Our values are the standards which everyone working at our Trust is expected to live up to.
They help us to make the right decisions and guide how we treat our colleagues, our patients and their family and friends.
With more than a thousand urgent calls to our 111 service over the Easter Holidays made for repeat prescriptions, South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) is urging the public to plan ahead. Over the four-day weekend from 3 to 6 April, SECAmb can expect to handle more than 13,000 calls to its 999 service and 18,000 calls to NHS 111 – a service it provides across Sussex, Kent and Medway. Last ye
Next week will see celebrations to mark the start of Passover, or Pesach, a major event in the Jewish calendar. A spring festival lasting seven or eight days, it features a ceremonial meal called a Seder, where the biblical story of the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in Egypt is retold. Paramedic Amba Cooper, who has worked in SECAmb for 11 years having started as an ECSW, shares the ce
“Seeing your child seriously unwell is any parents’ worst nightmare,” said Littlehampton mum, Georgy Jones. For parents Georgy and Leigh, that nightmare became reality on Tuesday, 6 January 2026 when their nearly two-year-old daughter, Maisie, had a sudden seizure that wouldn’t stop. “In that situation, you feel completely helpless,” Georgy recalled. “For any parent, seeing your child critically
At South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb), we are proud to be this year’s host of the National Ambulance LGBT+ Network Conference. On Friday, 31 July 2026, this year’s conference is especially meaningful as it returns to Brighton – the city where the National Ambulance LGBT+ network began. With the theme “LGBT+ Past, Present and Future”, the event celebrates the journey of LGBT+ colleag
A new strategy to strengthen volunteering and build more resilient communities has been launched by South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb). Volunteers play a vital role in helping save lives across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. SECAmb’s new Volunteering and Community Resilience Strategy sets out plans to grow and develop a more sustainable volunteering service that supports c
South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) outperformed the sector average across all nine People Promise themes and achieved a joint-highest response rate of 71 per cent, reflecting strong staff engagement and one of the Trust’s most positive survey results to date. Results published today, Thursday 12 March, show that 71 per cent – a record 3,625 of SECAmb colleagues – took part in the s
Innovation and transformation within South East Coast Ambulance Service’s (SECAmb’s) Infection Prevention Control (IPC) team have been recognised on the national stage as Deputy Head of IPC and the team scooped up a national ambulance award. Gavin Thompson and the IPC team was announced the winners of the Outstanding Champion of Innovation or Change Award at the Ambulance Leadership
We are part-way through Ramadan, one of the holiest months of the year for Muslims, a time of self-reflection, self-evaluation, increasing worship and charitable deeds. The month involves a daily fast from dawn to sunset, abstaining from food and drink, including water. For SECAmb colleagues observing Ramadan, while it is a beautiful time of the year, it requires some adjustments at work. Paramedi
Our values are the standards which everyone working at our Trust is expected to live up to.
They help us to make the right decisions and guide how we treat our colleagues, our patients and their family and friends.