Following a number of violent criminal incidents within eyesight of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic venues, overall security and safety issues are now added to the list of concerns among Continue Reading →
Each year up to one million people in Europe suffer from a cardiac arrest, while a mere eight per cent survives due to the slow response times of emergency services. Continue Reading →
The European Emergency Number Association is to take part in a three-year ‘EmerGent’ project, to examine the positive and negative impact use of social media in emergencies involving EMS agencies and public Continue Reading →
A troubling report on the mental health state of those who respond to emergencies and save lives in Canada reveals that 58 per cent of paramedics admit to suffering from a very high level of psychological stress. Continue Reading →
Finland’s emergency services have been working alongside the Communications Regulatory Authority and telecoms operators to test countrywide mobile access to the 112 emergency phone number. Continue Reading →
Healthcare services in Sweden, Italy and Norway are of a high quality, according to a findings of a new project that followed individual patients, but it also found that quality and costs varied widely both between and within countries. Continue Reading →
EMS personnel from the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Spain were rewarded for their commitment to promote and improve the European emergency number ‘112’ at this year’s awards ceremony in Warsaw. Continue Reading →
All new cars produced in the EU from October 2015 would have to be fitted with an ‘eCall’ system that calls emergency services in the event of a crash, under new proposals by the European Commission. Continue Reading →