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6 August 2025
The Isle of Wight Ambulance Service is delighted to share that it is the first ambulance service in the UK to achieve 100% of their registered defibrillators confirmed as ‘emergency ready’, and that the devices have all been checked within the past three months.
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24 July 2025
The British Medical Association has announced that industrial action by resident doctors (formally known as junior doctors) will take place across England for five days from 7am on Friday 25 July until 7am on Wednesday 30 July.
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11 July 2025
Isle of Wight Ambulance Service (IWAS) and South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) have partnered with the GoodSAM Responder app, to decrease the response time to life-threatening cardiac arrest calls
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7 July 2025
On 7 July 2005, Phil Nation, now a Paramedic for Isle of Wight Ambulance Service, was a few hours into his shift with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) unit in London when they received an alert to attend what was reported to be multiple explosions in the city.
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30 June 2025
Isle of Wight NHS Trust has published its Quality Account for 2024/2025.
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25 June 2025
Isle of Wight NHS Trust is proud to announce long-serving nurse Kris Warner has become the organisation’s 10th staff member to join the Army Reserves, marking a proud milestone for the trust and reinforcing its continued support for reservist colleagues.
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25 June 2025
Earlier this month, Isle of Wight Ambulance Service (IWAS) began recruiting patients for the Spinal Immobilisation Study (SIS), a multi-site randomised clinical trial that aims to recruit over 2000 patients nationally.
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18 June 2025
Temperatures are set to reach highs of 25 degrees across the Isle of Wight over the next few days as the population is also set to increase with the Isle of Wight Festival taking place from 19 to 22 June.
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