The Trust has developed a comprehensive leadership strategy based on four key themes of compassionate and systems leadership, improvement methods and talent management.

Since our recognition scheme first began in 2012, more than 900 of our amazing staff and volunteers have been nominated by colleagues.

Recently, flag or pointer wheel nut indicators have been fitted to the front tyres of all ambulances.

All qualified clinicians and students are invited to attend Essex and Herts Air Ambulance Trust’s aeromedical conference, taking place next month.

Over the past few years we have outgrown our facilities at Stevenage Fire station and we wanted to develop a new ambulance hub which could be a make ready depot.

As you are probably aware, the current national threat level has been changed from critical to severe.

The e-Learning Continuous Professional Development (CPD) project is a suite of modules on Health Education England’s e-Learning for Healthcare platform, which paramedics can now access for free.

Our clinical waste drivers will shortly be making routine healthcare waste collection to Trust sites.

Temperatures are set to soar into the high 20s over the bank holiday weekend and we’ve been giving out advice to the public to help them avoid suffering in the sun.

Last month, we shared the sad news that Roger Ditcham, one of our longest serving community first responder passed away.

Earlier this month we shared news of the sad loss of Gary Lacey, our colleague and friend.

Bedford EOC welcomed four new call handlers to the team, after they completed their initial classroom training to achieve their AMPDS Emergency Medical Dispatcher license.

Health and Wellbeing Project Support Officer, Suzy Oakley has organised a charity run – with fun being the key word!

The crew changeover process has recently been revised to take into account learning from incidents reported on Datix.

Ambulance staff have been praised by patients for a “fantastic”, “professional” and “super service”.

Thousands of students learnt to save to life last year during Restart a Heart Day.

It’s only 1 week until Volunteers' Week 2017 kicks off and we can’t wait to showcase and thank our amazing volunteers!

This year’s Ramadan will begin on Saturday, 27th May and last for 30 days.

The University of Suffolk is hosting a Practice Education Based Learning conference in Suffolk and there are still places available for EEAST staff to attend.

There has recently been a rise is acid attacks, which are often organised by criminal gangs. There has been no threat from any specific group or groups against the emergency services, but we will be called to deal with the aftermath and may not know the perpetrators whereabouts.

As last week's dementia awareness week came to a close, it allowed me to review the progress of the Trust’s dementia strategy, along with a personal reflection of where we find ourselves in in supporting all affected by or living with dementia.

This week’s HR e-zine, with the latest job vacancies, expressions of interest and transfer opportunities, has been published.

Following this week’s devastating attacks in Manchester, the Government's emergency committee, COBRA, has raised the UK Security Threat Level to ‘Critical’.

All staff are invited to a training session on end of life care in Watford.

From Monday, 12th June, the pre-packed drug Clopidogrel/Plavix 300mg supply at Papworth Hospital will stop.

It may be some months off yet, but this year’s Remembrance Sunday falls on 12th November.

The wellbeing and mental health of our staff and volunteers will be the focus of the latest public Board meeting on Wednesday (24th May).

From Monday (22nd May), the way you activate the stroke team at Ipswich hospital is changing.

The University of Bedfordshire is hosting a series of study days about dementia care.

Three national organisations have signed up to unite against dementia with the charity Alzheimer’s Society.

It’s celebration time for Chelmsford EOC, with Call Handler Anna Mutonga achieving her Bronze call handler award.

Student Paramedic Ryan has set himself the ultimate challenge of cycling from London to Paris. The total mileage is 308 miles, which will be split in to an average of 75 miles a day.

As part of Business Continuity Awareness Week we will today be taking a look at password protection.

Communications Manager Tara Rose is leaving the EEAST team next week; but before she moves on to pastures new, we asked her to reflect on her time here at the Trust.

Staff at Ely were devastated to hear that one of their own had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and feel that now is the time to give something back to him.

A cardiac arrest survivor has thanked his life savers in an emotional reunion at his home in Thorpe Le Soken this week (15th May).

Following on from your feedback, we are introducing a new paediatric oximetry lead.

This Saturday, 20th May, will see a group of EEAST staff, along with some of their friends and family, take part in the Tough Mudder event at Belvoir Castle in the Midlands.

We are holding a number of engagement days, where staff can drop in to see how to access and use MiDOS

This week’s HR e-zine, with the latest job vacancies, expressions of interest and transfer opportunities, has been published.

The latest Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme (JESIP) newsletter is available online.

Today, as part of Business Continuity Awareness Week, we’ll be taking a look at the recent WannaCry cyber-attack; what it was and how it affected the NHS.

Chelmsford Senior Call Handler Tamsin Jae Smith has been rewarded for her achievements in call handling by receiving her gold call handler award.

Biggleswade ambulance station may just seem like any other station within EEAST, but behind the garage doors sits one of the Trusts most interesting assets, a vintage 1950’s ambulance.

Today see’s the start of the annual Business Continuity Awareness Week, with this year’s theme being cyber security.

Are you interested in supporting multi-agency working?

The thought of shaving our head would make many of us turn and run in the opposite direction. But for Norwich call handler Lucy, it was the perfect way to raise money for a friend diagnosed with cancer.

In the last few months, the IT team have noticed a high number of ‘phishing’ emails and asking staff to remain vigilant.

After recently completing our digital radio refresh, the delivery team are this week beginning to update all the Terrafix maps on every vehicle’s MDT.

A “little heroine” has been praised for her actions which saved her uncle’s life just weeks ago.

Corpuls units have been rolled out to all operational areas, meaning anyone on ambulances, RRVs, DLOs and supervisor cars should now only use Corpuls.

The Trust’s dementia strategy launch at the December Board meeting set out three years’ worth of ambitions for us to be a dementia-friendly organisation.

For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been looking at the way we dispose and manage clinical waste.

Paramedic Jamie Gray from Waveney station faced every parent’s nightmare when son Ollie was diagnosed with Leukaemia.

The East Anglian Air Ambulance are developing and creating a training and education programme and want to hear from you.

Do you regularly witness inconsiderate driving or parking from other motorists? Does the driving of others affect your ability to get to patients quickly on a regular basis?

Bedford emergency clinical advice and triage centre (ECAT) Clinician Chloe Dyer has some interesting plans for her Saturday night this weekend; she will be joining thousands of other participants to take part in a 15.2 mile trek across London.

Volunteer representatives from all of our volunteer sections got together on Friday (5th May) for the second forum of the year.

This week’s HR e-zine, with the latest job vacancies, expressions of interest and transfer opportunities, has been published.

Inside Government would like to invite staff from EEAST to attend a conference on ‘Enhancing the use of social marketing to improve public health’.

It’s with great sadness that we share the news that Gary Lacey, our much-loved colleague, passed away on Sunday (7th May) after a long illness.

Are you taking part in this year’s Volunteers’ week?

Twelve courageous paramedics and student paramedics have taken on the challenge of swimming the English Channel this summer.

Set up to help progress early stage innovations from within the NHS, the Medtech Accelerator is looking for applications from individuals or teams with innovations in the broad area of medical technology that meets unmet clinical needs.

Every year, Garry Clark, an emergency care practitioner (ECP) from Brentwood station, hosts a charity dinner dance event in aid of various different charities, which in the past has included the air ambulance.

Places are available for an evening of respiratory medicine and cardiology lectures at Watford General Hospital.

As reported in Need to Know this week, a new special interest group has been set up by our Director of People and Culture Lindsey Stafford-Scott.

A special interest group established by Lindsey Stafford-Scott, Director of People and Culture to provide women within the Trust with networking opportunities, open up mentoring pathways and encourage and support personal and professional development has been launched.

Staff, managers and volunteers have been thanked for their efforts during a busy holiday weekend. The Trust received almost 9,000 emergency calls over the course of the three day May Day bank holiday.

Two women, two ambulances, one goal: to cross the finish line first.

Five year old Alfie from Chelmsford, along with his mum Sara and sister, Amber, spent the morning with some of our EEAST staff recently. This play date wasn’t just any old play date though, as last year, these people saved Alfie’s life.

As many of you will know, the way we dispose and manage clinical waste is changing soon. Following on from last week’s Need to Know article, this week we are looking at how an infection affects how we separate waste.

If you are a member of the 2015 NHS Pension Scheme, you are able to access an early retirement reduction buy out (ERRBO) agreement.

A national database of all services commissioned within the NHS, which provides information on how they can be accessed, is available to all staff.

This week’s HR e-zine, with the latest job vacancies, expressions of interest and transfer opportunities, has been published.

The principles of the Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme (JESIP) will be temporarily abandoned in part of Cambridgeshire when a charity tournament kicks off.

The occupational health (OH) team has added additional clinics over the next few months.

New Internal Communications Officer Ashleigh Rickards – who worked in the Chelmsford EOC until joining the Communications team - spent a day with Chelmsford crew Emergency Medical Technician Barrie Williams and Student Paramedic Fiona Newsome last month.

A group of our guys and girls in green are swapping work boots for football boots when they take part in a charity football match next month, and are asking as many of their colleagues to attend.

“It has been a few months now since we moved to the new localities of east and west and I wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on the many changes that have taken place.”