South East Coast Ambulance Service’s (SECAmb) Eastbourne Area Community First Responder Team has been honoured with the prestigious King’s Award for Voluntary Service – the highest accolade a voluntary group can receive in the UK. With the team having responded to more than 1,000 incidents since the start of the year, the award recognises their commitment to serving the local community thro
South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) is proud that Sussex Paramedic, Steph Meech, has been elected to the position of Deputy Chair of the National Ambulance LGBT+ Network. Steph, a Paramedic Practitioner and Operational Team Leader, who works out of Polegate, took up the position this month following a decade of active involvement in the network, which was launched at Brighton and Hove Pri
Members of the public are invited to enter the festive spirit and join an evening of songs and celebration at special service to celebrate the lives that have been saved and touched by the ambulance service. South East Coast Ambulance’s (SECAmb) is hosting its first-ever Celebration of Life service on Monday 8 December from 6.30pm at St Nicholas Church, Sevenoaks. The service will see patients, am
With the clocks having turned back and with daylight quickly fading, South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) is asking for the public’s support this winter. People are reminded of the importance of making use of alternatives to calling 999 when not facing and emergency and to plan ahead for the colder months. While pressure on the ambulance service remains high all year round, the winter month
South East Coast Ambulance Service’s (SECAmb) Infection Prevention Control (IPC) team at has picked up a prestigious Infection Prevention Society (IPS) Award for Excellence. The team was recognised for its work in developing the Trust’s IPC App, which has transformed the way clinicians can access and apply infection prevention guidance before, during and after patient care. The app, which provides
Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) colleagues, responsible for managing the close to one million 999 calls received by South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) across its region, were among those presented with prestigious King’s Medals for Long Service and Good Conduct at the second of the Trust’s annual awards ceremonies. While previously receiving medals for 20 years NHS service, this year is
This evening – Monday, 13 October 2025 – Channel 4 is broadcasting a Dispatches documentary about the pressures on UK ambulance services. The hour-long documentary – called ‘999 Undercover: NHS in Crisis’ – includes covert filming carried out in our Medway Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) by an undercover journalist between May and July of this year. The journalist joined SECAmb as an Emerg
Photo credit: Everdrone We’re proud to be part of a project which will test how drones could be integrated into the UK’s 999 emergency response system to rapidly deliver defibrillators to patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). The project has been launched by the University of Surrey, Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex and SECAmb and has been funded by the National Inst
South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) Chief Executive, Simon Weldon, is taking on the challenge of running the Brighton Marathon in support of the Trust’s newly-relaunched charity. Simon will take to the city’s streets on April 12, 2026, to raise funds for the charity which aims to support SECAmb staff, volunteers, patients and communities with projects and resources beyond what is able to b
For our youngest-ever governor, it is the link he and his colleagues provide between our service and the public which makes our governor role essential. 18-year-old Zak Foley, from Brighton, embarked on his journey with SECAmb in 2023 when he was elected as a public governor for Brighton and East Sussex at the age of just 16. Now, in addition to beginning a paramedic science degree at the Universi