The London Ambulance Service (LAS) includes a motorcycle response unit that can quickly reach patients in congested urban areas. The team of 30 paramedics may be the unsung heroes of the LAS, but one of their own, Richard Webb-Stevens, recently received the Queen’s Ambulance Service Medal for Distinguished Service.
Webb-Stevens started his 23-year career as a member of London’s Air Ambulance. Born with profound hearing loss, he also became the first deaf paramedic to work for the emergency helicopter medical service. When a terrorist drove a car into a crowd of pedestrians outside the Palace of Westminster in 2017, killing four people and injuring 50 more, Webb-Stevens provided prompt care to countless victims.
