The Trust’s latest group of student paramedics have passed their clinical training at Melbourn and are now moving on to the next stage on their pathway to become paramedics.
The Trust’s hazardous area response team (HART) joined firefighters from Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service last week for an exercise which simulated a collision between two tower cranes in Cambridge.
As mentioned in Anthony Marsh’s update last week, the Trust is in line for approximately £2million in additional funding to help us deal with winter seasonal pressures.
Applications are invited from all non-emergency patient transport staff within Cambridgeshire, Essex, and Suffolk to become a trainer for the annual PU (professional update) programme.
A coroner has issued a regulation 28 order, which is an action to help prevent deaths, for all staff at EEAST to wear the correct epaulettes with their skill level and the name of the Trust.
Following the review of the patient group direction for specialist paramedics, we have produced a local clinical guideline for the use of dexamethasone.
Last week’s step change week has been hailed as a success by locality directors and the chief executive, following lots of discussions with staff across the region on how working lives can be improved.
The Trust’s Need to Know site, the first-of-its-kind for ambulance staff, has won a national Award of Excellence from the Institute of Internal Communications.
If you have a fault with your IT or need to request a service from the IT team, please make sure you make your request via the service desk. This is so that jobs can be appropriately allocated and tracked to ensure that they are completed in a timely manner.
As part of our goal to reinvest funding into frontline staffing and make savings across the Trust, we would urge you to utilise bulk fuel at ambulance stations as much as possible.
Last week was ‘step change week’; when we really made a difference to support you and resolve issues, immediately, to improve your working lives and our service to patients.
In a report from Norfolk Public Health on the needs of dementia patients in the county, focus groups have described their “high satisfaction with the quality of service received” from the Trust.
In the past month there has been a marked increase in the number of sharps injuries reported, with incidents occurring due to drug ampoules shattering upon opening (with different drugs) and disposing of contaminated sharps.
The Trust’s sickness figures rose considerably in the last week of June, with 70% of staff who were on sick leave suffering with cold and flu symptoms or diarrhoea and vomiting.
One of Hollywood's best-known British exports is helping to ensure staff know which way to turn when they think their patient needs critical care support.
The College of Paramedics is inviting research abstracts until 1st August, as they make original research across paramedic practice the focus of their first ever national conference.
Have you ever wondered why we’re seeing an increase in the use of homemade explosives in the UK, or why the police need to gather forensics immediately at the scene of a crime?
The latest edition of the Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme (JESIP) newsletter has just been released and is available to view on the JESIP website.
Addison’s disease is a disease where the adrenal gland is damaged and so cannot respond to crisis situations where an increase in adrenaline or the steroid cortisol is required.
A survey carried out by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on the ‘hear and treat’ service of ambulance trusts in England has found that patients rated EEAST as 10/10 for the clarity of the instructions given for what to do if their situation changed.
The Trust’s cycle response unit (CRU) treated 15 patients in Cambridge during stage three of the Tour De France on Monday (7th July), as the world’s largest annual sporting event weaved its way through our region.
NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens has this week applauded “a major NHS success story” as new figures show about 600 more patients are surviving major trauma since the introduction of Major Trauma Networks in April 2012.
The latest issue of Pre-hospital Emergency Services Current Awareness Update, commissioned by the National Ambulance Research Steering Group, has been published on East24.
The Trust’s second Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme (JESIP) exercise is on 16th July in Stevenage and tactical and operational commanders are needed to take part.
We often talk about providing a service to patients of a ‘good clinical quality’ – but what does this actually mean? What does quality clinical care look like, how do we measure it, and what is our clinical focus over the next year?
If you have passed the pre-entry exam for the emergency care assistant (ECA) to technician course, you will be told if you have been allocated to a course in 2015/16 by 29th August.
Testing for the presence of protein in urine is part of the standard care for pregnant women with suspected or confirmed hypertension and pre-eclampsia.
An outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) was first reported in March 2014 in Guinea, and has since involved three countries in west Africa: Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) is investigating changes in how ambulance services are used, by seeking the views and experiences of people who have used 999 in the last three months.