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Rugby First Responders are a volunteer group which responds to 999 calls in partnership with West Midlands Ambulance Service. The idea being that a First Responder can arrive on scene and begin immediate treatment and then be backed up by an West Midlands Ambulance.

First Responders are people who live in the community to which they serve, they are retained on a purely voluntary basis by the West Midlands Ambulance Service and are dispatched to the area’s of their community where people have suffered trauma or a sudden life threatening illness.

Our First Responders are trained by West Midlands Ambulance Service to a nationally accredited qualification to give emergency life saving treatment until an ambulance service resource  arrives on scene. We don’t replace the ambulance service resource but bridges the gap between the 999 call being made and the arrival of the ambulance service – providing our community with the best care possible.