Minutes of the meeting held on 5 October 2009 in the LIC, room 703
Present: Jerry, Mike, Jane, Katrina, Diane, Dave, Syed, Chris, Iain
Apologies:
| 1 | Minutes of August meeting (3 August 2009) | |
| Accepted without amendments or changes. | ||
| 2 | Matters arising | |
| None. | ||
| 3 | Calls received | |
| There have been only 2 calls since the last meeting, both on the same day, 6th July. These calls overlapped, so while Iain and Mike were dealing with a call in Preseli - and were in a signal blackspot - the second call came in and was dealt with by Jerry and Katrina. Both calls were discussed and it was clear that communication problems were still having an impact on our operations. | ||
| 4 | Ambulance Control visit | |
| Two visits had been planned to the control room in Carmarthen, the first on Tuesday 13th October and the second the following Monday, 19th October. Arrangements had been made to take one of the university mini buses and it had been confirmed by Alyson Spence that staff with clean, full licences could drive. Full details would follow via email. | ||
| 5 | Revised Protocol | |
| Jerry explained that Gerrard Rothwell (Welsh Ambulance Trust FR Trainer) didn't like our existing on-scene protocol for an unconscious, non-breathing casualty because it didn't give sufficient priority to deploying the AED. He had made this known during a recent FR refresher training session in Pennard. Jerry had modified the protocol in the light of his comments and a few trial runs during the bi-monthly training session on 7th September had shown that with the new protocol a shock can be delivered within 30 seconds of attending a scene. This will obviously crop up again in the forthcoming refresher session on 12th October and a new protocol would be distributed in due course. | ||
| 6 | Training | |
| A refresher training is arranged for Monday 12th October. All those who should attend have been contacted. Gerrard would be taking the course. | ||
| 7 | Any other business | |
| 7.1 | Following requests from some team members Jerry will attempt to draw up a new shift structure to start from the beginning of November. It was noted that Mike will be retiring at the end of October, Ana will be on long-term placement for much of the next year and that Tony would be finishing. We really need some new volunteers so Jerry will try to put pressure on Steve Roberts to arrange a new volunteer training session. ACTION: JERRY | |
| 8 | Date of next training session and business meeting | |
| Training session - Monday 2 November 2009 @ 1.00 pm in room 703. | ||
| Meeting - Monday 7 December 2009 @ 1.00 pm in room 703. | ||
| JGC 22/10/09 | ||