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Down District First Response Service

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  • Charity no. 106343
  • Date registered. 05/05/2017

Public benefits

The public benefit that flows from our purpose is the provision of assistance to the Ambulance Service in life-saving intervention. The benefit is demonstrated through the number of callouts we respond to. No harm will necessarily or intentionally result from any life-saving intervention. Incidental harm may arise if a patient’s ribs are cracked

during external cardiac pressure. However, this is a well recognized unintentional clinical outcome. The beneficiaries are patients within the Organisations Operational Area. There is no private benefit to any person involved in this organization. Incidental benefit arises to any individual whose life is saved through life-saving intervention.

What your organisation does

The organisation will respond to 999 calls originating in an isolated rural area, and forwarded by Northern Ireland Ambulance Service control room: to offer to heart attack victims and similarly affected citizens the opportunity in the first "few golden minutes" of receiving professionally trained support to keep them alive until further medical

assistance can be brought to bear.

The charity’s classifications

  • The advancement of health or the saving of lives

Who the charity helps

  • Adult training
  • Children (5-13 year olds)
  • General public
  • Men
  • Preschool (0-5 year olds)
  • Voluntary and community sector
  • Volunteers
  • Women
  • Youth (14-25 year olds)

How the charity works

  • Community development
  • Education/training
  • Medical/health/sickness
  • Rural development
  • Volunteer development
  • Youth development

Charitable purposes

The relief of sickness of persons in the County Down area, hereinafter referred to as the area of benefit, in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, by responding to Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) requests to attend cardiovascular and similar emergencies.

Governing document

Constitution

Other name

  • DDFRS

List of regions

  • Newry, Mourne And Down District Council

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