{"id":435295,"date":"2025-09-19T05:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/435295\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T05:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:06:23","slug":"barking-111-call-handlers-win-london-ambulance-service-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/435295\/","title":{"rendered":"Barking 111 call handlers win London Ambulance Service Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The competition, known as the LAS Cup, is organised for staff and to raise money for the London Ambulance Charity, which supports frontline staff with well-being initiatives and CPR training.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Barking Tigers, a team made up of 111 call handlers, won the tournament after a final against the Deptford Panthers, a team of ambulance crews from Deptford Ambulance Station and former champions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Samir Patel, a 111 health advisor and team manager for the Barking Tigers, said: &#8220;It was an amazing feeling to win.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The game was a rematch of the 2022 match with Deptford, so nerves were high but winning was such a relief.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We had an excellent team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We worked together to get our tactics right on the pitch by understanding our strengths and weaknesses.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The tournament, which saw 14 teams made up of various LAS staff compete at Burgess Park, raised \u00a3900 for the London Ambulance Charity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The charity is now calling on Londoners to join their flagship fundraising event, the London Life Hike, on September 27, to raise funds for life-saving defibrillators in communities that need them most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The competition, known as the LAS Cup, is organised for staff and to raise money for the London&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-435295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115229228048857288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}