Charity News

Magpas Air Ambulance is a Cambridgeshire based charity that provides lifesaving prehospital emergency care, in the air or on land 24/7, including treatments normally only available in hospital. From the 1 July 2020 – 30 June 2021 (the charity’s financial year), Magpas Air Ambulance were called to 1,269 serious medical emergencies, performed 150 general anaesthetics, 71 sedations, 49 surgical procedures, treated one child every week on average and flew over 40,000 air miles! As well as providing their primary service, Magpas Air Ambulance also became one of only three air ambulances in the country to assist the NHS with national inter-hospital transfers of critically ill COVID-19 patients. Despite the huge challenges the charity faced throughout the pandemic, the Magpas Air Ambulance doctors and paramedics continued to save lives around the clock. Thankfully, the community support for this crucial local service also continued and their fundraising team are now thrilled to be getting back out in the community once more to raise the vital funds needed to keep the air ambulance flying. This is a crucial time for the charity, as it reaches its 50th anniversary and they look to the next 50 years of saving lives and keeping families together in Cambridgeshire and beyond. If you can donate to Magpas Air Ambulance’s lifesaving cause, please visit donate.magpas.org.uk

Are you an employer in Cambridgeshire or Peterborough? The Healthy Workplace service knows that people are your greatest asset and healthier workplaces are more productive workplaces. Would you like support improving your staff health and wellbeing? The Healthy Workplace service can help, and our service offer includes: • Support in understanding your workplace health and wellbeing needs via our needs assessment and support creating a plan of action to address those needs • A variety of health and wellbeing training, including Mental Health First Aider • Network events and resources Workplace Wellbeing week is a fantastic opportunity to find out more, network with other businesses and sample some of what the service has to offer your workplace. Some of the sessions lined up for the WWW include: ➣ MECC lite training (limited to 12 spaces) ➣ Network Leads taster session ➣ What are Sleep Ambassadors? ➣ Netwalking sessions (these are face to face)

➣ Mental Health policies in practice ➣ What is Workplace Chaplaincy? ➣ Mental Health and finance ➣ Are you a Carer at work? ➣ More sessions to come! For more information, please contact HealthyWorkplace@everyoneheath.co.uk. To find out more and book online, go to https:// healthyworkplacescp.co.uk/workplace-wellbeing-week/