South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) is asking people to carry out some final checks to ensure they keep themselves and others as safe as possible this Christmas. With SECAmb, as ever, expecting a busy festive period, ambulance staff and volunteers in the Trust’s 999 and NHS 111 Operations Centres and out on the road, will be working hard throughout to ensure patients receive the help they
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is urging people to take precautions to minimise the risk themselves and others suffering a trip or a fall this winter. By undertaking some simple checks, everyone, and especially vulnerable older people, can ensure they are safer and less likely to require the assistance of the ambulance service. Ambulance crews attend thousands of
South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) company secretary, Peter Lee, enjoyed national success recently winning Company Secretary of the Year at the prestigious Chartered Governance Institute awards. Peter was the only NHS member of staff shortlisted in the category at the awards, held in London last week, (27 November). He saw off strong competition from a number of large private sector organ
South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) is inviting the public to join in a fun countdown to Christmas as it launches its ‘Then and Now’ Advent calendar this weekend (Sunday 1 December). The Trust will ‘open a window’ from its Twitter and Facebook accounts each day of Advent to reveal ‘then and now’ photos of SECAmb staff and volunteers. People can follow the Trust’s @SECAmbulance Twitter acco
With the colder winter months upon us and the busy festive period fast approaching, South East Coast Ambulance Service, (SECAmb) is urging people to remember that only a small percentage of 999 calls it receives will result in an immediate response being arranged. More than a third of 999 calls, (34 percent), made to South East Coast Ambulance Service, (SECAmb), in the last year were triaged as lo
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is urging people to remember to make use of the alternatives to calling 999 when they are not facing a serious or life-threatening emergency. As the Trust continues to plan ahead for Christmas, New Year and the colder months, the public can play their part reducing demand on the 999 service and the wider health system by considering
Following the chemical incident in Langley near Maidstone, yesterday afternoon (Wednesday, 6 November), SECAmb is continuing to support those involved, although it has now stood down the Major Incident declared in response to this. The Trust sent a number of emergency resources to the scene, including its Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) and the air ambulance, to assess and treat 48 patients. C
Members of the public are being invited to nominate their ambulance service or NHS 111 hero in a new award to be presented at SECAmb’s annual staff awards. The People’s Hero Award gives the public across the region the chance to pay tribute to the good work of someone who has left a lasting impression on themselves or their family in the last year. Nominations will be accepted for anyone who works
South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) is showing its support for the British Legion’s Poppy Appeal by featuring a special design on its ambulances. All SECAmb ambulances have had poppy stickers affixed to them with 12 ambulances – spread across the Trust’s Kent, Sussex and Surrey region – being decorated with a larger poppy design. The cost of the special livery has been kindly covered
Please attribute to a South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) spokesperson: “We are responding to an incident in Sutton Road, Langley near Maidstone, following a suspected chemical leak at a premises reported to us at approximately 2.20pm today. Ambulance crews, including our Hazardous Area Response Team and the air ambulance service, are at the scene. We have assessed and treated 57 people a