Cardiff Medics CFR

Medical students trained by @WelshAmbulance to respond in our free time as Community First Responders. Providing basic emergency care to our community.

[Welsh Ambulance @WelshAmbulance]

It is with great sadness we must announce the loss of a fourth colleague to Covid-19. Kevin Hughes was just 41 years old. Read more here https://t.co/uq8iAScLRj

[Cardiff Medics CFR @CardiffMedCFR]

@MedRimsha @BetsiCadwaladr @WelshAmbulance @MedSocBangor That would be great for you guys if possible! We are essentially tagging along with the schemes in Bangor and Wrexham, but if you guys set up your own scheme / were trained up, there’s no reason you couldn’t do the same!

[Cardiff Medics CFR @CardiffMedCFR]

Excited to announce we now have a branch of our scheme set up in both Bangor and Wrexham, meaning our med student CFRs can go on shifts when on placement in @BetsiCadwaladr. Many thanks to the @WelshAmbulance CFR schemes in North Wales for supporting us to achieve this

[Cardiff Medics CFR @CardiffMedCFR]

@MaestegCFR Haha, thanks - bit of a trek to Maesteg though!! Hope you are all keeping well and happy new year.

[Cardiff Medics CFR @CardiffMedCFR]

COVID-19 caused challenges for us, leading to our scheme being inactive from March until students could returned to Cardiff and be PPE trained. However, we still have achievements to share! 2020 was a difficult year and we hope, alongside the rest of the world, for a better 2021

[Cardiff Medics CFR @CardiffMedCFR]

@Asgharki Thanks Az and happy new year!

[Cardiff Medics CFR @CardiffMedCFR]

Training weekend complete with 24 brand new @WelshAmbulance CFRs ready to go!! Thank you so much to all our new responders who have worked hard to complete their assessments, our dedicated committee (particularly our training manager Gabby Kelly) and to @sadlerjason8

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Level 3 PPE training for our responders last night. Thanks @sadlerjason8! Our medical student CFRs are excited to get back out with @WelshAmbulance

[Cardiff Medics CFR @CardiffMedCFR]

Application link: https://t.co/UmK8hmgTVC

[Cardiff Medics CFR @CardiffMedCFR]

*APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR 2020/21*
We are offering 24 places for @CardiffMBBChC21 medical students to become Community First Responders with our scheme. More details on the application and our scheme in general are on our new Facebook page linked below:
https://t.co/fXxXTblune

[Cardiff Medics CFR @CardiffMedCFR]

Well done to our committee member @Elljp33 (and also Cate!) for this important letter now in EMJ

[Elliot Phillips @ellphillips_]

@cate_med and I have had our article published in the Emergency Medicine Journal about how Wales is being left behind by not mandating CPR teaching in schools.

https://t.co/zJlsQnaNqE

@WelshHearts @BHFCymru @fmwales @wgmin_education @vaughangething

[Welsh Ambulance @WelshAmbulance]

It is with great sadness that we announce the loss of our Community First Responder, Bryan Foley. Bryan volunteered hundreds of hours of service to his local community during 15 years with #TeamWAST. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues at this difficult time.

[Cardiff Medics CFR @CardiffMedCFR]

Unfortunately due to current circumstances we have temporarily stopped responding, in the best interests of our patients and community. Where possible we will help the NHS during this time and get back to responding when safe to do so. Stay safe everyone!

[Cardiff Medics CFR @CardiffMedCFR]

Pre-assessment nerves? 🤓 @sadlerjason8

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@sadlerjason8

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And we're off to a flying start with the new responders training day 1. Lots of enthused faces!!

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@sadlerjason8

[Cardiff Medics CFR @CardiffMedCFR]

Kicking off the talks is our scheme coordinator Matthew Lee

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@sadlerjason8

[Cardiff Medics CFR @CardiffMedCFR]

Final day of training for our new members. Here we have two of our responders Lydia and Hayley doing a demo of how to manage a cardiac arrest