Community First Responder volunteers are trained to attend emergency calls received by the ambulance service and provide care until the ambulance arrives.

Following a 999 call, one of a group of trained volunteers is despatched to the patient by the Ambulance Service to provide basic life support in the vital minutes before the ambulance can arrive.

The idea is that due to their locality the First Responders can get to the patient more quickly than the Paramedic Car or Ambulance that is always sent and make time critical interventions to maximise the patient’s chances of survival.

And joining me at Phoenix FM today to talk about the First responders initiative in our area was Roy Tyzack.

Roy Tyzack

You can listen to our chat here –

You can find out more about getting involved with First Responders here – First Responders

I also had a chat with Roy about talented local singer/songwriter Matthew Shepherd. You can listen to that here – 

Matthew Shepherd

In Tribute to Tony Benn who died this morning aged 88 I played a short Clip of him talking to film maker Michael Moore. You can listen to this again here –