North Essex Partnership is hosting a number of training events in November and December which are primarily for the benefit of GP nurses, staff in acute or emergency services and other healthcare professionals.
If you would like to be considered for this role please send an expression of interest to Nicola Irons at Nicola.irons@eastamb.nhs.uk along with a brief professional resume.
The Trust, Health Education East of England, Anglia Ruskin University and the University of East Anglia won a joint bid to take part in the Health Education England Paramedic Pre-Degree Pilot scheme commencing in January 2016.
It is with great sadness that we share the news of Geoff Follett, chaplain to Potters Bar ambulance station, who died on Wednesday 18th November, after a period of illness.
The Trust Board have approved the concept of starting to move to a Make Ready service at the Board meeting today (Thurs 26th November) in Great Notley.
It has been identified by the Patient Safety Team over the past few weeks that there may be some confusion over the dose of intra-muscular Adrenaline 1:1000 for paediatric patients suffering with life-threatening asthma or anaphylaxis.
The ‘Message in a Bottle’ scheme, run by The Lions Club, is designed to encourage people to keep their personal and medical details on a standard form and in a common location – the fridge.
The deadline for staff to complete and submit their staff survey is fast approaching. Completed questionnaires have to be submitted by this Friday (27th November)
Staff have spoken out about the impact of violence from the people they help after new figures revealed an increase in the number of physical assaults.
I want to start this week by expressing my respect and solidarity to our colleagues in Paris who provided the emergency response following the atrocious terrorist attacks last week.
‘Winter is coming’ so goes the famous line from Game of Thrones, and EEAST like all other NHS trusts are putting a campaign in place to help communicate some of the main themes of the season.
Unfortunately, Norfolk SLM Di Chan had to share sad news this week that our colleagues Kerry and Iain Colquhoun’s daughter Maisie passed away peacefully in her sleep on Friday (13th November) at home, aged 17.
We continue to work with the University of East Anglia (EUA) and Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) who are going through the application process with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) for their paramedic courses as prior to any programme starting it must be approved HCPC.
Today (Wednesday 18th November) is World COPD Day which aims to raise awareness for chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) and improve care for its sufferers.
Recently a message was circulated to staff encouraging people to contact the Care Quality Commission (CQC) as an inspection of the Trust was due to take place soon.
The Trust has secured £45,000 in funding from Health Education England (HEE) to support outcomes within the Equality Diversity System and the Workforce Race Equality Standards.
Did you know there are about 300,000 people with diabetes in our region and each year EEAST receives about 10,000 emergency calls from people having a diabetes emergency?
The Essex and Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) charity is holding its monthly clinical governance day on Tuesday (17th November) at 10am and Trust staff are invited along.
The aim of the team is to develop and manage quality improvement and assurance in commissioned services to fulfill statutory duties on behalf of and in collaboration with Executive team.
In my message about the development of a Trust strategy in October, I indicated that our next strategic plan would need to expand on our models of care..
A number of England’s ambulance services are currently trialling new emergency response times in an attempt to see if it helps them to reach the most serious 999 cases more quickly and cut wasted use of resources.
A number of you have been in touch with Need to Know, the training team, and Chief Executive Robert Morton about our ECA to EMTs courses. Here we try and provide a short update to share the latest news with you…
The loss of a loved one is always a dark time for a family, and there is sometimes little we can do apart from showing compassion and sensitivity in those sad situations.
On the first anniversary of the Five Year Forward View, the NHS Confederation has produced a visual guide to show what three areas of change the landmark document focuses on.