Two new community first responder groups in Cardea, Peterborough and Harlow, Essex have started responding to patients, after going live at the beginning of the month.
Twelve ECAs have successfully completed their six-week course to become technicians and are now going back on the road to complete their skills portfolio.
The pilot of the NHS friends and family test has now gone live in Norfolk and Waveney for A&E and primary care, and in Suffolk for PTS, with 130,000 questionnaires sent to ambulance stations for staff to give to patients.
As you may be aware, the Government has announced new pension arrangements, which will be introduced into all public sector pension schemes, including the NHS scheme, from 1st April.
Staff at the Boots store in St Albans are holding a fundraising event this Friday and Saturday (28th and 29th November) to raise money for community first responders (CFRs).
The Trust’s latest trauma equipment will be coming soon to a station near you – with training being delivered locally in how to use the EZ-IO intraosseous infusion system, trauma packs, traction splints and a new glucose meter.
Following this morning’s industrial action, Chief Executive Anthony Marsh has thanked staff for their commitment to patient care during the four-hour strike and for helping us maintain a safe 999 service
The College of Paramedics has organised a continued professional development (CPD) event in December on the role of the paramedic and the relevant areas of law, including consent and capacity.
Last year the Trust, along with all other NHS ambulance services, took part in an exercise to find a common ambulance uniform that all ambulance staff nationally would wear.
Moving into winter can only mean one thing – it’s flu season. We encourage all our staff to get the flu vaccination every year, and we’re working hard to increase the uptake this winter.
Following feedback from staff, Terrafix has developed software to fix some of the issues with the new MDT regional model. This software update now needs to be accepted on each vehicle.
As you will be aware, a number of unions have indicated that they will be asking their members to strike from 7-11am on Monday (24th November), in response to the 1% non-consolidated pay rise.
Staff from Biggleswade station joined fire service colleagues and volunteers on Sunday (16th November 2014) to help pull a fire engine more than two miles to raise money for five charities.
Kate McGuire, an emergency operations administrator working in Hertfordshire, will have her first book published on 27th November and is donating the proceeds of the sales to the charity Forces Children’s Trust.
The Chairman of the NNOPF (North Norfolk Older People’s Forum) has written to the Trust Chief Executive to thank Stuart Pegg and Dale Meacham-Roberts, who attended a meeting on Monday (10th November) to explain how the ambulance service works.
The Trust’s latest emergency care assistant (ECA) to qualify as an emergency medical technician (EMT) through the Trust’s internal programme says he is now in a much better position to help patients.
Please ensure that medicine management at station level is robust and all out-of-date (OOD) drugs are returned to stations and never administered to a patient.
The health trade unions involved in a pay dispute with the Government, have announced that they will stage a further period of strike action on Monday 24 November from 7 - 11am.
David Sexby, the Trust’s Complex Patient Support Lead and Quality Improvement Fellow, has been shortlisted for an award for quality in education and training from Health Education East of England.
The Trust has paid tribute to service men and women in Remembrance Sunday commemorations across the region, including the parade in Chelmsford and the service in Luton.
Following a review by the Staff Partnership Forum, the casual worker arrangements for bank staff have been amended and new pay arrangements put in place.
Sign up to Safety is a national patient safety campaign announced by the Secretary of State for Health. The aim is for the NHS to reduce avoidable harm to patients by 50% in the next three years, which would save an estimated 6,000 lives.
Last month, the statutory Duty of Candour, which arose as one of the recommendations from the Francis Report, became a standard requirement for all NHS providers.
Earlier this year, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) published a report on the transition of children to adult health services, called ‘from the pond into the sea’.
The Trust maintains an active Twitter and Facebook presence to help us reach a different audience in a more immediate setting, and we invite support from staff to help us engage and educate the public in this way.
The research support services would like to thank all staff who have completed the impact diabetes survey, which aimed to find out more about the barriers and facilitators to diabetes referral pathways.
If you receive a reference request for a member of your staff, please ensure it is sent through to HR services to ensure we reply in the standard format.
Nearly 300 of you have completed your annual NHS staff survey since they were delivered to the Trust last week – a huge thank you to those who have completed it so far.
Hot on the heels of the external audit success of patient transport services (PTS) in Great Yarmouth and Waveney earlier this month, Essex has shared similar success and been awarded a positive certification.
Pete Simpson, a paramedic from Thorpe Marriott, Norfolk, has travelled to Sierra Leone to join the emergency aid mission fighting Ebola in west Africa.
