South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) is looking forward to welcoming Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) staff from Banstead as they join their colleagues at the Trust’s new EOC and HQ in Crawley. Staff currently based at Banstead will work their first shift at the Trust’s Manor Royal site from the morning of Tuesday 5 September. They will also join their colleagues in Crawley and the Trust’s
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has today (4 August) published a large-scale independent report to help it better understand and help tackle bullying and harassment issues at the Trust. The independent report, which was commissioned by SECAmb itself, and produced by Professor Duncan Lewis from Plymouth University, follows concerns raised in the Trust’s staff survey
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is set for the second phase of migration to a new Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), system. The new system is well established and currently in use in three other UK ambulance trusts, and has been operating at the Trust’s Coxheath EOC East in Kent since 5 July 2017. The CAD is the system used to record all data related to 999 and urgent requests
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has been awarded the ‘Gold Standard’ for the fourth year running at the Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (enei) awards. SECAmb was recognised with the ‘Gold Standard’ alongside Santander, Zurich Insurance, Nationwide Building Society and legal firm DWF at the awards which were held at the Law Society in London yesterday
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is pleased to have completed an order for 42 new ambulances to serve its region. The vehicles, which will replace ageing ambulances across Sussex, Surrey and Kent, are expected to hit the roads by the new calendar year. They are then expected to be rolled out at a rate of four vehicles each week. The vehicles follow the design of the
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is pleased to be welcoming the first staff at its new Emergency Operations Centre and HQ in Manor Royal, Crawley, West Sussex. Staff from Lewes Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) begin working from the new control room next week (24 May) with support staff from the Trust’s offices in Lewes, Coxheath and former HQ in Banstead, starting
Statement from South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) Interim Chairman, Sir Peter Dixon: “Acting Chief Executive Geraint Davies has decided, for personal reasons, to bring forward his announced leaving date from 31 March 2017 to today. “I would like to take this opportunity to thank Geraint on behalf of the Trust for not only his hard work and commitment during the last 1
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Independent Non-Executive Director. Dr Angela Smith, from Brighton, will initially serve a three-year term running until February 2020, and replaces Trevor Willington whose final term of office ended at the end of January. While her career was mostly focused on the International Finan
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is supporting NHS England in a public information campaign on when to call 999 and NHS 111. All of the Trust’s operational ambulances and cars will carry messages on how the two services work together. The posters, which have been designed and funded by NHS England, have this week started to be placed on vehicles. The Trust hopes the
Trust response to National Audit Office report on NHS Ambulance Services Please attribute to a South East Coast Ambulance Service spokesperson: “SECAmb broadly welcomes the focus this report brings on the challenges facing the ambulance service. We are pleased that it highlights a number of issues including rising demand not being matching by increases in funding, handover delays at A&Es and t