With healthy eating classes, mindfulness workshops and post-it notes galore, last week’s ‘Shaping the future’ engagement event was a fun-filled and interactive day.
So far just 17% of you have completed your staff survey – meaning only 17% are in with a chance of winning £250 worth of gym, spa and training vouchers!
It’s the kind of scenario you’d be hard pushed to write as fiction, let alone fact. Welwyn Garden City resident Geoff Poore spent 10 years teaching CPR - but little did he know that three of this students would one day save his own life.
There are only a few places left for the Blue Light manager training programme, which is a national initiative that aims to better support the mental health of people working in the emergency services.
The University of East Anglia is evaluating the GP advice line and enhanced triage scheme, to look into developing future alternative patient care pathways.
As a gentle reminder, when conveying a patient directly to a hospital ward please remember to press the ‘other’ button rather than the ‘A&E’ one on the MDT.
Congratulations to Dave Thurgood, Community First Responder from Harlow, for winning the best two minutes of CPR as part of a series of cardiac fun days across the Trust.
Last Friday (9th October) ambulance personnel from across the country came together to pay their respects at the funeral of our much-missed colleague, Andy Ashman.
More than 300 of you have completed the annual NHS staff survey since it was emailed out to the Trust last week – a big thank you to those who have completed it so far.
Places are still available on our Shaping the Future event, where our Chief Executive Robert Morton will be setting out his vision for the Trust and we will be asking delegates for their thoughts, views and experiences.
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the Department of Health have launched a £1m scheme to make public access defibrillators and CPR training more available across England.
We’ve launched several new accounts on Twitter to help complement our main @EastEnglandAmb account and help us to further engage with different audiences
Over the last few months the payroll team has been receiving an increasing number of requests from staff for copies of their payslips to help with things like tax returns and mortgage applications.
It is fitting that I start this message by paying tribute to all those whom have worked tirelessly to progress our recovery and support the community through a very difficult time in the organisation’s lifetime.
Implementation plans for our new CAD system, called CLERIC, are well underway and we are aiming to go live in Bedford EOC in the early hours of Wednesday, 18th November.
Influenza, or flu, is a highly transmissible and serious infection. Last year, 1,184 people in the UK were admitted to intensive care because of it, and more than 10% of those people lost their lives.
Do you want to be able to critically appraise a journal article but don’t know where to start? Do you want to find the latest published evidence in pre-hospital clinical practice?
The Ambulance Services Charity (TASC), which provides support to ambulance staff and their families, has launched a rehabilitation pilot to help staff who have been injured return to work.
We have had instances recently of staff attempting to free garage doors when they have failed due to a mechanical or electrical fault or vehicular impact.
Our call handlers and IT teams have been thanked this week for their part in improving our 999 call pick-up times by nearly 20 seconds in under a year.
The Right-2 is a UK-wide ambulance-based study exploring whether lowering blood pressure at the acute onset of stroke (<4 hours), reduces death and disability.
With 30 obstacles through woodland, lakes and across steep hills, Suffolk’s 25km Spartan race is recognised as being one of the hardest race events in the UK.
From today (1st October), if you have a team vacancy that sits within your agreed structure and budget you can recruit to it without getting executive management board (EMB) approval.