North East Ambulance Service - BAME Positive Action and Community Ambassador Project
The North East Ambulance Service has recently appointed a Positive Action Officer to help them to work with people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. Find out more about how they can help.
Do you want to know more about the North East Ambulance Service?
- Who to call for an emergency or urgent health issue
- What numbers to ring
- When to use 999 / 111 / Patient Transport Services
- How you could get help to travel to hospital / medical appointments
- How to access language interpreting support
- First aid and community defibrillators
- Information about jobs and volunteering
- Do you want them to train one or more people in your community to be a community ambassador and be your link to the ambulance service?
Their Positive Action Officer can help people from ethnically diverse communities
- Link with community groups and individuals to provide information and advice on how to access and use its services
- Meet with community members over the internet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and in person (subject to restrictions)
- Get people access to their free language interpreting services when they call 999, 111 and Patient Transport Services
- Help people apply for grants to part-fund a defibrillator for a community venue
- Provide information about the COVID-19 vaccine and help to dispel the myths
For more information contact Loveness Scott
Email: loveness.scott@neas.nhs.uk or diversity@neas.nhs.uk
Tel & text: 07580 590 185.
