School children swap the classroom for a lesson is lifesaving

Children as young as eight saw life through the eyes of an ambulance dispatcher when they were faced with life and death scenarios and asked to choose who should get an ambulance first. The children were faced with a woman in labour, someone having a heart attack and someone with a cracked fingernail, and had to decide whether the ambulance response should be ‘fast, slow or not at all’. The exercise was part of a long running partnership between North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) and the West View ...