Choose well

After some leave I am back on nights this weekend and normal service is resumed. The past week or so have been fairly turbulent with the EU referendum, political upheaval, football results as just a few of the headlines.

Locally the summer events season is in full swing with beach volleyball this weekend and sand polo next headlining this month, many smaller events take place around the area aiming to promote local groups and often raise much needed funds for projects. In my normal way please try and support these events.

As we move towards the school holidays our trust area sees a huge increase in population from visitors and this leads to an increase in demand on our service. Plans are in place to deal with these increases and a mainstay of this is public education. There are alternatives to ambulances available to provide care and if we can direct people to these which ensure that we have resources available to respond to the most urgent cases.

Please think is there another source of care you can choose rather than 999?

Stay safe and hopefully you will not meet any of our crews.