SAVOY VENTURES AMBULANCE STAFF TO GET FIRST-IN-REGION EMERGENCY CARE TRAINING

SAVOY VENTURES LTD.

NHS PATIENT TRANSPORT

PRESS RELEASE

September 2, 2011.

SAVOY VENTURES AMBULANCE STAFF TO GET FIRST-IN-REGION EMERGENCY CARE TRAINING.

Staff at Greenhithe-based Patient Transport Service provider Savoy Ventures Limited are to undergo training which will qualify them to a standard unique in the region.

Care assistants and drivers providing patient transport for people being transferred to and from South London Healthcare Trust hospitals are to undergo an Emergency Care Assistance course operated by the renowned Chesterfield College, a leader in sector training.

“What this means to patients being transferred by Savoy staff is that, for instance, drivers who have First Aid certificates will undergo training and development which will qualify them to work as frontline ambulance crew alongside paramedics – we have already signed up 48 staff to the course,” said Jonathan Smith, Savoy Training Manager.

“We believe Savoy staff will be the first in the region to undergo such training, which will also raise their qualifications to an equal footing to that of NHS staff.”

The training involves 400 hours of online components, lectures and field internship, and also involves students third-manning in ambulances with paramedics and ambulance technicians, with successful students gaining an L2 Intermediate Level Apprenticeship in Health (Emergency Care Assistance).

As well as providing strong and highly qualified resource for patient transport services, Emergency Care Assistants (ECAs) are qualified to get involved in responding to emergency calls to provide care to patients, driving ambulances, assisting paramedics, using medical and life support equipment.

Savoy Ventures Limited is a private company providing patient transport and transfer services to NHS Trusts in the South East of England. Established in 2006, Savoy makes more than 240,000 patient transfer journeys a year. Savoy Ventures Limited is engaged by a number of NHS Trusts to carry out blue-light transfers, specialist wheelchair, incubator, bariatric chair or stretcher transport, notes/X-ray transfer, and movement of tissue between hospitals. Many staff are trained and qualified to Ambulance Technician level.

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Further information:

Iain Macauley

im@pressrelations.co.uk

07788 978800

www.savoyventures.com

EMPLOYERS IN CRISIS – LEARN FROM THE CHILEAN MINERS RESCUE.

MANAGEMENT INTELLIGENCE

PRESS RELEASE

November 9, 2010.

EMPLOYERS IN CRISIS – LEARN FROM THE CHILEAN MINERS RESCUE.

Video: Full interview.

Video: Short interview.

Employers could learn a great deal from the ordeal and rescue of the trapped Chilean miners, says Bridget Biggar, of “management engineering” organisation Management Intelligence www.miconsulting.co.uk .

“One of the most high-profile people crises of 2010 was turned into one of the biggest successes of 2010 – and if organisations currently going through the stress of recession adopted the lessons learnt from that ordeal and rescue, then businesses in trouble could actually find themselves in upturn,” said Bridget.

Management Intelligence helps managers and employees understand their behaviour in everyday situations and when under stress, and “engineers” management teams for optimum performance. Bridget says that both the way the trapped miners managed their situation and how the Chilean authorities supported families and rescuers is a tremendous lesson for business.

“The trapped miners elected people to be put in charge of food, spirituality and physical well-being by looking at each person’s strengths and choosing the person with the right skills to lead in each of those areas - and then they followed each other so that they were disciplined and so enhanced their resilience,” said Bridget.

“In business, we want to follow people who we believe in, we want to follow people who we see with certain strengths, people who make us feel good, feel optimistic.

“If we look at organisations that are doing great work in the world, staff really want to work for them, particularly Generation Y.

“People want to work for a manager and work with colleagues who are constantly looking for what they do best and making sure that they are putting those strengths to work, and that’s what happened down in that mine.

“The world’s bosses can also learn from the President of Chile; he did it for political capital, of course, but he was there holding hands, literally, with the families; he garnered the world’s press, got the best rescue teams from around the world.

“The message to bosses is ‘be there, say the right things, and really mean it’. A billion people got behind those Chilean miners and their rescuers – that can work for business in crisis too.”

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Further information:

Iain Macauley

+44 (0)7788 978800

im@pressrelations.co.uk

www.miconsulting.co.uk

Management consultant assesses Fabio Capello.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLjwzJqWyuM