With fireworks season fast approaching, South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is supporting National Burns Awareness Day on Wednesday 19 October by reminding people of the importance of administering the right first aid for burns and scalds. While most burns are usually minor, giving the right first aid quickly following a burn or a scald can significantly improve a pers
Calling all those staff who are eligible for their long service awards and those who wish to nominate staff for their outstanding achievements, it’s awards time! The awards ceremonies will be held at: East ceremony The Orangery, Turkey Mill, Maidstone, at 7pm on Thursday, 23 February 2017 West ceremonyWoodlands Park Hotel, Cobham, at 7pm on Thursday, 9 March 2017 So if you have undertaken or wil
It is a busy month with two major health and wellbeing campaigns. Take the Stoptober challenge Stoptober is back for 2016 to encourage smokers across England to make a bid to give up during October. Stoptober has encouraged almost one million to try and quit smoking to date, with thousands more likely to take part this autumn, and this year there are plenty of ways for people and partners to get i
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is supporting a national campaign, ‘Shoctober’, throughout October to hunt down life-saving defibrillators. SECAmb is asking people to #FindTheDefib and tweet their selfies next to them to @SECAmbulance and @SECAmbulanceCFR to locate life-saving machines that have been bought with good intentions but aren’t registered with the Trust.
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) picked up three awards at the prestigious Brake Fleet Safety Awards held in Birmingham on 29 September.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published its report following a planned inspection of South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) in May. The report gives the Trust a ‘good’ rating for its service being caring but highlights a number of areas of concern. The report judges the Trust to be ‘inadequate’ overall and NHS Improvement has placed the Trust into special measures
Patients from across South East Coast Ambulance Service’s (SECAmb) region have once again been reunited with the ambulance teams who saved their lives at the Trust’s annual ‘Our Survivors’ event. The event, now in its sixth year, celebrates the clinical skills of SECAmb staff and the lives they have saved. Eight patients, whose lives were saved by the clinical interventions of SECAmb staff, were
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has announced plans for staff based at Knaphill Ambulance Station to move in to its established Make Ready Centre in Chertsey. The plans will see the staff begin and end their shifts at the Chertsey centre where ambulances for the region are prepared and maintained. Knaphill station is not in the right location for current patient de
A potentially life-saving scheme in which West Sussex firefighters attend certain medical emergencies with South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) is to be piloted in the region. The co-responding scheme follows similar work with the fire services in Surrey and Kent with discussions also under way in East Sussex. West Sussex Fire & Rescue Service, (WSFRS), has worked in partnership with SE
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is urging schools and children’s groups to register their interest to take part in an international CPR awareness drive taking place in October. The Trust is looking for local schools and groups to take part in the Europe-wide initiative, Restart a Heart. As part of Restart a Heart Day on Tuesday 18 October, SECAmb is working with it