There are a number of ways you can get involved and make a positive contribution to your local ambulance service 

Community Engagement

True involvement of local communities is the ethos that underpins everything we do at East Midlands Ambulance Service, and we welcome and value your input in helping us to achieve this aim.

We actively seek to involve patients and the public (and those who represent them) in our decision making, ensuring that we engage with Health Scrutiny Committees and community and patient representative groups so that our services reflect local need. Click here to find out more.

Join us our journey to becoming an NHS Foundation Trust

We have started a journey to becoming an NHS Foundation Trust and we would really like you to join us.

We want to involve you, the people we serve, on our journey to improving ambulance services in the East Midlands. 

To do this we need you to become a member of our Trust.

By becoming a member of our Trust you will have the opportunity to get involved in the decisions we make and to influence the way in which we plan and develop our services. Members can work with us to inform us of their needs and of the services our local communities would like us to deliver. Click here to find out more.

Become a Community First Responder

And more than 400 of you have already been recruited and trained throughout the East Midlands as Community First Responders to provide immediate first aid care to patients while an ambulance is on its way.

These volunteer lifesavers work with us to respond to critical medical emergencies and are trained to use lifesaving defibrillators should a person suffer a heart attack.

The Community First Responders provide a vital life-saving link between the patient and the arrival of paramedics on the scene. Click here to find out more.

Volunteer as an ambulance car driver      

Want to be directly involved? Our volunteer ambulance car drivers also carry out an extremely important role within our patient transport service, for example by taking people to and from hospital for outpatients appointments.  All our voluntary drivers receive a mileage allowance for the work they do and normally spend most of their time working in their local area. Click here to find out more.

Whatever your voluntary involvement or interest with EMAS, we thank you for your generous contribution and commitment to the team. 

Together we can make a difference.