NEWS AND BULLETINS

  • Representing your profession at the Independence Day Reception

    Type:News item Categories: Publication date:3.12.2024

    Anniina Takala received an unexpected call this autumn, when the HR secretary of the Turku Emergency Response Centre contacted her about a letter with her name on it. − I remember sitting in the...

    Keywords: Keywords staff specialists

  • It is safe to talk about self-destructiveness

    Type:News item Categories: Publication date:10.9.2024

    On 10 September 2024, it is Suicide Prevention Day again. The aim of the day is to increase awareness of suicide and self-destructiveness and to reduce the stigma involved in suicide. Most...

    Keywords: Keywords services communication

  • Children are being taught how to recognise emergencies

    Type:News item Categories: Publication date:7.8.2024

    The Missing Children Europe federation is coordinating the ongoing KEEP SAFE -project, which is conducted in Finland under the direction of an NGO called Lasten perusoikeudet - Children’s...

    Keywords: Keywords communication

  • New guidelines to help operators in risk-assessment

    Type:News item Categories: Publication date:1.8.2024

    Last November, the emergency medical services centres of the collaborative areas for social welfare and healthcare services gave the Emergency Response Centre Agency revised guidelines for handling...

    Keywords: Keywords services emergency care

  • Non-urgent prehospital care assignments involve multi-professional cooperation

    Type:News item Categories: Publication date:23.7.2024

    When receiving an emergency call, the ERC operator will immediately begin to form a risk assessment and an understanding of what has happened. The risk assessment is based on instructions prepared...

    Keywords: Keywords services communication news

  • EU project teaches children about the emergency number

    Type:News item Categories: Publication date:9.6.2024

    Did you know that the European Commission has reserved the number 116 000 as the EU-wide missing children hotline? The aim is to ensure that missing children can be reported using the same hotline...

    Keywords: Keywords services communication news

  • Absences due to illness decreased and job satisfaction rose in 2023

    Type:Press release Categories: Publication date:15.3.2024

    At the end of 2023, the Emergency Response Centre Agency had 621 employees, accruing 608 person-workyears due to part-time contracts. The staffing situation improved from the previous year, when...

    Keywords: Keywords statistics
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