We are an independent not-for-profit, registered charity supporting a team of specialist
doctors and paramedics based across the East Midlands region.
The support we offer East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) is provided free of charge to
the NHS. This is only achievable through our network of dedicated and passionate doctors
and paramedics, who all give their time voluntarily and the generosity of donors across
the East Midlands. We receive no government, public sector or NHS funding so we are 100%
reliant on charitable donations, legacies, grants, third-party fundraising and sponsorship.
Our doctors and paramedics undergo a rigorous selection process, and they must be prepared
to commit to volunteering for at least 3 years. They all have more than 5 years post
qualification experience and we put them through an intensive in-house competency-based
training programme. We mentor and monitor them along the way and record all their
activities and compliance records on our internally developed and secure IT systems.
We employ a suitably qualified operations manager to ensure that all our compliance
standards are kept up to date, we procure assets, drugs and consumables to proper value
for money principles and all our equipment is kept operational and fully serviced. This
operations manager is a fully qualified paramedic and volunteers to treat patients in his
own time.
We have many volunteers who support our fundraising efforts and manage the charity at a
strategic level.
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