Cumbria Health on Call (CHoC) are pleased to announce that they have awarded the local BEEP Doctors service a donation of £1,000 from their Social Enterprise Awards Fund.
CHoC is a Social Enterprise and the certification guarantees that CHoC are working to improve society, whilst demonstrating CHoC’s social values in providing support and resources to help others. CHoC established the Social Enterprise Awards Fund in 2016, to support CHoC staff who wanted to be involved in charity events for local causes.
CHoC team member, Sarah Taylor-Howe, applied to the CHoC Social Enterprise Fund after seeing the recent BEEP Doctors funding campaign. The BEEP service has been established in Cumbria since 1994 and offers skilled emergency doctors to help at the scenes of accident. The 16 doctors are all unpaid and are on call 24/7 – even during the covid pandemic, when many of them have been working in hospitals and the local community. They provide enhanced medical interventions which are not normally able to be provided by paramedics at the roadside (such as pre-hospital anaesthetics, surgical interventions, wider range of drugs etc) thereby stabilising critically ill or injured patients long before they reach hospital. This will ultimately lead to better survivability of these patients. In essence they are bringing the A&E treatments to the patient.
Sarah Taylor-Howe from CHoC said, “the charity is a long-standing local Cumbrian charity, with very similar values to CHoC. The doctors are unpaid local GP’s and A&E Consultants working to support other partner services. I have only ever heard positive feedback about the service they provide, and their quick arrival at scenes have saved many lives”.
Dr Theo Weston is the founder of the BEEP Doctors and states that this is a vital service for this area in addition to the excellent care provided by paramedics but which provides quicker on scene medical stability to critically ill or injured patients by the provision of enhanced medical care when it can take a long time to reach hospital in such a rural are. We are very grateful indeed for this very generous donation because without this and other donations from members of the public we would be unable to operate.
The BEEP charity have kicked off 2021 with a new campaign to drive their fundraising forward and look to raise £145,000 for new lifesaving monitors to equip all our volunteer doctors and give more patients the chance of survival. CHoC would encourage others to support this vital service if you can.
In the Photo is Dr Theo Weston GP and found of the BEEP doctors service (left) and Zoe Heaven, HR Assistant on behalf of CHoC (right).
