Ambulance subscription numbers up

Subscription numbers have increased by 20% in the first few weeks of the Ambulance and Rescue Service’s annual campaign. 

Which means around 400 extra people have asked themselves the question we are posing: “can you afford not to have a subscription?” and decided to opt in. An annual subscription costs £71. 

We’re asking you to join them. 

Chief Ambulance Officer Mark Mapp said: “This single subscription of £71 represents extraordinary value as it covers over £15,000 worth of medical care cover. I know thinking that you’re going to need an ambulance is something you don’t want to consider, but the truth is we attend 10,000 emergency and transport call outs a year and you could be among them. An emergency ambulance costs £585 and if you’re in Sark and need the Flying Christine, that’s £2,420. That is added stress in emergency. And there is no need for this to be the case. 

“Please have a conversation in your house about whether you can afford to not have a subscription. It is worth having this conversation with friends and relatives too – because if your household needs more than one emergency response in a year, the costs are quickly going to add up, and a simple £71 subscription is going to prevent that from happening. We are in the odd position of recommending something we hope you never need to use – but if you do, you really won’t regret taking it out. No one plans to have an accident, but you can plan to have a subscription. Just ask yourself, “can I afford not to?” 

Last year one in four people who needed an ambulance did not have a subscription. Don’t be one of them. 

Subscriptions can be taken out online, in person at Guernsey Post or at the ambulance  HQ at Blanchford House, Rohais. 

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