Welcome to the Till Valley Community First Responders website. This website provides information on the First Responder scheme, details about this group, the area we cover, the equipment we use, call-outs that we have attended and much more.

First Responders are members of the community who have been trained in giving emergency life saving first aid. Trained, controlled and deployed by their regional Ambulance Service, First Responder schemes operate in any area where an emergency ambulance would be unable or unlikely to reach an incident within the eight minute target response time. As members of the local community, First Responders are able to reach a patient in minutes, a factor which could be crucial when dealing with serious illness such as cardiac arrest. In recent years, advances in technology have been made, and many interventions which were previously performed only by highly trained medical professionals are now available to people with much less training. These include small, easy to operate 'external defibrillators' (AEDs) and lightweight oxygen delivery systems (see 'Our Equipment' page).

“A community based group of Volunteers, trained and equipped to assist North East Ambulance Service by being available to respond to certain types of Emergency call within their local area, with the aim of supporting the attending Ambulance crew and ensuring that care reaches the patient at the earliest opportunity”