Now in its fourth year MAGPAS operates a Community First Responder Group within Warboys. This is a group of volunteers trained and equipped by MAGPAS to provide lifesaving treatment to the local residents prior to the arrival of an ambulance.

Community First Responders are volunteers who are notified by the ambulance service of a 999 call to a medical emergency within the local area. The Community First Responder is trained to treat people with cardiac arrest, breathing problems, chest pains, unconscious patients, fitting patients or diabetic patients. They do not attend children under the age of eight and because they are volunteers they provide cover only when they are available in the local area.

All training and equipment is provided by the charity MAGPAS which relies on generous donations from the community to enable the service to carry on. It cost £5000 for the group to be initially trained and equipped and it then costs MAGPAS approximately £50 per activation of a Community First Responder (47 during 2007).

If you would like to be involved in the local group, either volunteering or fundraising, then please contact Lorna Hayes on 01480 371060 or lorna@magpas.org.uk