Callington Community First Responders

22/02/2026

04/12/2025

Our 999 service is experiencing increased pressure. 🚨

The best way you can is by only calling 999 for life-threatening emergencies.

09/06/2025

Todays local Heroes, Katrina and Kelsey.
You deserve 100% recognition for stepping up and stepping forward .

07/01/2025

Goodsam Cardiac Responder.
Good Sam is an alerting system to get help to Cardiac Arrests until other help can arrive.
If you have a First Aid Certificate or higher level of training you can register with Goodsam and South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust will alert to any cardiac arrest they feel you may be able to assist at within 500m of your location .
Attendance is at your decision.
You can sign up at : https://www.goodsamapp.org/regResponder
Select your country and select "Goodsam" as your organisation
Upload your certificate and you can join the alerting system.

GoodSAM

07/01/2025

Please be aware that we have declared a critical incident. This is due significant and rising demand for hospital care.

Our colleagues are working hard to prioritise patients based on their clinical need and move patients to the right place for them as soon as possible.

If you have a very serious or life-threatening emergency, we are here for you, but otherwise, if you need urgent care, we ask you please to call NHS 111 or use NHS 111 online.

What can I do to help?
• If you have an urgent medical problem that isn’t an emergency contact NHS 111 first by phone or online
• Please use our Emergency Department if you have a life-threatening emergency. Please be aware that our service, like the wider NHS and local health and care system, is very busy.
• If you have a friend or family member in hospital please help them to come home as soon as they are ready. Talk to the ward staff about the support available to help them be discharged, including one off grants.
• The Urgent Treatment Centre at the Cumberland Centre in Devonport is open every day to treat you if you have an injury which isn’t life-threatening but requires urgent treatment
• For emergency dental care, contact your usual dentist, or contact NHS 111 by phone or online and you will be provided with details of your local out of hours service
• If you have any symptoms of a winter bug such as flu or norovirus please stay at home, particularly avoid people who are more vulnerable such as hospital patients or care home residents.
• If you don’t have symptoms of an infectious bug and you have an appointment do please attend unless you are contacted.

For more information and guidance on how you can visit: https://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk/latest-news/critical-incident-declared-at-university-hospitals-plymouth-nhs-trust-8009

02/10/2024

Help the Ambulance people find you.
Now we have Lights off at 12 till 5am in Callington, if you have called 999 for an emergency Ambulance please help the responders and ambulance find you by turning on some lights/ opening curtains so we can see the house from the outside.
This can save a lot of time searching for house numbers in darkness .
Thanks

08/06/2024

It’s never too late to volunteer for

Community First Responder Michael is proof of that who is still volunteering for us at 85 years young! 💚

Find out more about his volunteering journey below 🔽

https://www.swast.nhs.uk/meet-some-of-our-volunteers

20/04/2024

https://fb.watch/rzNclItoWA/

06/04/2024

SWAST is recruiting for community first responders.
Volunteers who provide life-saving intervention in their local community.
They will accept applications from all Cornwall so if interested please apply .

Also areas of.
Torpoint

Liskeard

Looe

Bodmin

St Austell

Par

Tintagel

Camelford

Newquay

Redruth

Camborne

Truro

jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

30/03/2024

Norovirus is Circulating in the local community :
Please read for information and when you treat at home or when you should call 111 and when you should call 999.

Read all about norovirus, including how it's spread, what the symptoms are, when to get medical advice and how to stop it spreading.