Working during a global pandemic – one year on

“We couldn’t have done any of this without our fantastic staff!” That’s the message from North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) as it looks back over the last year to mark the one-year anniversary of the first UK transfer of a COVID-19 patient, carried out by a NEAS crew. On 31 January 2020, at the very start of the pandemic, when a team from the North East’s Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) were tasked with transporting the country’s first COVID-19 patient from Hull to the infectious diseases unit ...