South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is pleased to announce the appointment of a new independent Non-Executive Director. Tricia McGregor, from Epsom, Surrey, will initially serve a three-year term from 1 January 2018 and fills a vacant clinical specialism post. Tricia is a speech and language therapist and a visiting professor in the School of Health Sciences at the Uni
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is pleased to announce the appointment of two new substantive Executive Directors. Steve Emerton has been appointed to the role of Executive Director of Strategy and Business Development and will join the Trust on 2 January 2018. Ed Griffin has been appointed to the role of Executive Director of HR and Organisation Development and wi
A new set of ambulance response standards, aimed at delivering the quickest response possible for the most critically-ill or injured patients, will be introduced in South East Coast Ambulance Service from next week (22 November). The new nationally-determined standards, which have been introduced across the country in recent months, see current Red 1, Red 2 and Green category calls replaced with f
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published its report following a planned inspection of South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) in May 2017. While the report recognises that progress since the previous inspection in May 2016 has been made in some areas, it concludes this has not been as rapid or as widespread as it might have been, meaning the Trust continues to
South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) is looking forward to welcoming Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) staff from Banstead as they join their colleagues at the Trust’s new EOC and HQ in Crawley. Staff currently based at Banstead will work their first shift at the Trust’s Manor Royal site from the morning of Tuesday 5 September. They will also join their colleagues in Crawley and the Trust’s
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has today (4 August) published a large-scale independent report to help it better understand and help tackle bullying and harassment issues at the Trust. The independent report, which was commissioned by SECAmb itself, and produced by Professor Duncan Lewis from Plymouth University, follows concerns raised in the Trust’s staff survey
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is set for the second phase of migration to a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), system. The new system is well established and currently in use in three other UK ambulance trusts, and has been operating at the Trust’s Coxheath EOC East in Kent since 5 July 2017. The CAD is the system used to record all data related to 999 and urgent requests
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has been awarded the ‘Gold Standard’ for the fourth year running at the Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (enei) awards. SECAmb was recognised with the ‘Gold Standard’ alongside Santander, Zurich Insurance, Nationwide Building Society and legal firm DWF at the awards which were held at the Law Society in London yesterday
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is pleased to have completed an order for 42 new ambulances to serve its region. The vehicles, which will replace ageing ambulances across Sussex, Surrey and Kent, are expected to hit the roads by the new calendar year. They are then expected to be rolled out at a rate of four vehicles each week. The vehicles follow the design of the
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is pleased to be welcoming the first staff at its new Emergency Operations Centre and HQ in Manor Royal, Crawley, West Sussex. Staff from Lewes Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) begin working from the new control room next week (24 May) with support staff from the Trust’s offices in Lewes, Coxheath and former HQ in Banstead, starting