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News archive from July 2023
safeguarding
Child Protection Information System audit
The CP-IS have now been in place for a number of months and in response to early feedback, additional guidance has been developed.
31 July 2023
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First Meeting Basic Needs event - recruitment
The first Meeting Basic Needs event takes place this Thursday, 3 August. We invite you to bring any unresolved frustrations relating to the recruitment process to us.
31 July 2023
Pulse Survey. A quick, 5 minute check to listen to your views.
July National Quarterly Pulse survey closes today
Today is your last chance to complete the July National Quarterly Pulse Survey. We’re asking everyone to take a few minutes to share their views.
31 July 2023
InPhase
Notification of InPhase Changes – Emergency and Urgent Care (EUC) only
Following a full prompt review (with operational colleagues input), the CQS and Compliance & Standards team have completed changes to the Trust’s InPhase System.
31 July 2023
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Grammarly - do you know where your data is going?
Whilst Grammarly is a great tool to help with essay writing it must not be used with the Siren ePCR app.
30 July 2023
Keeping well
Understanding your tricky brain and getting to know your mind workshop
You are invited to join a free one-day workshop with Keeping Well BLMK and Dr Chris Irons, a leading expert and published psychologist.
30 July 2023
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National Award for Norwich EOC Duty Manager Thomas Pont
Thomas is to receive a national award from the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) in recognition for outstanding service.
29 July 2023
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EEAST CPD Events (Papworth)
Front line clinical staff are invited to apply for one of the days which will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
29 July 2023
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GoodSAM update
The Trust is now reaching 5 years of the implementation of GoodSAM and would like to provide an update.
29 July 2023
HIV course
New training aims to address HIV related stigma in healthcare
A new elearning programme on HIV related stigma is now available on the NHS Learning Hub.
29 July 2023
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OLM learning platform
We will be moving away from using Evolve, our current learning platform, to the OLM system that can be accessed within ESR.
28 July 2023
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EEAST Wellbeing Champions needed
The Wellbeing team are recruiting for Wellbeing Champions across the trust. A wellbeing Champion can be anyone with a passion for health and wellbeing.
28 July 2023
EXEC UPDATE
Enhanced pay for Cambridge-based employees
EEAST is piloting enhanced pay for staff based from Cambridge stations.
28 July 2023
Money
Your Financial Wellbeing
We’ve teamed up with financial education specialists ‘Affinity Connect’ who would like to personally invite you to attend a 90-minute course looking at the key aspects and considerations you might need to take when planning your finances.
28 July 2023
Take 5 to prepare
Take 5 - Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP)
The latest edition of Take 5 is now available. In this issue we look at Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP).
28 July 2023
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Funeral arrangements for Martin Nuttall
Following the sad passing of Martin Nuttall, we can now share the details of his funeral.
27 July 2023
InPhase
Notification of InPhase Changes – Emergency and Urgent Care (EUC) only
The CQS and Compliance & Standards team will be working together to make changes to InPhase on Thursday the 27th July and Friday 4th August.
27 July 2023
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Men's Wellbeing Network launch meeting
The Men’s Wellbeing Network held its launch meeting recently. If you missed it, a recording of the momentous meeting is now available.
27 July 2023
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This week's We Are EEAST Briefing details
This week's We Are EEAST Briefing and Executive Q&A, where CEO Tom Abell will be joined by Jon Moore and Darren Meads, Deputy Chief Operating Officers, will take place on Thursday afternoon.
27 July 2023
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Sad passing of Clive Pemberton
The trust would like to inform you of the sad passing of retired ECA, Clive Pemberton.
27 July 2023
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Upcoming PTS events
We are holding several engagement events across the region aimed primarily at the PTS Service so we can hear from you and your experiences. A number of colleagues from across the clinical, safety and governance teams will be on hand to answer any questions and talk about all thing’s safety and security.
26 July 2023
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Disposal of vape pens at work
To prevent contamination of the Trust’s waste streams, it is recommended that you take these vapes home with you to dispose of.
26 July 2023
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Freedom To Speak Up Ambassadors (FTSUA) have gone live!
The FTSU team have recruited and trained a select few individuals as FTSUA’s to be there for you when you need support and guidance.
26 July 2023
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Upcoming Gypsy, Romany, and Traveller events
Are you interested in learning more about the rich culture and traditions of the Gypsy, Romany, and Traveller (GRT) communities? Do you want to show your support and raise awareness about their unique way of life?
25 July 2023
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Clinical Update: Nurofen Sachets
We are having issues nationally obtaining Ibuprofen sachets (Nurofen). We are in discussions with NHS England over alternative products that may be available. This is an ongoing issue, with no expected date of its return.
25 July 2023
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Save the Date: Faith and Blue Light Conference
The Mid Essex Interfaith Forum is pleased to invite you to save the date for the upcoming Faith and Blue Light Conference, scheduled to take place on the 18th of October 2023.
25 July 2023
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Siren ePCR Mandatory update
Following feedback from the coroner an additional mandatory will be present within Siren where a digital Role form is used.The mandatory will ensure that the ‘Done by’ section is completed on the ROLE Completed by signature.
24 July 2023
Pulse Survey. A quick, 5 minute check to listen to your views.
July National Quarterly Pulse survey closes soon
Don’t forget to share your views and help improve your Trust. This is the last week to complete the April National Quarterly Pulse Survey.
24 July 2023
Staff at the East of England Ambulance Service (EEAST) picked up two awards at the prestigious Control Room Awards 2023 earlier this month.
Success for EEAST staff at Control Room Awards
Staff at the East of England Ambulance Service (EEAST) picked up two awards at the prestigious Control Room Awards 2023 earlier this month.
22 July 2023
Film Fest 2023
Invitation from North West Anglia Hospitals Charity - FilmFest23
The North West Anglia Hospitals Charity is organising an open-air cinema FilmFest experience at venues in both Peterborough and Huntingdon in August.
22 July 2023
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Management overtime contracts: Update
Calculations will shortly be underway to include those substantive staff with management overtime contracts.
22 July 2023
Flu Bugs
Your COVID information has moved
As of today (21/07/2023), all COVID guidance has moved from NeedtoKnow and information is now sitting on the IPC pages on East24.
21 July 2023
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Launch of EEAST CPD Programme 2023/2024
Personal and professional development helps manage your own learning and growth throughout your career. Continuous Learning and Development helps open new doors in your career and ensures your skills and knowledge are up to date.
21 July 2023
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Sad passing of David Dubar
It is with great sadness that we need to inform you about the death of our colleague David Dubar who worked in Chelmsford EOC.
21 July 2023
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Leadership Learning Circle: LGBT+ Equality
This month’s session of our informal ‘Leadership Learning Circle’ will focus on Inclusive Leadership to raise awareness of the issues faced in the workplace by our lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer + (LGBTQ+) people.
21 July 2023
CIA
Cultural Inclusion Agents needed
The Trust is set to embark on training 30 new Cultural Inclusion Agents (CIAs). This is a voluntary role within the Trust and for staff from all backgrounds.
21 July 2023
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Commercial Week Day Five: A new era for TrainEEAST
It’s the final day of our Commercial Week and it’s time to focus on TrainEEAST.
21 July 2023
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Sad passing of Martin Nuttall
It is with much sadness we confirm the passing of one of our much-loved members of the West Suffolk family Martin Nuttall.
20 July 2023
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Joint Stroke Teaching and Education Sessions
The East of England Integrated Stroke Delivery Network (ISDN) through the work of the Pre-hospital Clinical Advisory Group (CAG) has agreed to explore opportunities to give ambulance crews and staff across the region access to free specialist teaching input and education sessions.
20 July 2023
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Stars of EEAST 2023 photos and video now available!
The professional photos and a video highlight from the awards ceremony are now available to view and download.
20 July 2023
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Recruitment: Change to redeployment pool time frames
An update from the recruitment team around a change to the redeployment pool time frames.
20 July 2023
National Performance Advisory Group
Commercial Week: Day Four: How NPAG could benefit you
Today, we’re looking in more detail at some of the services NPAG offer to NHS colleagues, and finding out how they could benefit us here at EEAST.
20 July 2023
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Public Engagement Volunteers Required
Do you have a passion for public engagement such as educating school children about the service we provide, demonstrating basic first aid skills, giving talks to community groups or helping out on stalls at large county events?
19 July 2023
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Remote Access Changes - Switching off Direct Access
Over the past few months, the Digital team have been working with staff to change the way they connect to the Trust whilst working from home or from a non Trust site.
19 July 2023
Public Board Meeting
Key themes from July Board meeting
Following last week’s Board meeting we’re sharing some of the main themes that were discussed and highlighting priorities for the Board going forward.
19 July 2023
National Performance Advisory Group
Commercial Week Day Three: Meet NPAG
Today, our Commercial Week is focusing on NPAG, the NHS National Performance Advisory Group (NPAG), which is based here at EEAST.
19 July 2023
Image of clock and text The National Quarterly Pulse Survey. A quick 5 minute check in to listen to your views.
July National Quarterly Pulse survey is still live
The July National Quarterly Pulse survey is now live and will run until 31st July and we’re asking everyone to take a few minutes to share their views.
18 July 2023
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We Are EEAST Briefing - Thursday 13th July 2023
A recording of the latest We Are EEAST Briefing and Executive Q&A, led by Tom Abell, CEO and Andrew Gay, Head of Commercial Services who talks about commercial week.
18 July 2023
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Understanding your Pension Changes
Financial wellbeing specialists ‘Affinity Connect’ would like to invite you to attend an interactive 90 minute online course.
18 July 2023
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Notification of Datix downtime – Wednesday 19th July 2023
The service will be disrupted and unavailable between 18:00hrs and 00:00hrs on Wednesday 19th July 2023.
18 July 2023
Ambulance PE report
Work begins on new Bury hub
Work begins this month on the new central reporting hub station near Bury St Edmunds.
18 July 2023
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Commercial Week Day Two: Grace's story
It’s day two of Commercial Week and it’s over to Grace Mcgregor to tell us about her experience of being a member of the CallEEAST team.
18 July 2023
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Men’s Wellbeing Network launch meeting is today
The Men’s Wellbeing Network is delighted to invite you to its launch meeting taking place today at 2pm. Do join us the link here.
17 July 2023
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Libra Diabetic App - for information
Over the weekend an issue arose with the Abbott Freestyle LibraLink App - here is a statement from NHS England.
17 July 2023
NHS Big Tea 2023
Celebrating 75 Years of the NHS
July 5th was the 75th birthday of NHS and celebrations took across EEAST.
17 July 2023
Commercial Week 2023
Kicking off EEAST Commercial Week
This week, we’re going behind the scenes with EEAST’s Commercial Service Business Units, to find out more about the key role they play in the Trust.
17 July 2023
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Please be aware of malicious email
Please be aware of the email that has been sent to several members of staff. It has been identified as a credential scraping phishing email.
14 July 2023
Mental Health Stock
Course for EEAST managers
Develop the skills and confidence to have meaningful conversations with staff about wellbeing, and the knowledge to reduce the impact of work-related stress.
14 July 2023
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Overtime Incentive Scheme
Due to potential pressures within the NHS, the Trust is offering incentive payments for selected overtime shifts later this month.
14 July 2023
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Volunteers complete First Level 3 Award By CFR training
We have recently finished delivering the first in-house qualification that will allow our volunteer trainers to assist with the induction training for CFRs.
14 July 2023
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This week's We Are EEAST Briefing details
This week's We Are EEAST Briefing and Executive Q&A, where CEO Tom Abell will be joined by Andrew Gay, Head of Commercial Services, will take place on Thursday afternoon.
12 July 2023
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Meeting Basic Needs Programme
Through working with departments empowered to change Trust processes, the Meeting Basic Needs Programme has been developed to run across ten weeks from August.
12 July 2023
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A new East24 is coming late this summer!
We are combining and replacing the current East24 and NeedtoKnow platforms with a brand new SharePoint based intranet.
12 July 2023
Ambulance nurses to join EEAST
Stroke Video Triage Newsletter: June 2023
The Stroke Video Triage newsletter for June 2023 is now available to read.
11 July 2023
Celebration of the first cohort to complete the University of Cumbria Paramedic Degree Apprenticeship
‘Phenomenal results’ achieved by first paramedic degree apprenticeship group
The first cohort of EEAST staff to qualify as paramedics through a new apprenticeship degree programme with the University of Cumbria have been celebrated at a special ceremony after achieving ‘phenomenal results’.
11 July 2023
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School visit marks NHS 75th birthday
Tom Abell, CEO, went back to school last week, as part of the NHS75 celebrations, aimed at inspiring pupils to consider a career in healthcare.
11 July 2023
EEAST BME Network
Participate in South Asian Heritage Month
The BME Network are looking for any members of staff who would like to get involved and share their story to help celebrate South Asian Heritage Month.
11 July 2023
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New CQC Booklet published
We have published our updated guide for all staff on how to prepare for the CQC.
11 July 2023
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Oliver McGowan Learning Disability Training
We are pleased to confirm that The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism is now available to you through OLM.
11 July 2023
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Sad passing of Martin Collins
Following the very sad passing of Martin Collins the funeral arrangement have been confirmed.
10 July 2023
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Men’s Wellbeing Network invites you to the launch meeting
The Men’s Wellbeing Network is delighted to invite you to its first launch meeting taking place on July 17th. You can join the meeting using the link here.
10 July 2023
Pulse Survey. A quick, 5 minute check to listen to your views.
Have your say with July National Quarterly Pulse survey
The July National Quarterly Pulse survey is now live and will run until 31st July and we’re asking everyone to take a few minutes to share their views.
10 July 2023
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International Paramedics Day 2023: Jonathan Kear
This #InternationalParamedicsDay, we’ve spoken to Associate Ambulance Practitioner and soon-to-be paramedic, Jonathan!
08 July 2023
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International Paramedics Day 2023: Phil and Rachel
Hear what inspired Phil Hayden and Rachel Rampley to join the ambulance service and what they love most about their roles this #InternationalParamedicsDay.
08 July 2023
Celebrating International Paramedics Day
Celebrating International Paramedics Day 2023
Chief Allied Health Professional, Simon Chase, talks about the importance of International Paramedics Day and how you can get involved.
08 July 2023
Celebrating the NHS 75th Birthday, Chaplain Tony Mills, Philip Bygrave, Terry Hicks and Zoe Martindale
EEAST represented at Westminster Abbey service to mark NHS 75th Birthday
Staff at EEAST joined colleagues from across the NHS at a service at Westminster Abbey to mark the NHS’s 75th Birthday.
07 July 2023
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HR Policy Update
There is an ongoing project to review and modernise HR policies, including updating them to a more user-friendly format.
07 July 2023
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Research newsletter - summer 2023
This newsletter will keep you up to date on what the Research Support Services team work are working on and how you can become involved in research.
07 July 2023
NHS Big Tea 2023
Free entry to RHS Gardens
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NHS, and to say thank you to all NHS workers, NHS staff are invited to visit the 5 RHS gardens for free from 5th – 11th July 2023.
07 July 2023
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Your Stars of EEAST 2023
On Wednesday evening the Trust came together at Barrington Hall in Cambridgeshire to celebrate our annual Stars of EEAST awards.
06 July 2023
Money
Work-related sick pay
The NHS Staff Council have issued a joint statement which includes an overview of the changes that were made to ESR from 1 July 2023.
06 July 2023
Mental Health Stock
Managing mental health in the workplace: Course for EEAST managers
Develop the skills and confidence to have meaningful conversations with staff about wellbeing, and the knowledge to reduce the impact of work-related stress.
06 July 2023
Sunshine
Shorts are now available to pre-order
Following feedback from staff regarding weather appropriate uniform, shorts are now available to pre order for frontline staff.
05 July 2023
NHS Big Tea 2023
75% off in Morrisons Café for NHS workers today
Celebrate the 75th birthday of the NHS with Morrisons. NHS workers can enjoy a whopping 75% off with every Café purchase.
05 July 2023
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Stars of EEAST 2023 Awards - Live streaming link
The Stars of EEAST 2023 Awards take place this evening and for those unable to attend we’ll be live streaming the ceremony.
05 July 2023
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Follow the paddleboarding record attempt
Follow Joe Cartwright and David Haze in their record attempt with a live tracker.
04 July 2023
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Corpuls pre-shift test procedure
With the new Corpuls C3T’s launching into sector’s, we are adopting a new pre-shift check procedure with immediate effect.
04 July 2023
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EEAST Wellbeing Champions
The Wellbeing Team are recruiting again for Wellbeing Champions across the trust.
04 July 2023
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Senior EMT Agreement Update
We are now in a position to share the decision that has been taken, and we would like to extend our gratitude for your patience.
04 July 2023
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We Are EEAST Briefing - Thursday 29th June 2023
A recording of the latest We Are EEAST Briefing and Executive Q&A, led by Deputy CEO Kate Vaughton and Hein Scheffer, Director of Strategy, Culture and Education, is now available.
03 July 2023
Money
Affinity Connect Retirement and Finance Courses
Affinity Connect would like to personally invite you to attend two online courses around finances.
03 July 2023
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Close Calls July
EEAST will feature in two of the incidents covered by the BBC programme Close Calls on Camera this month.
03 July 2023
Image of clock and text The National Quarterly Pulse Survey. A quick 5 minute check in to listen to your views.
The July National Quarterly Pulse survey is now live
The July National Quarterly Pulse survey is now live from today and will run until 31st July and we’re asking everyone to take a few minutes to share their views.
03 July 2023