A Horsham businessman who suffered a heart attack has been reunited with the SECAmb “angels” who saved his life. Jon Hadaway was in the queue at Strawberry Fields Tea Room in Faygate on June 26, the hottest day of the year, when he collapsed and fell backwards after going into cardiac arrest. Fortunately, off-duty Clinical Supervisor and Paramedic Steff Barlow and Associate Ambulance Practitioner
Colleagues in our Medway emergency operations centre (EOC) and Paddock Wood make ready centre (MRC) received a visit from colleagues at the Brabant Regional Ambulance Service in the Netherlands. Hosted on Wednesday, 25 September, the visit originated after the Dutch team learned of the West Kent clinical coordination hub’s success in preventing more than 1,200 emergency department admissions in it
With cardiac arrest survival rates below one in 10, Justin Riordan, a father of three from Rainham, Kent, was determined to express his gratitude to SECAmb colleagues for helping to save his life. In the early hours of 7 June 2024, Justin’s wife, Lisa, woke to what she thought was Justin snoring extremely loudly. When she tried to wake him, he was unconscious and showing signs of agonal breathing,
A Kent health project, which is helping to keep patients safe, well and out of hospital has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award. The East Kent integrated clinical hub, involving South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust’s (SECAmb), East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust and Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, has been shortlisted for a 2024 Health S
At South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb), engaging with our patients and hearing your views is a top priority. We are committed to involving the public in shaping our patient and public engagement strategy, and we invite you to participate in our public survey to help guide this important work. Through public involvement, we’ve already achieved significant milestones, including hosting six c
A mother of two young children from Ramsgate in Kent who suffered a decline in her mental health recently had the opportunity to thank her lifesavers as she continues her recovery. Coral Kirklaldie, 41, was overjoyed to be reunited with the South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) team. With one in four people experiencing a mental health problem of some kind each year in England, Coral, found
SECAmb colleagues were over the moon to meet a father of three who suffered a heart attack while taking part in a charity football match. Craig Minnican aged 33 from Cliffe in Kent, met with his lifesavers, Emergency Medical Advisor, Chelsea Williams, Resource Dispatcher, Simon Field, Trainee Associate Ambulance Practitioner, Olivia Godman and Newly Qualified Paramedic, Harry Topsfield at Thamesid
A clinical coordination hub in west Kent has recently marked its one-year anniversary, helping avoid more than 1,200 emergency department admissions. The hub, which was organised and implemented by South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, (SECAmb), in partnership with Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW), and Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT), has now beco
A Kent science teacher, who is lucky to be alive after suffering a tear of his major aorta artery where it exits the heart, is reunited with his lifesavers. With just a 15 to 30 per cent chance of surviving the Type A aortic dissection, South East Coast Ambulance Service colleagues were delighted to be reunited with the father of three from Parkwood in Gillingham, Kent, at Medway Make Ready Centre
A mother of three young children from Sittingbourne, Kent was recently able to reunite with the ambulance service colleagues who helped to save her life last year. Gemma Ledger, now aged 39, suffered a cardiac arrest at her home in the early hours of the morning on 23 January 2023, while her three children now aged two, five and 13 were asleep next door. Gemma’s partner of 18 years, Richard, woke