A 14-year-old girl from Sittingbourne, Kent, has been praised for her bravery after calling 999 when her younger brother collapsed in June 2025. Ruby-Louise was at home with her brother Tyler when he rapidly started to become unwell. She quickly alerted her parents and helped Tyler to sit down, aiding his head as he collapsed. Remaining calm under pressure, Ruby-Louise dialled 999 and spoke to Em
A mother of two from St Mary’s Bay in Kent has her 10-year-old daughter to thank for saving her life after she suffered a major heart attack while behind the wheel of her car earlier this year. Rachel, a local florist, was driving her daughter Alice, 10, and her younger sister, Emily to her work over the Easter holiday in April when she began to experience nausea, jaw pain and severe chest pain.
A Kent-based NHS 111 Health Advisor who was violently assaulted nearby his home has been reunited with the ambulance team who came to his aid. Martin Lopez, from Ashford, was walking home in the early hours of 8 May after watching a football match in London, when he was attacked from behind. The assault left him in and out of consciousness, bleeding heavily, and with multiple injuries, including a
A 10-year-old boy from Staplehurst, Kent, has been reunited with the ambulance crew who transported him to King’s College Hospital following a shock cancer diagnosis on Christmas Day 2023. Jamie Hough, who was just eight at the time, had been suffering from painful migraines for four months. After multiple visits to hospital, it was on Christmas Day that doctors at Maidstone Hospital identified ab
A young woman who survived a devastating brain haemorrhage, stroke and spinal cord infarction caused by a ruptured aneurysm has been reunited with the ambulance crew who helped save her life. Sophie Dougherty, now 34, from Broadstairs in Kent, met two members of the team who responded when she collapsed in 2019, an emotional milestone after years of recovery that have seen her defy the odds. Sophi
A granddad of six from Kent who suffered a heart attack while at home has been reunited with the SECAmb crews who he says, ‘saved his life’. Dave Hughes, aged 53 from Sheerness, Kent, who is an ex-kickboxer, was at home with his wife Angie in the early hours of 3 May 2025 when he started to struggle with what he assumed was indigestion. Dave was experiencing stabbing chest pains and sickness, as
A newborn baby boy who went to cardiac arrest while being delivered was introduced to the team who saved his life recently. Kent parents, Charlotte and Matt, very proudly showed off their four-month-old son, George, as they thanked their son’s lifesavers at an emotional reunion at Dartford Ambulance Station. The family got to meet some of the team who helped when George slipped into cardiac arrest
In a move that puts inclusion at the heart of care, the Trust is launching its Patient and Public Engagement Strategy for 2025–2029, and, for the first time, an easy read version is being published alongside it. This is the beginning of a new five-year journey to meaningfully collaborate with our patients and the public in the communities we serve. The strategy has been designed to improve patient
The daughter of a Medway man who suffered a sudden cardiac arrest at home arranged an emotional surprise reunion between her family and the team who saved his life. David Hanlon, (54) from Rochester, Kent, was overwhelmed to come face to face with the team who bought him back from the brink of death after he went into cardiac arrest on 2 December 2024. David’s wife Karen awoke to what sounded like
A father from Swanley who’s heart is now only working at 15 per cent capacity following a heart attack has thanked the teamwork of the ambulance service as to why he is alive. 54-year-old Steve Lane was reunited with emergency medical advisor, Cameron H-Smith and crewmates Lucy Rust and Sarah Blackwell after he experienced a severe heart attack in March 2025. Steve had been to the local shop nearb