By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Ambulance chiefs have stopped an experienced volunteer life-saving medic in Nantwich from driving to emergencies on blue lights, sparking fears the time delay could cost lives.
Gavin Palin has been with the ambulance service in Nantwich for 23 years and has responded to life-threatening calls, such as cardiac arrests, on blue lights in the area for the past two decades.
A life-saving defibrillator machine has been installed to cover the rural parish of Hatherton and Walgherton near Nantwich.
Parishioners have been working over the last few months to raise funds for the new equipment.
A paramedic working for North West Ambulance Service which covers Nantwich, Crewe and surrounding areas, has died from COVID-19.
The service issued a statement announcing the death “of a very dear colleague” after they contracted Coronavirus.
Nantwich’s two Ambulance First Responders have won a national 2017 Community Hero award.
Gavin Palin and Max Kelly were stunned to discover they had been nominated – and even more so when organisers called to say they had won.
A paramedic helped turn a Nantwich village pub into a life-saving training centre!
Nick Blair, from North West Ambulance Service, ran a first aid course at The Bhurtpore Inn in Asto
Major roads and M6 motorway in South Cheshire will be safer after a life-saving donation of defibrillators by North West Ambulance Service.
NWAS has donated 16 defibrillators to the Cheshire Police Roads Policing Unit and are providing training in how to use them.
Six members of staff from Aqueduct Marina in Nantwich have been trained to help save lives. The employees are now equipped with an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) given to them by North West Ambulance Service.
More lives are being saved in and around Nantwich after a campaign to improve ambulance response times in the town. Latest figures show 80% of category A calls are being reached within the eight-minute later – up from just 55% 18 months ago.
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