Saving Lives, Serving Our Communities
Saving Lives, Serving Our Communities – Trust launches new 5-year strategyRegister your attendance and find out more about your ambulance service
See our people in action at our Annual Members MeetingFind out more about how you can help us help you this summer
Stay Safe and Cool in the SunExperienced paramedic, Jaqualine Lindridge, will take up the board-level position in the autumn, following an extensive recruitment process.
SECAmb appoints new Chief Paramedic OfficerSaving Lives, Serving Our Communities
Register your attendance and find out more about your ambulance service
Find out more about how you can help us help you this summer
Experienced paramedic, Jaqualine Lindridge, will take up the board-level position in the autumn, following an extensive recruitment process.
A former 999 call taker put her previous knowledge to good use and called for help when she sensed her partner of more than 30 years became seriously unwell. The calls proved to be lifesaving when avid Brighton & Hove Albion fan Chris Geddes then went into cardiac arrest in front of SECAmb paramedic Kathryn Fox, who along with her colleagues, emergency care support worker Sheenagh Hughes and t
A Kent science teacher, who is lucky to be alive after suffering a tear of his major aorta artery where it exits the heart, is reunited with his lifesavers. With just a 15 to 30 per cent chance of surviving the Type A aortic dissection, South East Coast Ambulance Service colleagues were delighted to be reunited with the father of three from Parkwood in Gillingham, Kent, at Medway Make Ready Centre
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is inviting members of the public to learn CPR, speak to our recruitment team and see our people in action at our Annual Members Meeting (AMM). The AMM takes place at the South of England Showground at Ardingly, West Sussex on Friday 13 September 2024. A range of stalls will be on show from 12.30pm, with tea and coffee served ahead o
Going hand in hand with our newly-launched Strategy, SECAmb is delighted to share today its new Trust Values – Integrity, Kindness & Courage – developed by and with our people. The new values have been chosen to shape, guide and influence how all of our people behave at work and how we treat our patients and each other. They complement each other and, our people told us, should be taken togeth
A mother of three young children from Sittingbourne, Kent was recently able to reunite with the ambulance service colleagues who helped to save her life last year. Gemma Ledger, now aged 39, suffered a cardiac arrest at her home in the early hours of the morning on 23 January 2023, while her three children now aged two, five and 13 were asleep next door. Gemma’s partner of 18 years, Richard, woke
South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) is seeking Kent residents who are passionate about serving their local community and interested in becoming volunteer community first responders (CFRs). CFRs provide invaluable support to our frontline clinicians delivering life-saving treatment to our patients before our frontline crews arrive. With large rural areas in parts of Kent, quickly reaching s
A mother of two who suffered a cardiac arrest while at a fitness class in November 2021, was recently able to meet the ambulance service colleagues who helped to save her life. Molly Potter, now aged 26 from Polegate, East Sussex, was at a kickboxing class with her husband, Colin, and sister Amy, on the evening of 19 November 2021 when she collapsed to the floor in cardiac arrest. Molly’s next mem
An increase in partnership working, and the introduction of an initial further five clinical hubs will be key to South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) delivering on its new five-year strategy. The clinically-led strategy also sets out the Trust’s commitment to embrace new technologies as it transitions from a predominantly ambulance-based response model to a more differe
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.
