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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

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.

Isle of Wight NHS Trust has published its Quality Account for 2024/2025.

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.

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. 

In a major leap forward for healthcare cyber security, the Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT) has successfully completed the implementation of an advanced management system designed to protect critical Internet of Things (IoT), Operational Technology (OT) and medical devices connected to hospital networks.

Isle of Wight Ambulance Service (IWAS) hosted Helen Vine, Assistant Director from the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) to see some of the fantastic work taking place by our teams and hear more about the unique challenges faced by operating on an Island.

Since opening its doors six months ago, staff working in our Outpatient and Community Diagnostic Centre at St Mary’s Hospital have delivered almost 55,000 appointments and tests to support improved diagnostic care for islanders - that's 420 patients a day!