SOUTH Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) has received a donation of over 1,500 snack packs.

With demand on its ambulance service at unprecedented levels, SCAS said they were very grateful to be offered the generous donation from Rapid Relief Team UK.

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The snacks were formally received at the Trust's North Harbour Resource Centre in Portsmouth on Wednesday, March 2 and will be distributed to staff.

Mark Ainsworth, director of operations at SCAS, said: "Our 999 colleagues in our control rooms and out on the road are working incredibly hard at the moment with a level of demand we have not seen before.

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"This means that sadly too often many of our frontline staff out on the road are having late meal breaks, long waits at hospitals to handover patients and continuing to deliver their usual high levels of patient care after the end of their allocated shift.”

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