For our youngest-ever governor, it is the link he and his colleagues provide between our service and the public which makes our governor role essential. 18-year-old Zak Foley, from Brighton, embarked on his journey with SECAmb in 2023 when he was elected as a public governor for Brighton and East Sussex at the age of just 16. Now, in addition to beginning a paramedic science degree at the Universi
New parents from Seaford, Amanda Feast and Phill Stevenson, recently reunited with the ambulance team that helped deliver their first baby boy at home. Now four-month-old, Phoenix, Amanda and Phill recently visited South East Coast Ambulance Service’s (SECAmb’s) Polegate Make Ready Centre where they reunited with the ambulance team that helped bring their first baby into the world – Critical Care
We’re coming to the end of this year’s #30Days30Ways campaign which SECAmb has been supporting, highlighting throughout September how to get more ’emergency ready’ and build community resilience. Today’s theme is about volunteering. As well as being a great way to meet and connect with others, learn new skills and make a real difference, volunteering provides a solid
The fast actions of a group of friends who began CPR immediately after a Sittingbourne man collapsed on the tennis court, have been credited with saving his life. Tim was playing doubles tennis at a friend’s house in Lynsted, Kent on 26 May this year, when he suddenly felt faint and collapsed to the floor. Witnessing his collapse, Tim’s friends immediately checked for a pulse, dialled 999 and beg
A large-scale emergency exercise saw SECAmb teams working alongside Surrey Police and Surrey Fire & Rescue. Royal Holloway University in Egham was the setting for Exercise Whitehall, simulating the after-effects of a rave on a student campus with 20 patients who had been involved in an altercation and others who had taken recreational substances. “This joint initiative brought together 4
Thanks to the life-saving actions of two bystanders and SECAmb clinicians, cardiac arrest survivor, Michael Wilde, got to celebrate his 81st birthday and 52 years of marriage. Michael and his wife, Ruth, recently visited our Tangmere Make Ready Centre, where they met with some of his lifesavers including Paramedics Steve Leggatt and Chelsey Lallem-Haylock, Trainee Associate Ambulance Practitioner
South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAMb) were delighted to welcome colleagues and members of the public to our Annual Members Meeting recently – an opportunity to reflect on achievements and discuss priorities for the year ahead. The event, which took place at K2 Crawley on Friday, 12 September, gave attendees the opportunity to engage with colleagues at a variety of stalls on the Trust’s curre
Exactly one month after suffering a heart attack, Kent man Steve and partner Tina, were reunited with the ambulance team who helped him. On the morning of 5 August, Steve was walking his wife Tina to work when he began experiencing what he first thought was asthma. The couple sat on a bench in The Great Lines park, Brompton, but as Steve’s condition deteriorated, Tina dialled 999. She was connect
To help keep our roads as safe as possible, South East Coast Ambulance Service’s (SECAmb) digital alert system lets drivers know when an ambulance is responding to an emergency nearby. Working in partnership with Acetech and Haas Alert, the digital alert system sends a notification to compatible devices such as smart phones or vehicle navigation systems alerting drivers to a nearby ambulance
A Wellbeing Forum for colleagues will be introduced by South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) as it implements its new five-year Wellbeing Strategy. The strategy for 2025-30, which was signed off recently by the Trust board, will have at its heart the ambition to embed wellbeing in every it does. Two further core themes are covered in the strategy – learning from lived experience; and d