The BEEP Doctors charity have received a grant of over £80,000 from the Mark Benevolent Fund.

The Cumbrian charity was presented with a cheque worth £83,500 from the Freemasons of West Cumbria which will be used to pay for some equipment that will help the volunteer doctors save even more lives across the county.

The new equipment has been put to good use already during Storm Arwen at the weekend.

Theo Weston, Charman of BEEP said: “We would like to extend a huge thank you to the Mark Benevolent Fund for this huge donation to BEEP Doctors.

“The new equipment will make an enormous difference to the work that we do attending the sick and injured at the roadside in Cumbria.

“In fact, it’s the first time in over 25 years that we’ve been able to equip all fifteen doctors with full state of the art monitoring and defibrillation capabilities and therefore we will be able to provide a lot more substantial and reliable care to the patients that we treat.

“This is a massive step forward for the Charity as we move towards a much more robust, reliable & resilient IT based patient monitoring & treatment set-up.

"So, thank you from all our doctors and the people of Cumbria who will benefit from this, for making this possible.”

With the generous funding the BEEP Doctors have been able to purchase seven Shiller ‘Touch 7’ Monitor/Defibrillators, plus nine Schiller AED Defibrillators. The monitors observe all the essential physiological parameters that the doctors need for treating patients, especially the sickest ones.

The parameters include blood pressure, heart rate, blood oxygen saturations, expired air carbon dioxide, respiratory rate, 12-lead ECG monitoring as well as defibrillating/shocking the heart, external heart pacing & external DC conversion for abnormal heart rhythms.