Staff return to revamped base at Hereford ambulance station (From Hereford Times)

Staff return to revamped base at Hereford ambulance station

7:00am Saturday 7th January 2012 in Health By Paul Rogers

STAFF have returned to the newly refurbished Ambulance station in Hereford.

The building in Romany Way, off Ross Road, now has better facilities, including a kitchen, mess room, changing rooms, toilets, showers, offices and a training room for staff.

It also enables West Midlands Ambulance Service to comply with infection prevention control standards to which they must adhere.

During the refurbishment, staff and vehicles were moved to units at Rotherwas Industrial Estate.

“The new station is a vast improvement on our old building,” said Debbie Small of West Midlands Ambulance Service’s “make ready”

operations for Herefordshire.

“I’m very impressed with the new station and so are the staff who are working from here for the first time since its reopening.”

Contractors will remain on the site, however, creating a brand new building on the station’s outlying land, which will become the new workshops and “hub” as part of the service’s “make ready” plans.

The hub will be a round-the-clock vehicle preparation and maintenance depot where a team of assistants will clean, service, repair and stock the county’s fleet of ambulances.