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Image: SECAmb NHS Staff Survey shows significant improvements
7 March 2024

SECAmb NHS Staff Survey shows significant improvements

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, (SECAmb), is pleased to see significant improvements in its results in the yearly national NHS Staff Survey. The 2023 survey, published by NHS England today, (7 March), saw SECAmb record improvements across all nine themes explored by the survey’s questions and improved scores to almost all individual questions. The Trust’s scores have also

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Image: Study into use of video streaming technology during 999 calls published
27 February 2024

Study into use of video streaming technology during 999 calls published

Innovative technology enabling ambulance service dispatchers to view footage from the scene of trauma incidents via video live streaming from mobile phones is feasible to implement and evaluate, a new study led by the University of Surrey and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, reveals. Such technology, used via 999 callers’ smartphones, could aid emergency medical servi

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Image: New cards to help deliver instant patient feedback
26 February 2024

New cards to help deliver instant patient feedback

Patients will soon be able to instantly provide feedback on the care given to them with the introduction of new feedback cards on every South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) ambulance. The small business cards, which are expected to be on board ambulances in the coming weeks, feature a QR code allowing patients to scan it with a smart device, if they have one. The QR code will then take them

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Image: Control room manager retires after 36 years’ service
26 February 2024

Control room manager retires after 36 years’ service

A long-serving control room manager has retired from South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) after a career spanning five decades. Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) Manager, Wendy Gill, has been a part of the ambulance service for 36 years having joined Kent Ambulance Service as a part-time call taker in 1988. Wendy was given a fantastic send off by colleagues past and pre

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Image: SECAmb paramedics win regional research award
21 February 2024

SECAmb paramedics win regional research award

South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) paramedics delivering the PARAMEDIC-3 Trial have won the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network Kent, Surrey and Sussex Research Support Award 2023. The awards exist to thank colleagues who do not have a formal role in research activity but have provided essential support to conduct research. This year more than

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Image: Volunteer film highlights importance of bystander CPR
20 February 2024

Volunteer film highlights importance of bystander CPR

A short film highlighting the importance of bystander CPR and the use of public access defibrillators has been produced by Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells Community First Responder, (CFR), team. The volunteer team is one of close to 60 teams which is trained by and works with South East Coast Ambulance Service, with responders attending certain emergencies and providing vital, often life-saving care

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Image: Trust’s response to national report into the culture of the ambulance service
15 February 2024

Trust’s response to national report into the culture of the ambulance service

We welcome the publication of this report as we continue to focus and improve our culture across a number of important areas. We are committed to ensuring that the work we have already started, including ensuring colleagues feel confident and safe in speaking up and in challenging inappropriate behaviours, is built upon. We recognise that there remains more to do to ensure SECAmb becomes the orga

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Image: Clinical hubs benefitting patients and reducing demand on A&E
13 February 2024

Clinical hubs benefitting patients and reducing demand on A&E

Two clinical co-ordination hubs set up as trials by South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, (SECAmb), in partnership with NHS Trusts in Kent, have been extended having delivered positive early results. The hubs, established in Autumn last year, in the Trust’s Paddock Wood and Ashford operational areas, involve multi-discipline teams from across the Kent healthcare system joining S

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Image: Chief Finance Office to take up new role in Blackpool
12 February 2024

Chief Finance Office to take up new role in Blackpool

It’s been announced today (12 February 2024) that Saba Sadiq, Chief Finance Officer, will be leaving SECAmb shortly to take up a new Executive Director position at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Chair David Astley said: “I would like to thank Saba for her hard work and diligence during her time with us; this is a great opportunity for her, and we wish her well in her future ca

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Image: Patient safety is the topic of our next patient community forum meeting
8 February 2024

Patient safety is the topic of our next patient community forum meeting

The Trust’s Head of Patient Safety will be speaking at our next community forum which takes place next week. Members of the public have an opportunity to find out more about the work we’re doing to improve the care and treatment we deliver to our patients at this virtual event which takes place from 10 to 11.30am on Wednesday, 15 February. Our Head of Patient Safety, Tam Moorcroft, will be talkin

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