Archive

We are asking all members of staff and our volunteers to complete this questionnaire to understand in what individual capabilities we have across all areas of the Trust.

Don't forget to register your free place for a Webinar hosted by the University of Warwick Clinical Trials Unit on 4th September.

Personal and professional development helps manage your own learning and growth throughout your career.

A summary of media coverage related to EEAST over the past week

We have created a short survey to gather your feedback on Commercial Week, so we can look to continue increasing our internal brand awareness.

A recording of the latest We Are EEAST Briefing and Executive Q&A, led by CEO Tom Abell, is now available.

Diane Dingley is an Unmet Needs Facilitator and has been with the Trust for over 14 years.

Disabled and disadvantaged children in Norfolk enjoying a fun day out with the East Coast Truckers Children’s Convoy will be supported by East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) staff.

Further improvements have been recognised at EEAST with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) lifting two more conditions on its licence.

Sepsis Awareness starts in September and Learning and Development have arranged several CPD courses to help raise awareness of Sepsis for our Clinicians.

This week's We Are EEAST Briefing, led by CEO Tom Abell, will be held on Thursday afternoon.

Engaging panel talks, interactive stalls, networking with like minded people, 1-1 clinics with various experts and an empowering experience.

The National Mobilisation Application is the new mobilisation solution being rolled out across all English ambulance services.

#SafeInTheBack is a campaign to highlight the serious implications of not wearing seatbelts or harnessing patients properly in the back of ambulance vehicles.

The Department of Health has now confirmed that the King’s Coronation medals will be distributed to all ambulance trusts early in 2024.

We will be holding a Wellbeing Walk at Nowton Park, Bury St Edmunds from 9 until 11 am on Friday 25th August and are doing this in celebration of International Dogs Day that is taking place on Sat 26th August.

The next Meeting Basic Needs event takes place this Friday, 25 August 2023.

Joe Cartwright is a leading operations manager (LOM) who has been with the Trust for 22 years.

Please note that Evolve will be inaccessible to users from 21:00 on 20/08/2023 to approximately 18:00 21/08/2023.

#SafeInTheBack campaign is being led by the AACE to highlight the serious implications of not wearing seatbelts or harnessing patients properly in the back of ambulance vehicles.

A video message from our CEO Tom Abell to mark his two years with EEAST.

Our Make Ready teams are a critical part of our work to deliver for patients, preparing A&E vehicles before they are used to respond to a call by frontline staff and freeing up thousands of hours of patient-facing time.

A review of the media coverage in the past week

Landlord, Philip Taylor of the Kings Head in Loddon donated £2,000 to the EEAST charity, for his local EEAST Community First Responder group.

As we wait to hear when our next CQC inspection will take place, work continues across all areas of the Trust to improve and progress the actions that were set following our last CQC inspection.

The East of England Integrated Stroke Delivery Network through the work of the Pre-hospital Clinical Advisory Group has agreed to explore opportunities to give ambulance crews and staff across the region access to free specialist teaching input and education sessions.

To date, we have held two events which focused on helping people with issues relating to recruitment and rostering services.

This anonymous survey consists of 10 short ECG case studies and has been put together to help understand areas to focus future learning, education, and resources on to improve STEMI recognition.

A recording of the latest We Are EEAST Briefing and Executive Q&A is now available. This week CEO Tom Abell was joined by our Director of People Services, Marika Stephenson.

Stryker has introduced new Infection Prevention and Control-compliant restraints for their trolleys. The old ones will be slowly phased out.

This month, Hein's blog focuses on values and culture.

We're sharing Senior Emergency Medical Technician, Georgina's journey as part of our new CareerForLife recruitment campaign.

Recently, NHS England revamped its quality improvement branding and NHS Impact was launched.

The Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Warwick will be hosting another webinar in September for all to attend.

Meet Kris Moore, Quality Improvement Manager, who, despite living with Asperger's, has emerged as an invaluable asset in driving positive change within the organisation.

The Oliver McGowan Learning Disability and Autism Training is now available on OLM.

We need you and your expertise to help support and shape our 6 staff networks and make EEAST a more inclusive, diverse place to work.

Recently members of the EOC team, Tom Abel, operations and equality, diversity, and inclusion team attended the National Ambulance LGBT+ Network Conference.

Stroke Video Triage has been implemented since late 2022 in North Cambridgeshire (Peterborough) and West Essex, here is the newsletter for July/August 2023.

The planning and resourcing programme is an exciting new project to transform and improve our resource planning and scheduling.

This week's We Are EEAST Briefing and Executive Q&A with CEO Tom Abell and Director of People Services Marika Stephenson, will take place on Thursday afternoon.

Datix will be disrupted and unavailable between 18:00hrs and 00:00hrs on Wednesday 16th August 2023.

Thomas Pont, Duty Manager at Norwich EOC, has won an award from the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE).

We are pleased to confirm that Freedom to Speak Up training is now available to you through OLM.

The Trust has welcomed its first students with autism for work experience trials.

Having been on a secondment within one of our ICBs, I have learnt so much about the wider challenges and opportunities for all patients.

The next Meeting Basic Needs event takes place this Thursday, 10 August. We invite you to bring any unresolved frustrations relating to the rostering system to us.

A young mum had an emotional reunion with the team from EEAST and Magpas Air Ambulance who helped save the lives of her twin boys after they were born prematurely.

We would like to take this opportunity to address some of the concerns raised since the decision to end the senior EMT (SEMT) agreement.

As a Trust we will be running 14 Marauding Terrorist Attack exercises again this year, during September and October. The exercises will test responders from the Police, Fire and Rescue Service as well as the Ambulance Service.

In an attempt to improve staff experiences with the Clinical Advice Line and to promote shared decision making we have created a feedback form.

We're sharing Community Response Manager, Jonathan's journey as part of our new CareerForLife recruitment campaign.

EEAST are working with NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (NHS AGEM) to be the first NHS Ambulance Service to trial this new type of always on Connectivity.

This role will be one of the Senior Lecturers for the EEAST programme and will be supported by the principal lecturer, programme lead and clinical lecturers.

The Trust is preparing to introduce more electric rapid response vehicles (RRVs) and to trial electric ambulances in 2024.

Important information on potent synthetic opioids implicated in heroin overdoses and deaths.

A recording of the latest We Are EEAST Briefing and Executive Q&A led by Tom Abell, CEO. Tom was joined by Darren Meads, Head of Performance and Jon Moore, Deputy Chief Operating Officer.

The Information Governance team would like to make our staff and volunteers aware of a recent scam that is circulating regarding the Bookings.com.

The purpose of the Controlled Drug Denaturing Kits is to ensure that Controlled Drug wastage is disposed of in a safe manor.

The Wellbeing Team is pleased to announce that welfare wagons will continue to provide wellbeing support to our staff and volunteers with a revamped model.

As part of our desire to simplify and clarify our progression pathways, the decision has been made for EEAST to move away from EMT apprenticeships.

Important information about the supply paracetamol.

Would you be interested in helping us learn more about the possible impacts of vitamin D levels on ambulance service staff?

As a Trust we are committed to providing non-emergency patient transport services (PTS) that are patient centred and allow our patient transport staff to deliver an excellent service.

Following the sad passing of a colleague who was a member of the Trust’s Death in Service Benefit Scheme, all members will have a deduction from their August salary.