This month sees us welcome several new responders to our volunteer team. They have completed their initial training with WMAS and once undertaken a number of shifts with an experienced CFR, will be going ‘live’ within the next couple of months and increasing our availability – especially important as the weather becomes more difficult and creates delays in 999 ambulance response times.

So a special welcome to Rob, Neil, Jim (who joins his wife Emma ) and Wendy (who joins her son Mark who is our CFR coordinator)

At the same time, we also say thank you to Mike and Steve for their service almost from the start of the CFR team 12 years ago. Although they will remain as Charity Trustees and part of the support team, they will no longer be continuing as actual responders.

We also say thank you to Denise – again continuing as a Trustee – but who will now be concentrating on her volunteer role as CO of our local RAF Cadets with a major role in cadet first aid training across Staffordshire