Archive

The Trust has commissioned our Insurance Consultants to review our approach to managing our fleet of vehicles and motor incidents.

EEAST is pleased to announce that the CPD programme will be funding over 80 places on Resuscitation Council e-ALS courses taking place over the next 7 months.

The Chelmsford wellbeing garden, which was gifted to the Ambulance Station as a space for colleagues to enjoy and unwind, was officially opened last week.

This week's We Are EEAST Briefing and Executive Q&A, a special session to mark Tom Abell's first year at EEAST, will take place on Thursday afternoon.

The East of England Leadership Academy would like to share details of the following leadership development offers.

The Trust has been alerted to some confirmed malicious phishing emails that were circulated to a large number of recipients yesterday, and possibly today.

As part of the Trust’s Retention programme, a new online version of the Exit Questionnaire is now available on EAST 24.

The Trust have revisited the guidance issued on 9th August, regarding a Trustwide ban on BBQs anywhere on our premises.

t’s payday week and that means it is time to Run DMC (device monthly check) and review the version of iOS and Siren Nova on your iPad.

Headspace, the meditation and mindfulness app, launches on 6th September.

Total Reward Statements have arrived and are now available online.

EEAST is looking for a Social Media/Relationship Building/External Events Officer for the Multi-Faith Network Group. Applications for the role close on 25th September.

This month, we talk to Emma De Carteret, Director of Corporate Affairs and Performance, and Simon Chase, Deputy Director of Clinical Quality.

We now have supplies of transparent face masks available for use with patients who are hearing impaired.

This workshop is for clinicians who want an overview of palliative and end of life care.

The NHS pay award, together with any associated back pay to 1st April 2022, will be made in September salary payments.

A recording of the latest We Are EEAST Briefing, led by Chief Executive Tom Abell, is now available.

Due to the Terms of Reference, we are required to re-advertise DSN officers every three years, and this time we are advertising for a Chair, Deputy Chair and Secretary.

As a Resilience and Specialist Operations Team we are looking for any Trust members of staff who would be prepared to volunteer to act as casualties for the 14 Marauding Terrorist Attack (MTA) exercises which will be taking place during September and October.

Please be aware that Informatics are currently extremely busy and requests for reports/information have a waiting time of approximately 4 weeks (minimum)

Please join us to honour and celebrate the life and achievements of North Bedfordshire paramedic Paul Hardwick on Monday 5th September 2022 at 2.30pm.

Following a rigorous recruitment process, the Trust has made several substantive appointments to the directorate of Strategy, Culture and Education.

All of us prefer to be spoken to in a way that is polite and respectful. It helps make the working day more pleasant. But did you know that being civil to each other can help save lives, too?

Woodgreen is offering ten EEAST staff the opportunity to spend time with them involved in activities at its centre in Godmanchester.

Due to matters which are out of our control, the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) team are operating using business continuity processes and are asking for ops support during this time.

Please be aware that from 1st September 2022, all pin codes for the Protégé access control system will be deactivated.

A standard loading list (SLL) for the VW transporter Leading Operations Managers (LOM) vehicles has been introduced across the Trust.

The Trust is benefitting from a change in Accident reporting procedures in the first year since it has been introduced.

Working within the NHS, we are required to operate impartially, honestly and with integrity and, to support this, we have a standards of business conduct policy.

Let’s make our Multi-Faith Network something that works for us.

There is still time to have your say with our Clinical Strategy Design Survey.

The patient experience team are pleased to announce the launch of the new Interim Patient and Public Involvement Strategy.

Crowdsourcing for Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) is live

The latest Take 5 Briefing examines the importance of the role of the Safety Advisory Group in advising event organisers on safety

There has been no significant rainfall since April in the region and, with high temperatures forecast into next week, there is a heightened risk of fires.

We are keen to get your feedback on our local Q&A's.

A recording of the most recent We Are EEAST Briefing and Executive Q&A, led by Chief Operating Officer Marcus Bailey, is now available.

DATIX will be unavailable between 18:00 and 00:00 on Wednesday 10th August as maintenance work is carried out on the servers that host the system.

The ambulance was responding to an incident just before 4pm on Saturday [6th August] when it was involved in a collision with a car and a van.

As part of the ongoing work to develop EEASTs new Clinical Strategy, the team have developed a survey for staff to complete to give their input in to its design.

The changes will apply to all members of the NHS Pension Scheme and will impact on the amount that members pay into the scheme each month.

We have been made aware that colleagues across the Trust have received emails from Kays Medical today

It's Cycle to Work Day and what better way to celebrate than by joining our Cycle to Work Scheme and saving money on your new bike.

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

Following results taken from a recent staff survey, EEAST has commissioned an Equality and Diversity consultant to do some work on our behalf.

We are pleased to be able to tell you that the Trust is now participating in the Calibre programme.

The University of Warwick, who are sponsoring the PARAMEDIC-3 trial, are holding a free Cardiac arrest webinar open to all clinicians.

The Fit for the Future theme Demonstrating Impact is focused on making sure the Trust uses data effectively to drive success and improvement at all levels.

An emergency responder with the East of England Ambulance Service (EEAST) was saved by his colleagues after he had a heart attack – while treating a woman in cardiac arrest.

The Demonstrating Impact workstream within Fit for the Future is now focused upon development of the Performance Framework for the organisation.

Due to a delay beyond EEASTs and Unions control, we have agreed to extend the current arrangements for SEMTs until 1.9.2022

The latest bulletin includes information about communicating well, paediatric illnesses, new safeguarding pathways and our QI team.

The trust would like to inform you of the sad passing of North Bedfordshire paramedic, Paul Hardwick.

As we head into the final summer months, we would like to remind staff on the guidance available for working alongside helicopters.

Please be aware that from 1st September 2022, all pin codes for the Protégé access control system will be deactivated.