GPs at Handsworth Medical Practice have been praised for their efforts helping victims of a bus crash at Highams Park in North East London on Tuesday.
The bus crashed in a shop on Selwyn Avenue in Highams Park, Chingford, on Tuesday 25 January at around 8.20am, the Metropolitan Police told the BBC.
A passenger on the bus told MyLondon the doctors and paramedics at the practice, who checked many of the ‘walking’ victims before they were sent home, were ‘kind’ and ‘careful’.
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson said: ‘We were called at 8.19am this morning (25 January) to reports of an incident involving a bus on The Broadway, Higham Park.
‘We sent a number of resources to the scene including ambulance crews, advanced paramedics, clinical team managers, paramedics in fast response cars, incident response officers and members of our Hazardous Area Response Team (HART). We also dispatched a trauma team from London’s Air Ambulance.
‘Working with our emergency service colleagues we treated and assessed 19 people at the scene.
‘Of those 19, we took five people to hospital, including three children and two adults.’
Handsworth Medical Practice confirmed to Pulse that it had helped some of the victims of the accident.
It comes as a GP trainee was first on the scene of the 2017 terror attack on Westminster Bridge.
Meanwhile, in 2005, members of the BMA’s GP Committee were the first doctors on the scene to treat victims of the London terror attack on a bus in Tavistock Square.
