Innovative new advances with technology and e-learning are the main focus of the latest edition of REDistribute, a newsletter from the Resilience and Emergencies Division (RED).
A look back on 2016 and a big thank you to everyone: this week’s executive message comes from out Director of Strategy and Sustainability, Wayne Bartlett-Syree.
Cardiac arrests are unpredictable and catastrophic in nature, with a brief therapeutic window of opportunity. Therefore, every element of our system is of vital importance.
Colleagues are asked to be extra careful online over the next few days due to the expected increase in attempts to con people, particularly via email, due to Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales and offers.
For paramedics in west Norfolk carrying a drug called syntometrine, used in post-partum haemorrhage, and emergency care practitioners carrying chloramphenicol antibiotic eye drops, please remember that these drugs are classed as cytotoxic.
To open up potential options, we’ve started work on an international recruitment campaign to attract candidates from the rest of Europe and further afield such as Australia.
As a Trust, it’s one of our clinical priorities this year to improve care and experience for people and their families/carers at the end of their life along with looking to offer you more support.
As we reported last week we received a staggering 1,771 responses to the cultural audit. Zeal solutions, the company conducting the audit, have compiled the initial results from your responses which you can view here.
As part of our cardiac arrest care month, Area Clinical Lead Ash Richardson gives us an honest and poignant insight into an arrest he recently attended, and what he felt could have gone better.
We’ve had word that a fellow NHS trust recently received a call from someone claiming to be a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspector, who asked for personal staff details as part of an independent complaint.
Our Bedford office will be getting a slice of the action next week, as they hold their very own Great Bedford Bake Off – all to raise money for this year’s Children in Need.
So far, more than 900 of you have had your flu jab. But it’s still not too late to get yours! There’s often a lot of myth around the jab - do you have questions?
Emergency medical technician Will McFarland, based at Hemel Hempstead, tells us about The Ambulance Service Charity (TASC) - and what it can do for you.
With Instagram being one of the fastest growing social media platforms and a popular channel with younger users, we’d love to grow this audience and we need your help to do that.
Prolonging a life usually provides a health benefit to that person. But when it is not appropriate to do so at all costs? Advanced decisions to refuse treatment, and DNACPR, are difficult subjects.
Good and effective CPR at the right depth and rate is one of the essentials to any cardiac arrest survival. But can we do more for the most life-threatened patients we see?
As we are coming into the winter months, different types of batteries in some of our devices can perform differently by being stored in cold temperatures.
A project to make sure patients experiencing a mental health crisis have rapid access to care has received £200,000 to develop and deploy two new specialist vehicles.
“Fantastic”, “superb”, and “excellent” were to name some of the many compliments made by respondents of our latest patient experience report when speaking about you.
It is with great sadness that we have to announce that our former colleague Teresa Lee, an emergency care practitioner (ECP) in Norfolk, passed away on Sunday, 30th October.
A batch of hydrocortisone sodium phosphate injections, 100mg/1ml, has been recalled by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) after reports of discolouration.
As our Twitter account passes the 18,000 follower mark this week, we’d to highlight a few of our new Trust accounts to our tweeting staff and volunteers that you may be interested in following:
We know that for someone in cardiac arrest, getting there quickly is only half the story – what we actually do on scene makes a phenomenal difference to the patient’s chances of survival.
Dispatcher Matthew Harvey has thanked colleagues in Chelmsford and across the region for fundraising in the name of his daughter Iyla ahead of the next sprint towards his family’s charitable goals.
With everything from a good head-tilt-chin-lift to advanced airways falling under the ‘airway’ umbrella, there is a lot to remember. So throughout November we’re offering free, personalised, airway management drop-in sessions.
As you know, over the summer we asked staff for their views about the organisation as part of our cultural audit. Over the last few months we have been processing all the results and are now wanting feedback from staff on these....
Heart health is at the centre of a cardiac care inspired ‘takeover’ this week, with the public being urged to think about prevention being better than cure.
It is with great sadness we share the news that Bill Brady, a community first responder (CFR) and co-ordinator in Bedfordshire passed away on Friday, 28th October after a period of illness.