Due to upgrade work that is taking place on Trust’s servers, the intranet (Staff Zone) will be offline for approximately one hour from 6pm on Thursday, 19 May. During this time, you will not be able to access certain Trust portals through the intranet and therefore should use the following links below: GRS Web – https://scheduling.secamb.nhs.uk/ Datix IWR1 – http://datixweb.secamb.nhs
Two South East Coast Ambulance Service paramedics had a day out to remember when they attended Buckingham Palace as guests at a Royal Garden Party. Clinical Operations Manager (COM) for Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath, Lewes and Hove, Roy Nightingale and recently-retired Steve Andrews, from Bognor Regis, were nominated to attend the event for their roles in attending the Shoreham Airshow disaster and
Tuesday, 17 May is International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia IDAHOT which is a day against violence and oppression, it is also a day to promote freedom, diversity and acceptance. At SECAmb we want to raise and increase awareness of IDAHOT and help stamp out all discrimination. Everyone has a part to play in stamping out discrimination. This is an invitation for you to pla
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has been shortlisted as finalists at this year’s Motor Trade Awards. SECAmb has been named a finalist in the Technical Excellence Award category for the steps it has taken in relation to its Driver Safety System and the design of its newly- delivered Ferno concept ‘connected ambulance’, which will be tested in the Chertsey area. The
> Kent’s emergency services have helped documentary makers from ITV recreate the 2013 Sheppey Crossing crash; one of the UK’s worst ever road crashes, for a brand new one-off documentary – CRASH: Anatomy of an accident, which will be broadcast on ITV this week. On the morning of 5 September 2013 over 100 cars, lorries, vans and motorbikes crashed in thick fog on the 100ft high bridge, th
Two South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) members of staff from Worthing are bidding to raise £10,000 for two local charities by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya next year. Paramedic Carley Gould and ambulance technician Tammy Page are looking for support from the community for a task that will test both their mental and physical capability over 10 days, in July 2017, climbing to Uhuru Po
In July 2015, the Trust’s Estates team presented a paper to the Trust Board who approved for an HQ and EOC to go ahead in Crawley. To achieve the Trust’s objectives of establishing a new Headquarters (HQ) and an EOC West, it has agreed to enter in to an arrangement with Surrey County Council for the occupation of 28,858 square feet over two floors. This will be a brand new building, which is curre
With the CQC inspections taking place from 3rd May – 6th May the management rota for CQC contacts is now available online along with a list of named inspectors for your reference. There is a wealth of information about the CQC inspection and what to expect on the dedicated CQC page along with an inspection toolkit and Frequently Asked Questions section which should cover everything you mi
Over the years neighbours have become accustomed to seeing an ambulance outside the Freeman home in Hempstead, near Gillingham, but in November last year the presence of a South East Ambulance Service (SECAmb) crew proved to be a life saver for Arthur Freeman. The SECAmb crew attended after Arthur’s son Andrew rushed from Lordswood to his dad’s aid before calling 999 reporting the 87-year-old’s si
Please attribute to a South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) spokesperson: “SECAmb is asking the public to, as always, think carefully about calling 999 during this week’s planned period of industrial action by junior doctors. It is difficult to say how substantial the impact will be on our service but we have robust plans in place and will be monitoring the situation clo