South East Coast Ambulance Service, (SECAmb), is inviting people to help shape a new Patient Experience Strategy. The Trust is keen to ensure it further develops its service to be responsive and tailored to patient needs and wants people to tell it what matters to them most in relation to their experience of NHS services. People are invited to take a few moments to complete a short questionnaire,
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is pleased to have been chosen as one of NHS Employers’ Diversity and Inclusion Partners for 2019/120. The decision followed a successful application process by the Trust and is the second year running it has been named as a partner. It will see SECAmb continue to work closely with NHS Employers and other organisations throughout the
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Chief Executive. Philip Astle, will take up the role on 1 September, replacing Dr Fionna Moore, who has acted up as CEO on an interim basis since the departure of Daren Mochrie. Philip joins SECAmb from South Central Ambulance Service where he is currently Chief Operating Officer. Dr Mo
South East Coast Ambulance Service is pleased to see improvements across all areas in its results from the annual NHS Staff Survey published today, (26 February). The results of individual questions, grouped into 10 key themes, represent the best ever scores for SECAmb since they were introduced in 2014, and when compared with last year’s scores, show significant improvements in every area where c
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is pleased to announce the appointment of a new independent Non-Executive Director. Tricia McGregor, from Epsom, Surrey, will initially serve a three-year term from 1 January 2018 and fills a vacant clinical specialism post. Tricia is a speech and language therapist and a visiting professor in the School of Health Sciences at the Uni
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is pleased to announce the appointment of two new substantive Executive Directors. Steve Emerton has been appointed to the role of Executive Director of Strategy and Business Development and will join the Trust on 2 January 2018. Ed Griffin has been appointed to the role of Executive Director of HR and Organisation Development and wi
A new set of ambulance response standards, aimed at delivering the quickest response possible for the most critically-ill or injured patients, will be introduced in South East Coast Ambulance Service from next week (22 November). The new nationally-determined standards, which have been introduced across the country in recent months, see current Red 1, Red 2 and Green category calls replaced with f
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published its report following a planned inspection of South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) in May 2017. While the report recognises that progress since the previous inspection in May 2016 has been made in some areas, it concludes this has not been as rapid or as widespread as it might have been, meaning the Trust continues to
South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb) is looking forward to welcoming Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) staff from Banstead as they join their colleagues at the Trust’s new EOC and HQ in Crawley. Staff currently based at Banstead will work their first shift at the Trust’s Manor Royal site from the morning of Tuesday 5 September. They will also join their colleagues in Crawley and the Trust’s
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has today (4 August) published a large-scale independent report to help it better understand and help tackle bullying and harassment issues at the Trust. The independent report, which was commissioned by SECAmb itself, and produced by Professor Duncan Lewis from Plymouth University, follows concerns raised in the Trust’s staff survey