Archives (2025)

Image: Kent parents reunite with ambulance team on baby’s one-month milestone
14 April 2025

Kent parents reunite with ambulance team on baby’s one-month milestone

Exactly one month after the safe arrival of baby Hallie at their Chatham home, new parents Kloe and Matt were reunited with the SECAmb colleagues who helped bring her into the world. The unplanned home birth happened at 39 weeks’ pregnant after Kloe had been sent home from hospital with instructions to rest. However, shortly after returning home, it was clear baby Hallie had other plans. At around

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Image: SECAmb exceeds response time target
10 April 2025

SECAmb exceeds response time target

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation (SECAmb) has welcomed latest figures which show it has consistently exceeded the response time target to respond to some of its most seriously ill and injured patients over the past year. SECAmb was one of only a small number of ambulance trusts to exceed the Category 2 call performance target across the whole last 12-months, (1 April 2024 – 31 Mar

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Image: Hastings cardiac arrest survivor thanks paramedics for giving her the chance to meet grandson
10 April 2025

Hastings cardiac arrest survivor thanks paramedics for giving her the chance to meet grandson

A Hastings woman has a second chance at life and an opportunity to enjoy her first grandson thanks to the life-saving efforts of SECAmb clinicians. 54-year-old Amanda Burns and her husband John, met her life-savers at an emotional reunion held at the Trust’s Hastings Make Ready Centre on Friday, 28 March. But with just 10 per cent of people surviving out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, Amanda knows

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Image: Help us manage demand this Easter – order repeat prescriptions in time
9 April 2025

Help us manage demand this Easter – order repeat prescriptions in time

South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) is urging people to use its services wisely to help with the demand faced by both its 999 and NHS 111 services across the four-day Easter Bank Holiday weekend. SECAmb is expecting to handle some 10,000 calls to its 999 service and more than 20,000 calls to NHS 111 – a service it provides across Sussex, Kent and Medway. Among those 20,000 calls to NHS 111

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Image: Premature baby reunites with ambulance team
8 April 2025

Premature baby reunites with ambulance team

SECAmb crews were reunited with the baby they resuscitated after he was born eight weeks prematurely at the family home. Kent parents, Philippa and Harry, were able to share their thanks and news that baby Albie not only survived his traumatic entrance into the world but he is now thriving three months on from the ordeal. On 30 December 2024, Philippa had been experiencing some pain and had made h

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Image: Brave seven-year-old recognised for 999 call
1 April 2025

Brave seven-year-old recognised for 999 call

Seven-year-old Franklin from Maidstone has been hailed a hero after his quick thinking got his mum the help she needed after collapsing at home. Alone with his younger siblings, five-year-old Rosie and two-year-old Teddy, Franklin was able to use his mum’s iPhone SOS feature to dial 999 on Sunday, 24 November 2024 after she became unresponsive at home. Emergency Medical Advisor (EMA) Sarah Dolphin

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Image: Woman recovers from broken neck and pelvis to thank ambulance team
1 April 2025

Woman recovers from broken neck and pelvis to thank ambulance team

An East Grinstead woman, who made a remarkable recovery after falling head first down her stairs, has thanked the ambulance team who came to her aid. Mary Cole and husband, Alan, visited South East Coast Ambulance Service’s (SECAmb’s) Gatwick Make Ready Centre where she was reunited with paramedics, Josie Bishop and Lilly Hook. Mary suffered multiple injuries including to her spine and head in the

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Image: ‘Shout for help’ sees GoodSAM responder save patient’s life
26 March 2025

‘Shout for help’ sees GoodSAM responder save patient’s life

A Crawley man who was first on scene of a cardiac arrest, after being alerted via the GoodSAM app by South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb), is urging others to sign up to the initiative. Cub and Scout leader, Callum Hawker, responded to the alert following reports of a cardiac arrest in the Crawley area in January. GoodSAM is an app used by SECAmb to alert trained responders to cardiac arres

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Image: Nurse reunites with outstanding ambulance crew
26 March 2025

Nurse reunites with outstanding ambulance crew

A Frailty Nurse Practitioner with 25 years’ experience in the NHS who survived a sudden cardiac arrest has been reunited with the ambulance crews who saved her life, describing their care as “outstanding” and their actions as the reason she is here today. Now 52-year-old Dee was at home in East Sussex when her husband Will found her unresponsive in June 2024. Dee’s husband immediately raised the a

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Image: Kent cardiac arrest survivor reunites with 999 heroes
25 March 2025

Kent cardiac arrest survivor reunites with 999 heroes

A young man from Dover whose heart stopped for six minutes after being rushed to hospital has been reunited with the SECAmb colleagues who played a part in saving his life. Aydan Adams, now 23, was invited to the Trust’s Ashford Make Ready Centre recently – more than a year after he was found unresponsive at his grandmother’s house and taken to hospital, where he later suffered a cardiac arr

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