Lower Erne Community First Responders

Public benefits

The direct benefits that flow from Lower Erne Community First Responders purposes are the provision of assistance to the Ambulance Service in life-saving intervention. The benefits of Lower Erne Community First Responders are demonstrated through the number of callouts that our team of Community First Responders attend. There is no harm flowing

from the purposes of Lower Erne Community First Responders The beneficiaries of Lower Erne Community First Responders are the general public living within and visiting the rural areas of County Fermanagh who are having a medical emergency as laid down by the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service as appropriate for assistance by a Community First Responder and are located within five miles of the home address of a Lower Erne Community First Responder. The only private benefit flowing from the association’s purposes are that Lower Erne Community First Responders trustees can avail of all services provided, this is incidental and necessary to ensure that all eligible members of the community can potentially avail of these and benefit.

What your organisation does

Community First Responders receive a text message once an ambulance has been dispatched by the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service to a patient in suspected cardiac arrest. As the First Responders live in rural areas they will in all likelihood arrive with the Patient before the Ambulance and can commence CPR immediately pending arrival of NIAS.