Sussex Police is working with ambulance and fire colleagues to trace those who worked at the scene of the Brighton bombing in 1984 It is possible that they may have been potentially exposed to asbestos within debris of The Grand hotel. Assistant Chief Constable Steve Barry, who is leading an emergency services group co-ordinating the effort, said: “We are trying to identify and inform emergency se
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is asking the public for its continued support as demand across the region remains high. Across its Kent, Surrey and Sussex region the Trust has responded to close to 350,000 999 calls since January this year (to 19 June) – up more than 30,000 on the same period in 2015. The Trust is working hard to meet this additional demand but ac
Clinical Pathways are doing a survey to find out how clinicians are using GPOOH services during July. We are hoping that this will give us some soIid data on how long crews are waiting on scene for call-backs, and the types of complaints they are asking for GPOOH help with. This will help us improve our services. We are asking that all clinical staff answer a few simple questions when they go to
Canadian paramedic firefighter and artist Daniel Sundahl will be visiting the Trust on Saturday, 18 June to meet staff and gain inspiration for images of UK emergency services. Dan has been a full-time paramedic in Canada for 13 years where he has developed a passion for emergency services artwork to help raise awareness of mental health and PTSD amongst the public safety community. He will be s
Two South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) patient transport ambulances have been destroyed in a fire outside East Surrey Hospital at Redhill this afternoon. No patients or staff were on board the vehicles at the time. It is too early to comment on the potential cause of the fire, which is believed to have started in an adjacent vehicle; a full investigation will take place in due course. SEC
SECAmb ambulances and HART are on scene at a fire involving three ambulances outside East Surrey Hospital at Redhill this afternoon. No staff or patients were on board. The Crawley Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) have been mobilised to cover the incident which is believed have affected part of the building as well. Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust report the fire service were on scene qu
As part of our migration to Office 365, we are now moving email accounts into the Cloud, which means Microsoft will manage the security and availability of the email system and the processing of your email. SECAmb IT staff will continue to support the email system and liaise with Microsoft where necessary. Your mailbox is scheduled for migration overnight on Wednesday 14th June 2017. For desktop,
Following the roll out of the new appraisal process last June, we have received some very valuable feedback, and have been able to make some improvements on both the form and the process for this year (2016/17)
I would like to thank you for your continued support with the delivery of first class patient care. The initial feedback from the Care Quality Commission was that YOU are providing quality care to our patients. Thank you. My goal, and one that I know is shared by Andy Newton and Kath Start, is for the Trust to build on this and move forward to truly patient-centred care, that improves not only c
The trial of a potentially life-saving scheme in which Surrey firefighters attend certain medical emergencies with South East Coast Ambulance Service will be expanded from next week (Monday 23 May). Following early success of the trial, which began at the end of September last year, trained firefighters will now not only attend cardiac arrest calls but also other serious calls such as someone fitt