The team were called by Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) to assist with a casualty (m,51) who had become unconscious near the base of Malham Cove. By the time the first team members arrived on scene the casualty was conscious again and being treated by the YAS Paramedics. Once the Paramedics were happy with his condition team members helped the gentleman onto a stretcher and carried him to our waiting Landrover…
Called by YAS to assist with an incident SW of Settle. Stood down on arrival. Volunteer hours 22
Returning from the previous incident, team members were asked to assist when someone suffered a medical incident at their home, believed to be inaccessible to a road ambulance, near Horton in Ribblesdale. Members stood by, as a precaution, until the YAS ambulance arrived and its paramedic took over. Footnote: CRO vehicles and members are not a substitute for the Ambulance Service, nor are they equipped or qualified…
Settle Health Centre requested CRO’s assistance, through North Yorkshire Police, when nursing staff were unable to reach vulnerable patients at home in Stainforth and Bentham because of overnight snowfall. A team Land Rover and crew took nursing staff to Stainforth but then learned that those in Bentham had managed without CRO’s assistance. [Logged as ‘Ambulance Assist’ although called by NYP on behalf of NHS; YAS not involved.]
