Penicuik Community First Responders

To save lives: trained volunteer First Responders are called by the Scottish Ambulance Service to attend patients who have called 999, to help them with emergency basic life support skills, whilst they await for an ambulance with paramedics to attend, To seek advancement of health and the advancement of education: trained volunteers provide Emergence Basic Life Support training courses for the general public to enable them to cope in an emergency. In addition we maintain 8 public access defibrillators in the Penicuik area for local people to use in the event of a cardiac arrest, whilst awaiting the ambulance and paramedics to attend.