Your latest issue of the Clinical Newsletter and Shared Learning is available now and full of valuable information. In this edition is an update of all the latest JRCALC recommendations and news of a new app that will provide up to date JRCALC advice on your phone or iPAD. The app will not only host the most up-to-date JRCALC guidelines, it also has the ability to hold locally developed Trust guid
As part of our continuing efforts to raise awareness of the importance of medicines management within the Trust, we would like to share this short film with all staff today. It features Fionna, who is our Exec lead for medicines management and the Trust’s Accountable Officer for drugs, talking about why we all need to take medicines management seriously and about the possible serious consequences
Network Maintenance – Monday 08/05/2017 @ 1930hrs (for up to four hours) There will essential system maintenance work carried out tonight, Monday, 8 May, from 19:30, which is scheduled for up to four hours. During this time, there will be disruption to application access from all admin computers. The EOC computers and telephones will not be affected by this network maintenance. The primary
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published its report following a planned inspection of South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) in May 2017. While the report recognises that progress since the previous inspection in May 2016 has been made in some areas, it concludes this has not been as rapid or as widespread as it might have been, meaning the Trust continues to
SECAmb is hosting the very first Listen, Learn, Change Conference at the AMEX Stadium, Brighton on 4th October 2017. If you are interested in what meaningful and reflective learning means and want to learn more about openness, transparency and candour, then this is the event for you, it’s a free one day conference open to all staff. There will be a number of talks on the day and workshops with to
It is a mandatory requirement for all staff to have, and attend regardless of their role in the Trust a fire awareness induction when starting to work in a new or unfamiliar work place. With this in mind it is most important that all members of staff who work or visit the first floor offices at Nexus House, who have not so far attended the ten-minute training session and had their attendance recor
The Trust is undertaking a review of the current Unsocial Hours’ Policy, with the aim of implementing changes by Monday, 2 April 2018. As part of this process, the Unsocial Hours Working Group (membership has representation from union staff-side and management) is seeking to canvass people’s views on what options they would prefer to work, in line with NHS Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions re
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) gearing up to teach life-saving CPR skills to thousands of people next month as part of this year’s Restart-a-Heart awareness campaign. The Trust was involved in the Europe-wide initiative for their first time last year when staff, volunteers and fellow clinicians trained close to 8,500 children and some adults in CPR during a week i
A Kent man has been reunited with the ambulance crews and others who helped save his life at the gym where he suffered a cardiac arrest in June. Steve Beal, 47, from Kings Hill, who collapsed and went into cardiac arrest at David Lloyd Kings Hill, on 26 June, met with ambulance crews and club staff to thank all those involved in helping to save his life on Sunday 24 September. The quick thinking a
Dear Colleagues, Since I started with the Trust at the beginning of April, I have tried really hard to get out and about around the Trust as much as possible but am conscious that there are some places I haven’t yet visited. So, I have scheduled in a series of station visits over coming weeks, the first series as below, as an opportunity for me to have a chat with any staff who are around. I see t