Community first responders

Community first responders in Surrey
started in March 2006 and has rapidly grown to a
total of eight schemes.
Spread across the county, the units provide a very
important service to their local community in partnership with the
South East Coast Ambulance NHS Trust.
In cases such as chest pains or non-breathing casualties, every
second is critical to the casualty. We hope that our
CFR
units are able to save those
vital seconds and minutes by being on-call in their local area and
are able to respond if that call comes in.
Neighbourhood first responder scheme has been one of our successes...returning our organisation back to its roots - the community.
John Griffiths
Commissioner, Surrey
Units
In Surrey we have units in
- Normandy & Wood Street/Fairlands
- Cranleigh
- Epsom
- Ewhurst
- Godalming
- Churt
- Chiddingfold
- Effingham & District (covering Ockham, the Horsleys,
Bookham, Fetcham, Cobham and Leatherhead).
These schemes collectively have approximately 60
responders mostly covering up to 11 hours a
day.