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
A Wellbeing Forum for colleagues will be introduced by South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) as it implements its new five-year Wellbeing Strategy. The strategy for 2025-30, which was signed off recently by the Trust board, will have at its heart the ambition to embed wellbeing in every it does. Two further core themes are covered in the strategy – learning from lived experience; and d
We welcome the launch today of the Government’s National Oversight Framework (NOF) tables, which sees all NHS Trusts placed into one of four equal segments/performance categories. The continuing hard work and excellent care delivered by our teams is evidenced by our placement in the second highest segment – segment two – which points to good performance across most domains covered by the ne
South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) clinicians are among the first ambulance crews in the country to have access to key parts of a patient’s GP record while at their side via the national service, GP Connect. The GP Connect service allows authorised clinicians to view key parts of a patient’s GP record. Ambulance crews working out of SECAmb’s Paddock Wood base in Kent, are able to access t
An ambitious programme of work has been developed by South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) to ensure more of its seriously-ill and injured patients receive a quick response while it also adapts to the needs of patients not facing time-critical health issues. The work, which has seen SECAmb develop 11 ‘Models of Care’, follows the launch of the Trust’s five-year clinically-led strategy, which
Ahead of a weekend of celebrations at Brighton and Hove Pride, South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) has unveiled a newly-decorated Pride vehicle. With more than 90 colleagues set to represent SECAmb at this year’s event, the Trust is beginning its celebrations with the unveiling of its new Pride vehicle at Brighton Make Ready Centre on Friday, 1 August. This year’s Pride ambulance, d