Members of the public are being given the opportunity to learn how to save a life as South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) delivers CPR training at a number of public locations across Kent, Surrey and Sussex this Restart a Heart Day (Thursday 16 October). Those trained in CPR are also being encouraged to sign up to the GoodSam phone app – an app used by ambulance services to alert indi
Photo credit: Everdrone We’re proud to be part of a project which will test how drones could be integrated into the UK’s 999 emergency response system to rapidly deliver defibrillators to patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). The project has been launched by the University of Surrey, Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex and SECAmb and has been funded by the National Inst
South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) Chief Executive, Simon Weldon, is taking on the challenge of running the Brighton Marathon in support of the Trust’s newly-relaunched charity. Simon will take to the city’s streets on April 12, 2026, to raise funds for the charity which aims to support SECAmb staff, volunteers, patients and communities with projects and resources beyond what is able to b
A toddler who stopped breathing at 16 weeks old has been reunited with the ambulance team who helped to save her life, just months before she starts primary school. Now three-year-old Nancy, from Deal, visited Thanet Make Ready Centre on Monday, 22 September with her mum, Louise, to thank Advanced Paramedic Practitioner Rachel, Paramedic Killian and Dispatch Team Leader Tyler, who all rushed to h
For our youngest-ever governor, it is the link he and his colleagues provide between our service and the public which makes our governor role essential. 18-year-old Zak Foley, from Brighton, embarked on his journey with SECAmb in 2023 when he was elected as a public governor for Brighton and East Sussex at the age of just 16. Now, in addition to beginning a paramedic science degree at the Universi
New parents from Seaford, Amanda Feast and Phill Stevenson, recently reunited with the ambulance team that helped deliver their first baby boy at home. Now four-month-old, Phoenix, Amanda and Phill recently visited South East Coast Ambulance Service’s (SECAmb’s) Polegate Make Ready Centre where they reunited with the ambulance team that helped bring their first baby into the world – Critical Care
We’re coming to the end of this year’s #30Days30Ways campaign which SECAmb has been supporting, highlighting throughout September how to get more ’emergency ready’ and build community resilience. Today’s theme is about volunteering. As well as being a great way to meet and connect with others, learn new skills and make a real difference, volunteering provides a solid
The fast actions of a group of friends who began CPR immediately after a Sittingbourne man collapsed on the tennis court, have been credited with saving his life. Tim was playing doubles tennis at a friend’s house in Lynsted, Kent on 26 May this year, when he suddenly felt faint and collapsed to the floor. Witnessing his collapse, Tim’s friends immediately checked for a pulse, dialled 999 and beg
A large-scale emergency exercise saw SECAmb teams working alongside Surrey Police and Surrey Fire & Rescue. Royal Holloway University in Egham was the setting for Exercise Whitehall, simulating the after-effects of a rave on a student campus with 20 patients who had been involved in an altercation and others who had taken recreational substances. “This joint initiative brought together 4
Thanks to the life-saving actions of two bystanders and SECAmb clinicians, cardiac arrest survivor, Michael Wilde, got to celebrate his 81st birthday and 52 years of marriage. Michael and his wife, Ruth, recently visited our Tangmere Make Ready Centre, where they met with some of his lifesavers including Paramedics Steve Leggatt and Chelsey Lallem-Haylock, Trainee Associate Ambulance Practitioner