4 October 2016
Big wins for SECAmb at the Brake Fleet Safety Awards 2016
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) picked up three awards at the prestigious Brake Fleet Safety Awards held in Birmingham on 29 September.
Archives (2016)
Image: Trust supporting ‘Shoctober’ and #findthedefib campaign
4 October 2016
Trust supporting ‘Shoctober’ and #findthedefib campaign
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is supporting a national campaign, ‘Shoctober’, throughout October to hunt down life-saving defibrillators. SECAmb is asking people to #FindTheDefib and tweet their selfies next to them to @SECAmbulance and @SECAmbulanceCFR to locate life-saving machines that have been bought with good intentions but aren’t registered with the Trust.
Image: Trust committed to improvements following publication of CQC report
29 September 2016
Trust committed to improvements following publication of CQC report
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published its report following a planned inspection of South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) in May. The report gives the Trust a ‘good’ rating for its service being caring but highlights a number of areas of concern. The report judges the Trust to be ‘inadequate’ overall and NHS Improvement has placed the Trust into special measures
Image: Trust committed to improvements following publication of CQC report
29 September 2016
Trust committed to improvements following publication of CQC report
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published its report following a planned inspection of South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) in May. The report gives the Trust a ‘good’ rating for its service being caring but highlights a number of areas of concern. The report judges the Trust to be ‘inadequate’ overall and NHS Improvement has placed the Trust into special measures
Image: Patients and staff reunited at SECAmb’s sixth annual survivors’ event
27 September 2016
Patients and staff reunited at SECAmb’s sixth annual survivors’ event
Patients from across South East Coast Ambulance Service’s (SECAmb) region have once again been reunited with the ambulance teams who saved their lives at the Trust’s annual ‘Our Survivors’ event. The event, now in its sixth year, celebrates the clinical skills of SECAmb staff and the lives they have saved. Eight patients, whose lives were saved by the clinical interventions of SECAmb staff, were
Image: Patients and staff reunited at SECAmb’s sixth annual survivors’ event
27 September 2016
Patients and staff reunited at SECAmb’s sixth annual survivors’ event
Patients from across South East Coast Ambulance Service’s (SECAmb) region have once again been reunited with the ambulance teams who saved their lives at the Trust’s annual ‘Our Survivors’ event. The event, now in its sixth year, celebrates the clinical skills of SECAmb staff and the lives they have saved. Eight patients, whose lives were saved by the clinical interventions of SECAmb staff, were
Image: Chertsey Make Ready Centre to incorporate more ambulance crews
20 September 2016
Chertsey Make Ready Centre to incorporate more ambulance crews
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has announced plans for staff based at Knaphill Ambulance Station to move in to its established Make Ready Centre in Chertsey. The plans will see the staff begin and end their shifts at the Chertsey centre where ambulances for the region are prepared and maintained. Knaphill station is not in the right location for current patient de
Image: Chertsey Make Ready Centre to incorporate more ambulance crews
20 September 2016
Chertsey Make Ready Centre to incorporate more ambulance crews
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has announced plans for staff based at Knaphill Ambulance Station to move in to its established Make Ready Centre in Chertsey. The plans will see the staff begin and end their shifts at the Chertsey centre where ambulances for the region are prepared and maintained. Knaphill station is not in the right location for current patient de
Image: Counting the cost of fraud
14 September 2016
Counting the cost of fraud
The Trust has a new team in place from RSM Risk Assurance Services to monitor fraud. They will be producing regular bulletins called Notice Fraud to inform staff about actions, successes and alerts. View Issue 1 of Notice Fraud Fraud costs the NHS millions and directly impacts on patient care. If you have suspicions that fraud may be occurring or wish to receive further information about the above
Image: Counting the cost of fraud
14 September 2016
Counting the cost of fraud
The Trust has a new team in place from RSM Risk Assurance Services to monitor fraud. They will be producing regular bulletins called Notice Fraud to inform staff about actions, successes and alerts. View Issue 1 of Notice Fraud Fraud costs the NHS millions and directly impacts on patient care. If you have suspicions that fraud may be occurring or wish to receive further information about the above