Family to frontline: How busy mum helped build Northern Ireland’s longest established independent ambulance service

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Love Your Local: Heather Hamill-Vaughan, managing director of Proparamedics in Belfast, tells of how a ‘few days’ helping out in her brother’s business turned into a life’s work spanning 25 years

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00:00My name is Megan Hamill and I'm the training manager at Pro Paramedics.

00:09Pro Paramedics started in 1999 by my uncle John who was a paramedic.

00:15Back then we were based in what was the Odyssey Arena and we started just purely as event

00:19medical cover.

00:21We started with two ambulances and have now grown to 130 staff with over 20 ambulances.

00:28At Pro Paramedics we offer services such as event medical cover, we do private transfers

00:34of patients as well as transfers of patients for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service.

00:39We also do critical care services such as working in the GP out of hours, patient repatriations

00:45and we do a whole body and range of first aid medical training.

00:48At Pro Paramedics we cover a huge range of events across Northern Ireland.

00:53We cover Balmoral Show, we cover all of the football events for IFA, we cover all of the

01:00events for the big concert venues here, the SSE Arena, the Ulster Hall, the Waterfront

01:06Hall, we also cover Downroyal Racecourse.

01:10Pro Paramedics prides itself on raising the standards and being the industry leaders.

01:15It's very important to Pro Paramedics in an industry that is not regulated for ambulance

01:19companies that we provide the highest possible standard of event medical cover with highly

01:25trained and skilled staff.

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