As part of the move, seven new ambulance personnel have been recruited, initially, as Ambulance Care Assistants. Three of the new recruits have been promoted to Emergency Medical Technicians, following the successful completion of the necessary training.

As a result, Gibraltar has all pre-hospital emergency response assets operating under the same umbrella, automatically standardising vital areas such as emergency callout attendances, training, clinical development, protocols and the coordination and planning of major incident response procedures.

The new members of staff have undertaken training and development programmes, which include: • Clinical Development Courses.

• Emergency Response Driver Training.

• Vehicles and Manual Handling Equipment.

• Major Incidents & Civil Disturbances.

• Supporting the Paramedic.

• Patient Communication.

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