Website

Richard Lush (Admin - Student Paramedic) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:05:34 +0000

7th Apr 2012

Boat Race Company Ltd (BRCL) latest:

First and foremost, we are delighted that the Oxford Bowman Alex Woods is in a stable condition and looks set to make a full recovery.

The Xchanging Boat Race is a British institution and an annual highlight in the sporting calendar. It is a free event enjoyed by many hundreds of thousands of Londoners and visitors, and many millions of television viewers around the world. It is very sad that the 158^th Boat Race, which was heading towards a thrilling finale, was disrupted by a member of the public in a manner that risked serious injury to himself and the competing crews.

These incidents are planned for and we would like to congratulate both crews and The Race Umpire for their speed and professionalism in unfortunate circumstances as a result of which the protestor suffered no injuries.

Earlier statements

BRCL can confirm that Alex Woods is in a stable condition. He will continue to be monitored by hospital staff.

At this time, BRCL's concern is for Alex's well-being. Alex's family are with him and he is receiving the best possible medical care. Until we have any updates, there will be no further comment.

Bureau, New Scotland Yard:

Shortly before 14:30hrs on Saturday 7 April police were alerted to a man in the River Thames where the Boat Race was being held.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Marine Policing Unit (MPU) attended and took the man (no further details at this time) back to the riverside where he was arrested for a section 5 public order offence. He has been taken into custody at a west London police station.

Enquiries into the circumstances of the incident are underway.

Sean Bowden (OUBC Coach) :

Obviously our biggest concern is Alex’s welfare and it was good to see that he was conscious and taken off to hospital with good care. But this really was the product of the most extraordinary and unfortunate chain of events that have conspired against us to take away a win which I think we looked like we were about to take in the race proper. We rowed ourselves into a very good position and the crew looked in good shape. And we were ready to go and again at the restart we put ourselves in a very good position. The clash was obviously just one of those extremely unfortunate things. And the outcome of the crash was a broken blade. And I guess you can only imagine the desperation that Alex must have been in with only 6 crew mates left and that’s probably how he ended up pushing himself beyond his limits.

Steve Trapmore(CUBC Coach):

Our primary concern is Alex Woods and we are glad to hear he is doing ok. It is not the way any of us wanted the Race to pan out.

In terms of the Race itself, I felt that both crews started off well and from where I was sat in the launch, it looked like it was going to be a closely contested affair.

To have to stop the Race was a great shame. When we restarted we knew it was going to have to be a blast to the finish. The guys were ready for the challenge and were in good position off the start, but Oxford encroached on our water, which resulted in a broken blade.

1^st Response Medical Services

Today 1^st Response Medical Services Limted were tasked to provide Paramedic cover at both the finish line and Mortlake Anglian and Alpha Boat Club with the primary responsibility of emergency provision of the athletes involved in the Boat Race.

At the end of the race it was seen by our crew on the quayside that a competitor at the back of the University Of Oxford Boat appeared to be lying flat and may have been in distress. Our crew prepared themselves for possible deployment with full Advanced Life Support equipment.

The crew was summoned to the marshal boat and soon boarded, our paramedics worked with two Doctors, one from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and a GP.

Our crew with the doctors assessed the patient and assisted him to the riverbank and travelled with the doctor to hospital in a St John Ambulance frontline vehicle.

1^st Response would like to thank both Doctors, the RNLI and St John Ambulance for this coordinated response to Dr Woods.

1^st Response Medical Services wishes Dr Woods a speedy recovery.

I am proud of how our guys handled themselves. We all now wish Alex the speediest of recoveries.