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New paramedic education centre opened
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) has formally opened its state-of-the-art education and recruitment centre in Newbury.
The new facility combines three former education centres under one roof, as well as providing additional space for the Trust’s award-winning recruitment team.
The centre also includes a simulation suite, believed to be the first for any ambulance service in Europe. The simulation suite enables staff to encounter a range of different training scenarios with responsive, video footage being projected onto every wall around them.
Ian Teague, assistant director of Education at SCAS, said: “The new education and recruitment centre is a fantastic resource for SCAS and will help us recruit and train the additional staff we need in our emergency 999, urgent care and non-emergency patient transport services. By investing in the very latest technologies and training equipment, we can train our clinical staff to a level and in a volume of numbers that other ambulance trusts are simply unable to match. This will deliver real benefits to the patients our staff look after, as well as make the Trust operate more efficiently and cost-effectively in terms of recruitment and retention.”
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