South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) will be hosting the first UK National Ambulance LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender) Network conference at the Amex Stadium, Brighton on Friday, 5 August. All NHS ambulance staff are invited to attend the conference free of charge. SECAmb have secured established key note speakers for the conference and key themes are linked t
A second round of roadshows about the relocation to Crawley will be taking place in July. During the last set of roadshows a significant area of concern raised by staff was the issue of travel to the new HQ and West EOC. As a result, the HQ and EOC project team have invited easit along to this next lot of roadshows. As we will be moving to the site in Manor Royal, staff will have the opportunity t
A South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) paramedic is taking up the charity challenge to cycle the Prudential Ride London to Surrey 100 on 31 July. Ambulance paramedic Stuart Loughrey and his father Graham will be raising money for the Woking Sam Beare hospice, after the hospice cared for their friend Barry who died at the age of 49 in December 2015. Brentford Football Club supporter Stuart,
Sussex Police is working with ambulance and fire colleagues to trace those who worked at the scene of the Brighton bombing in 1984 It is possible that they may have been potentially exposed to asbestos within debris of The Grand hotel. Assistant Chief Constable Steve Barry, who is leading an emergency services group co-ordinating the effort, said: “We are trying to identify and inform emergency se
Sussex Police is working with ambulance and fire colleagues to trace those who worked at the scene of the Brighton bombing in 1984 It is possible that they may have been potentially exposed to asbestos within debris of The Grand hotel. Assistant Chief Constable Steve Barry, who is leading an emergency services group co-ordinating the effort, said: “We are trying to identify and inform emergency se
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is asking the public for its continued support as demand across the region remains high. Across its Kent, Surrey and Sussex region the Trust has responded to close to 350,000 999 calls since January this year (to 19 June) – up more than 30,000 on the same period in 2015. The Trust is working hard to meet this additional demand but ac
Clinical Pathways are doing a survey to find out how clinicians are using GPOOH services during July. We are hoping that this will give us some soIid data on how long crews are waiting on scene for call-backs, and the types of complaints they are asking for GPOOH help with. This will help us improve our services. We are asking that all clinical staff answer a few simple questions when they go to
Canadian paramedic firefighter and artist Daniel Sundahl will be visiting the Trust on Saturday, 18 June to meet staff and gain inspiration for images of UK emergency services. Dan has been a full-time paramedic in Canada for 13 years where he has developed a passion for emergency services artwork to help raise awareness of mental health and PTSD amongst the public safety community. He will be s
As part of our migration to Office 365, we are now moving email accounts into the Cloud, which means Microsoft will manage the security and availability of the email system and the processing of your email. SECAmb IT staff will continue to support the email system and liaise with Microsoft where necessary. Your mailbox is scheduled for migration overnight on Wednesday 14th June 2017. For desktop,
SECAmb ambulances and HART are on scene at a fire involving three ambulances outside East Surrey Hospital at Redhill this afternoon. No staff or patients were on board. The Crawley Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) have been mobilised to cover the incident which is believed have affected part of the building as well. Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust report the fire service were on scene qu