NHS Single Sign-On Update – Improved and streamlined NHS login for a smoother, more secure experience. Introducing The Hub – A new central place to send various invite types and easily collect media. Activities Tab Enhancements – View scheduled activities and complete reports directly within the app. General Improvements – Minor updates and performance enhancements throughout.

Skills: In this App update, we have added the new “Skills” section. This enables organisations to set up new skills (such as flood response) with training packages in the App. Responders can then select the skill, undergo the training and be available to respond. Find it under the “Me” tab. If you’re a GoodSAM responder you’ll see skills becoming available over the next few months! Apple Liquid Glass: We have also reworked the App to configure to the sleek look of Liquid Glass.

Minor improvements and bug fixes.

Lone working support – If your organisation has enabled this, before going into someone’s house simply select the time you expect to be out, and if you aren’t, the organisation is informed. “Future Tasks” has been renamed as “Activities”. “Activity Completed” button now has customisable outcomes. Alert / Task Acceptance – the “Reject” button has changed to “decline”. Professionals – The “Invites” and “Media” tabs now display the team’s name and can be searchable by the team name.

- Minor bug fixes.

This is a major update for the GoodSAM alerting / tasking / volunteering module! There are some under the hood changes which support multiple new volunteering roles and opportunities. In addition, you will see buttons relating to: Lone Working Module: Organisations can now activate “lone working” for safety. This means that when a responder enters someone’s home, they can select how long they intend to be there for. If they are not out within that timeframe, the system can alert the host organisation and trigger a safety response. Currently this is being used for the NHS Volunteer responder programme, but other organisations will start in the coming months. Mobile Equipment: You can now state if you carry lifesaving equipment in addition to a defibrillator. This includes, bleed kits, naloxone for opioid reversal and epi-pens. This system is being set up so that ambulance services (if they wish), can alert specific people (e.g. police officers who carry naloxone) to specific incidents (e.g. opioid related unconsciousness). Currently, selecting these will not mean you get alerted, however, over the coming months, this functionality will start to be trialled. Equipment Registry: We also have increased our AED Registry to include bleed kits, water rescue and fire equipment. Please help us compile this data set in the same way we have done for AEDs. We have partnered with the Royal Lifesaving Society who will manage the water rescue equipment data. This means missing life rings etc can be reported to them directly and they can initiate the process to get them replaced. Thank you once again for being part of our wonderful community! All the very best for 2024!

This new update provides a new “Loan Working” module to improve volunteer and responder safety. This especially applies to our NHS Volunteer responders. If you’re going into someone’s house for example, simply set the duration of time you intend to be there for as you go in. At the end of that time, the system will check you have left. If you haven’t or don’t respond, a safeguarding process is started to ensure you are safe. As always, there are many other under the hood changes to improve your user experience. This is in addition to our last major update which enabled the mapping of rescue equipment including: AEDs Bleed kits Water rescue equipment Outdoor fire equipment This is an incredibly useful system that can help the emergency services guide people to equipment when needed. Thank you for helping map this and keep it up to date and thank you again for being part of our wonderful community.

In addition to being able to map fixed resources such as AEDs, bleed kits, water rescue and fire equipment, this update brings the ability to register if you are carrying life saving equipment. You can now indicate under the me tab if you are carrying: An AED Bleed / trauma kit Naloxone An Epipen. This enables emergency services to specifically alert those who have this equipment to specific emergencies. This does not affect the normal cardiac response and the code of conduct should still be followed if a cardiac responder. There is also a “I am physically fit and can lift” toggle. This means emergency and voluntary services can request help from those nearby in manual tasks such as lifting patients and deploying sandbags in flooding.

GoodSAM are excited to announce our new “Emergency Kit Register”!   In addition to mapping defibrillators, the platform now maps Bleed Kits, Water Rescue and Outdoor Fire Equipment. Please help us map these by taking a photograph of equipment that is in a fixed location and uploading it using the new kit icon located on the map.   Other additional features within this update include: - Easier registration – anyone can register to be a GoodSAM responder from within the App - Additional role support for the NHS Volunteer Responder Scheme - Under the hood changes   Thank you again for being part of the GoodSAM community!

- Fixing a minor bug with the registration form which was causing the certificate expiry date to reset itself.

- Adding the ability to use call-signs when switching on duty. (Needs to be turned on by the parent organisation.) - Adding the ability to send on-off and templated messages. (Needs to be turned on by the parent organisation.)

- Adding a new "stand down" notification sound. - Improving the live streaming quality.

- Fixing the registration page to allow the selection of occupation. - Fixing the share button for iPads.

- Allowing users of the "GoodSAM Instant-On-Scene" to be able to send out "Chat Requests". - Replacing "On-duty" hours with the number of tasks accepted. - Removing the patient name and patient age from the Cardiac Arrest Feedback Reports. - Minor improvements.

- Minor bug fixes and improvements.

- Supporting Apple iPads. - Minor improvement and enhancements.

GoodSAM is now providing Video Pathways to Ambulance and Police Services, for example enabling emergency callers video to be forwarded directly to an on-call hospital team. This has considerable benefits in speeding patients to the right resource for their needs. As such, there are some new functions to support this: - If a live stream is forwarded to you, you can view it by simply tapping on the push notification. - If a recorded stream is forwarded to you, you can view it by simply tapping on the push notification. - If you have been invited to a consultation (either directly or via video pathways), you can join it by simply tapping on the push notification.

- Improving the app for the transport volunteers by adding specific buttons under the "actions" tab. - Minor improvements.

- Minor improvements.

- Fixing minor bugs.

- You can now update your phone number from the ID tab. - Minor improvements and bug fixes.

- You can now sign in with your NHS or Microsoft account.

It’s Shocktober with Restart-A-Heart day coming up on 16th October - welcome if you are signing up to GoodSAM for the first time. To make things more streamlined for NHS staff, we now support NHS single sign on - simply click the NHS login button once downloaded, confirm you are CPR trained and log in - that’s it! And for everyone else, please simply upload ID / Evidence of First Aid training and register under your organisation if listed, or GoodSAM if not. Thank you for being part of our wonderful community!

- Fixing a minor bug.

This update provides: Filtering of future tasks for NHS volunteers - you can now search for tasks near you based on the date, how far you wish to travel and task type. Feedback - tell us what you think when you have completed a shift. This enables us to improve volunteer experiences for everyone. General improvements - we are always making improvements, not just for the NHS volunteers but also the police, fire and ambulance services who use the platform.