South East Coast Ambulance Service’s NHS Foundation Trust’s (SECAmb) innovative electronic Patient Clinical Record (ePCR) project is being rolled out across the Trust’s region following successful trials in Thanet, Kent. The project, in which clinicians are personally issued with iPads, enables ambulance crews to complete patient records electronically, streamline communication with hospitals, sav
We know we need to support our staff to be well in themselves in order to be able to deliver the vital role that you each play in responding to our community. We want to hear your voice and listen to your needs, so we can respond with a new Health and Wellbeing Strategy and action plan, ready for the New Year. Please come and share your thoughts, questions and comments at one of our focus groups
We are supporting Fraud Awareness Month and International Fraud Awareness Week (13-19 November) as part of our commitment to creating a culture where fraud and bribery against SECAmb and the wider NHS is not tolerated. Throughout the month we want to increase awareness amongst staff of fraud and bribery related issues pertinent to the NHS, such as conflicts of interest, gifts and hospitality and
A teenager who suffered life-threatening injuries and spent a month in an induced coma after being hit by a car has been hailed a miracle by the ambulance crews and hospital teams who saved his life. 16-year-old Taz Moyo suffered a serious head injury on 16 July this year and, after receiving life-saving treatment from South East Coast Ambulance Service clinicians and the air ambulance service, wa
Healthcare acquired infections (HAI) result in significant mortality and morbidity internationally. It is estimated that 30 per cent of HCAIs are preventable. Due to the invasive nature of clinical procedures involving aseptic technique, health care workers are inherently a significant vector of infection. Of course, health care professionals do not set out to harm patients during clinical procedu
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is urging people to be sensible and stay safe and injury free this bonfire and firework season. SECAmb is asking that people follow some simple safety tips and advice and that they use common sense to keep themselves, their family and friends safe. The Trust is also advising people to attend local professionally-organised events. Any
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is today, Friday 28th October 2016, able to publish the Patient Impact Review into the Red 3 Pilot undertaken at the end of 2014. Patient Impact Review in the Red 3 Pilot The report was required as part of the formal undertakings that the Trust was asked to complete by NHS Improvement (previously Monitor), in addition to the forensic
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) inspired local schools and children’s groups to drive forward CPR awareness as part of the Europe-wide initiative Restart a Heart. The Trust achieved the amazing results of training close to 8,500 children and some adults in 88 locations across Kent, Surrey and Sussex. By linking with the Resuscitation Council’s European Restart a He
As part of the work we are doing to improve governance in the Trust, we are proposing a new, hopefully clearer and better, way of developing and signing off policies, procedures and guidelines. This will which will ensure there is up front engagement with key stakeholders, that documents are approved by ‘subject experts’, that Equality Analysis is undertaken, and that a dissemination/communication
Ambulance crews have begun operating out of South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust’s (SECAmb) newest Make Ready Centre in Polegate, East Sussex. A phased opening saw clinicians begin to report to the new centre, located at the Polegate bypass roundabout, yesterday (Monday 17 October). All of Heathfield, Hailsham and Eastbourne ambulance crews will be reporting to the new centre by