A mother of two from St Mary’s Bay in Kent has her 10-year-old daughter to thank for saving her life after she suffered a major heart attack while behind the wheel of her car earlier this year. Rachel, a local florist, was driving her daughter Alice, 10, and her younger sister, Emily to her work over the Easter holiday in April when she began to experience nausea, jaw pain and severe chest pain.
The Head of Research at the South East Coast Ambulance Trust (SECAmb) has been lauded as “a trailblazer of paramedic-led research” and honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the College of Paramedics. Prof Julia Williams received the prestigious award, the highest honour the College can bestow, at a special ceremony at Keele University on Friday, 25 July. “A trailblazer in
Ahead of a weekend of celebrations at Brighton and Hove Pride, South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) has unveiled a newly-decorated Pride vehicle. With more than 90 colleagues set to represent SECAmb at this year’s event, the Trust is beginning its celebrations with the unveiling of its new Pride vehicle at Brighton Make Ready Centre on Friday, 1 August. This year’s Pride ambulance, d
Colleagues at the Driver Training Department have picked up a prestigious award recognising the “exceptional support” they provide SECAmb students. The award, made at the recent FutureQuals Conference attended by teams from across the country, highlights the “exceptional support of apprentices whilst undertaking the Level 3 Certificate in Emergency Response Ambulance Driving̶
Discover life-saving skills, explore emergency vehicles and find out more about the dedicated teams at South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb), at its Annual Members’ Meeting (AMM). The event, which will take place at K2, Crawley on 12 September 2025, will include life-saving CPR demonstrations, opportunities to find out about volunteering and charity work at SECAmb,
A Kent-based NHS 111 Health Advisor who was violently assaulted nearby his home has been reunited with the ambulance team who came to his aid. Martin Lopez, from Ashford, was walking home in the early hours of 8 May after watching a football match in London, when he was attacked from behind. The assault left him in and out of consciousness, bleeding heavily, and with multiple injuries, including a
A Crawley man who is celebrating a ‘second chance at life’ has thanked his lifesavers for that he has been able to meet his first grandchild and see two of his children get engaged. Andrew Bradnam and his family met some of his lifesavers recently at South East Coast Ambulance Service’s (SECAmb’s) Gatwick Make Ready Centre at a heartfelt reunion. With only around one in 10 people surviving out-of
A 10-year-old boy from Staplehurst, Kent, has been reunited with the ambulance crew who transported him to King’s College Hospital following a shock cancer diagnosis on Christmas Day 2023. Jamie Hough, who was just eight at the time, had been suffering from painful migraines for four months. After multiple visits to hospital, it was on Christmas Day that doctors at Maidstone Hospital identified ab
A young woman who survived a devastating brain haemorrhage, stroke and spinal cord infarction caused by a ruptured aneurysm has been reunited with the ambulance crew who helped save her life. Sophie Dougherty, now 34, from Broadstairs in Kent, met two members of the team who responded when she collapsed in 2019, an emotional milestone after years of recovery that have seen her defy the odds. Sophi
A man from Hailsham, who was given nine life-saving shocks after suffering a cardiac arrest, thanks the South East Coast Ambulance (SECAmb) clinicians that saved his life. Now 50-years-old, Simon Ford and his partner Liz recently visited SECAmb’s Polegate Make Ready Centre, where he was reunited with some of the clinicians that saved his life earlier this year. On 25 January 2025, Simon was at hi