Welcome to the SARS website

The Suffolk Accident Rescue Service is a charitable organisation that provides medical care at the scene of emergencies, providing assistance to the East of England Ambulance Service in Suffolk and neighbouring counties. The service trains and equips participating doctors to help achieve this.

SARS 'live' stats for last 6 months (to 9th Feb 2010)

621 callouts (including standby),
228 attended,
73(32%) arrival before ambulance.

Road Traffic Collision - 139 (61% )
Medical - 46 (20% )
Fall - 9 (4% )
Cardiac Arrest - 8 (4% )
Equestrian - 8 (4% )
Stabbing - 3 (1% )
Suicide - 3 (1% )
Agricultural - 2 (1% )
Assault - 2 (1% )
Fire - 2 (1% )
Industrial - 2 (1% )
Air - 1 (0% )
Other - 1 (0% )
Rail - 1 (0% )
Sport - 1 (0% )

SARS doctors are unpaid and respond to emergencies on a voluntary basis. Our members are trained to provide the highest standard of emergency medical care to victims of accidents and other medical emergencies. SARS is a member of the Network for East of England Accident Rescue Schemes (NEEARS).

SARS is registered as a charity. SARS was established in 1972 and is an affiliated group member of the British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS).

Our callout statistics are listed here and are updated 'realtime' through our online database.

DATABASE - Integration with main website

By: Tim Watson on: Sat 30 of Jan., 2010 01:00 GMT (19 Reads)

Information for SARS members:
The database is now being integrated with the main website. It will be a while until it is functional.

Until further notice please use the link at the TOP of the page and not the link in the left hand menu to access the database. That is - please use the separate website (at www.sars999.info/datab) and not the database that might appear on this webpage. (I hope this is clear if not please do contact me - Tim)

Donation from Advent Modellers

By: Tim Watson on: Sun 20 of Dec., 2009 20:51 GMT (58 Reads)

The Advent Modellers organised a model railway show in aid of SARS in September this year. A cheque for £200 was presented on Thursday 10th December at their club room in Parham.

The cheque was accepted on behalf of SARS by our administrator Colin French (pictured).

WEBSITE - MAJOR UPGRADE

By: Tim Watson on: Wed 16 of Dec., 2009 14:26 GMT (56 Reads)

The website is undergoing a significant upgrade (to Tikiwiki 4.0) meaning that our website might not look quite right for a while. The upgrade will enable a lot of new features for our website.

Several sections of the website need a 'tidy up', particularly the forum section. Everything should look a lot better very soon.

Phase II of the upgrade is to merge the callout database back into the website.

Clinical Workshop: Circulation, Resuscitation and Haemostasis.

By: Tim Watson on: Fri 23 of Oct., 2009 13:21 BST (130 Reads)

When: 7.30pm Wednesday 28th October 2009
Where: Newmarket Fire Station, Willie Snaith Road, Newmarket

For who: members of SARS, EEAT staff.

• Circulatory physiology
• Damage control resuscitation
• IV access
• Fluid resuscitation
• Haemostasis
• Discussion

Annual report 2008-2009

By: Tim Watson on: Sat 17 of Oct., 2009 21:38 BST (145 Reads)

The Suffolk Accident Rescue Service Annual Report 2008-09 is now available.

Read it online here.

Dr Paul Silverston on BBC Radio Suffolk

By: on: Wed 29 of July, 2009 07:54 BST (218 Reads)

On Monday 26th July Dr Paul Silverston was interviewed on the Mark Murphy breakfast show to talk about our recruitment drive in the Ipswich area. Hear him on the Iplayer here (external link)

(at time 01:53:30).

He was also 'on the couch' on Tuesday 27th July with Leslie Dolphin. Hear this fascinating interview here (external link)

(at time 02:02). He talks about his work with SARS, his life as a GP and how he developed his interest in pre-hospital medicine.

If you are a doctor, particularly in the Ipswich area, and interested to find out more please contact us (details below).

New Website

By: tim on: Sun 21 of June, 2009 20:44 BST (204 Reads)

This is a website under ongoing development.

For SARS members the database has yet to be fully integrated with our new website. Please use www.sars999.info/datab until further notice.

Please note:

1) When logged in every page has an 'eye' if you click this you mark the page to be watched and you will be emailed if it changes. You can mark anything in the website in this way including discussion forums, news, phonebooks, literally anything. If you want to keep updated use this function.

2) There is a bug tracker - you can email me directly or enter any bugs you find on here and I will be automatically emailed. It also lists any known bugs or problems with the website so you can check here first to see if the problem is already known about.

Tim.