Community stories

How different is being an Angels consultant in Slovakia from being an Angels consultant in South Africa? What challenges do they face and what do they have in common? What is the best advice they have received, and when did they cry? Watch and listen to a conversation between Diana Urbáni from Slovakia and Bernise Schubert from South Africa, recorded at ESOC 2023.

Quality monitoring breathed new life into this emergency nurse’s career and catapulted two EMS centres in Tuscany onto the international awards stage. The good news is, Cristina Riganti is not done learning and growing.

Here you can read reports received by the Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Centre of Kharkiv Oblast in eastern Ukraine between 26 April 2022 and 19 July 2023. In each case, paramedics attend to a patient with suspected acute stroke while the war continues around them.

Battling to reduce their on-scene time when attending to stroke, Madrid’s SUMMA 112 undertook research about the impact of prenotification management in their complex city. The results yielded insights about old problems – and suggested new solutions.

Paramedic Mateusz Pitiło of Wałbrzych ambulance service shares the story of his stroke journey.

When a highly motivated stroke team joins forces with a highly motivated team of paramedics, it results in better outcomes for patients, and diamond awards all round.