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Jun 20, 2024
Investing in the Scottish Ambulance Service
Yesterday, I asked Health Secretary Neil Gray MSP how the SNP Government will use the £15 million in extra funding it has allocated to...
Apr 11, 2023
Scottish Ambulance Service Continues Record Recruitment
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) has recruited a record 1,388 staff and introduced 52 additional ambulances in the past three years...
Oct 12, 2022
Record Recruitment for Scottish Ambulance Service
A record 540 paramedics, ambulance drivers, call handlers, and clinicians have been employed by the Scottish Ambulance Service in the...
Mar 29, 2022
Record Number of Emergency Crews Recruited in Scotland
The Scottish Ambulance Service recruited a record number of frontline emergency staff last year, backed by £20 million of SNP Scottish...
Sep 22, 2021
Additional £20 million Support for Scottish Ambulance Service
The SNP Government is investing an additional £20 million in the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) to help improve response times,...
Sep 3, 2021
Almost 300 more Ambulance Staff with £20 million Investment
Almost 300 additional Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) staff are being recruited through a £20 million SNP Government funding injection...
Jul 30, 2021
Ambulance Paramedics issue Life-saving Drug Overdose Kits
Almost two thirds of Scotland’s ambulance paramedics have now been trained in supplying Take-Home Naloxone (THN) to people who may...
Jul 2, 2021
£10,000 Bursary for Paramedic Students
Hundreds of paramedic students in Scotland will receive an annual bursary of £10,000 each from the SNP Government. An estimated 668...
Jan 7, 2021
Naloxone Take-home Kits distributed across Scotland to People at Risk of Overdose
Take-home Naloxone will be given to people at high risk of accidental overdoses, in a move designed to reduce the number of drug deaths....
Jul 3, 2020
Scottish Ambulance Service to take over Mobile COVID-19 Testing Units
The Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) will take over the running of Scotland’s coronavirus (COVID-19) mobile testing units from the start...
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