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April is Stress Awareness Month. Here are a few more personal changes you can make to help reduce stress.

We want this to be a strategy that you feel creates a future organisation that looks after you and your welfare while delivering great patient service.

Please note that Insight, our risk management software (often referred to as 4Risk), will be offline from 19:00 on Tuesday, 3rd May.

We are looking for 20-30 Frontline staff, of any clinical grade, to participate in this piece of research sponsored by University of Leeds.

The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives and College of Paramedics would like to invite all ambulance service staff to attend this session to increase awareness of how a disability can impact at an individual level and how disability diversity benefits an organisation.

The last two years has brought unprecedented challenges to every aspect of our work in health, social care and the not-for-profit sector. Despite the challenges, safeguarding has remained active and a necessary process.

It is payday week and that means it is time to check the version of iOS and Siren Nova on your iPad. We’ve upped the stakes this month for Run DMC (Device Monthly Check) with a raffle prize draw.

This week's We Are EEAST Briefing and Executive Q&A, led by Chief Operating Officer Marcus Bailey, will take place on Thursday afternoon.

The latest bulletin includes information on drugs bag checks, staff wellbeing and the importance of reporting incidents, and also introduces the new #WorkWithoutFear campaign.

The Charitable Funds Committee has made it easier for stations to access funds.

Whether exploring change as a choice, measuring the impact or initiating change in response to a recognised risk, the process and the solution is usually more complex than it initially appears.

Each episode, we talk to a workstream lead from the Fit for the Future improvement plan to demonstrate what achievements have taken place and how this will help to develop our Trust for the future.

April has seen the Norfolk Community First Responder (CFR) team take to the road to commence a ‘’recruitment roadshow’’.

Any individuals with Line management or supervisory responsibilities are invited to take part in the next series of Manager’s Passport Training modules.

April is Stress Awareness Month. Here are a few suggestions to alleviate stress.

New guidance to support the development of pre-registration operational staff with ambitions for role progression.

Our plans to begin using Siren Notification Board (SNB) at the out of area hospitals that are served by the Trust are progressing.

Rescue Fit are holding a 5k fun run in Harlow in aid of Ukranian Relief.

The East of England Ambulance Service Charity has seen an increase in staff and volunteers, signing up for some inspiring challenges to raise money and awareness for the Charity.

The Blue Light Mental Health at Work Commitment is a collective movement across all emergency services and throughout the UK.

Tern TV is filming a new documentary series of Emergency Helicopter Medics, following the work of the Essex and Herts Air Ambulance.

A recording of the latest We Are EEAST Briefing and Exec Q&A is now available.

The latest edition of Take 5 to Prepare is now available.

The Trust Multi-Faith Network are pleased to share information about Easter, from Trust members of the Christian Ambulance Association.

The Quality Improvement & Professional Standards team are pleased to announce further dates for the upcoming QSIR V Programme.

April is Stress Awareness Month

The amount that you pay into the NHS Pension Scheme has to be re-assessed on the 1st April each year.

Does your default role need changing on Siren? How about finding out how to request a call sign that isn’t on the list?

Unfortunately, during the handover of services, our previous contractor failed to make some of their final collections from sites.

The Reasonable Adjustment Survey is open until Friday 22nd April.

This week's We Are EEAST Briefing and Executive Q&A, led by our Chief Executive Tom Abell, will take place on Thursday afternoon at 4pm.

The Trusts DATIX Hosting provider will be carrying out maintenance work on the DATIX servers today (Wednesday) between 18:00 and 19:00.

Mask wearing on Trust sites and PPE during patient care.

A new Paramedic Wellness Programme by the College of Paramedics has launched.

The latest NHS National Quarterly Pulse Survey is out today (Monday 11th April).

Everyone can play a crucial role in helping to defend the Trust from cyber-attacks of different kinds including phishing and ransomware.

Our Monthly Performance Dashboard, with data from March, is now available.

We are running a series of in-person ePCR events across the Trust in April and May.

It has been identified that the JRCALC diazepam guideline for adults <70yrs can be read ambiguously in emergency situations.

It is best practice for all consenting patients over 16yrs (except pregnant patients) to have a NEWS2 documented for at least one set of observations.

EEAST is helping the NHS donate a fleet of ambulances to provide urgent care for those injured by Russian attacks in Ukraine.

The next round of Local Manager's Briefings will take place on Thursday at 4pm.

With COVID-19 infection rates so high currently, it is vitally important that we stick to the new guidelines of testing twice weekly using Lateral Flow Tests (LFTs).

World Health Day falls on Thursday 7th April, and this year’s theme is “Our planet, our health”.

We have repeatedly said that we will not tolerate bullying and harassment of any kind, and this includes the inappropriate use of social media.

The funeral of Rod Taylor, a retired Leading Operations Manager in East and North Herts, will take place at Cam Valley Crematorium at 10am on Friday 8th April 2022.

This year’s Essex and Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) Aeromedical conference, which is open to all staff and free to attend, will be held at the Ford Dunton Technical Centre on Wednesday 15th June 2022.

A recording of the latest We Are EEAST Briefing and Executive Q&A is now available.

Please be advised that we have postponed the Datix upgrade that had been scheduled to take place tomorrow 05/04/2022 due to the CQC inspection.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have informed us they are formally starting our core inspection tomorrow (5th April 2022).

April is Stress Awareness Month

From the 1st April 2022, the requirements for testing of symptomatic NHS staff and staff contacts of Covid-19 positive cases have changed.

Are you passionate about the safeguarding of our patients and colleagues? Do you believe you have the skills and experience to recognise, and report concerns around safeguarding issues?

There have been changes to EEAST's waste management provides. Find out what's changed and how it might affect you and your team.