South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has appointed a new interim Medical Director. Dr Andy Carson replaces the previous Medical Director Dr Rory McCrea who stepped down from the Trust for personal reasons last week. Dr Carson will provide medical oversight at the Trust two day a week – the same number of days as Dr McCrea. Dr Carson’s substantive position remains with W
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has appointed a new Chief Executive. Following a robust recruitment and selection process, today (Wednesday 4 January) the Trust’s Chairman Sir Peter Dixon announced that Daren Mochrie will be joining SECAmb. With nearly 30 years’ experience of working in the NHS in Scotland and currently the Director of Service Delivery for the Scot
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
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
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
Please attribute to a South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) spokesperson: “South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is disappointed that its bid to continue to provide the Patient Transport Service across Surrey beyond April 2017 was unsuccessful. “The Trust ensured its bid would allow it to build on its current service delivery and provide a high
South East Coast Ambulance Service’s (SECAmb’s) innovative electronic Patient Clinical Record (ePCR) project will expand further having been given Board approval to be used by all clinicians across the Trust’s Thanet Operational Unit area. The project, in which clinicians are personally issued with iPads, enables ambulance crews to complete patient records electronically, streamlining communicatio
Ambulance crews will begin operating out of South East Coast Ambulance Service’s (SECAmb’s) newest Make Ready Centre in Tangmere, near Chichester, West Sussex, next week. A phased opening will see the first crews begin to report to the new centre on the Chichester Business Park on Tuesday 9 August. From Tuesday, staff from Midhurst and Pulborough will begin their shifts from the new centre with cr
“South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) recently agreed to formal collaborative working with its neighbouring ambulance service, South Central Ambulance Service, (SCAS). “In a move to support improvements and deliver better outcomes for patients, more expertise and best practice will be shared between the two foundation trusts. “The closer working follows similar approaches elsewhere in t