Everyone has them in their home, but button batteries (also known as coin or lithium batteries), can cause serious harm and death if they are ingested.
In light of this week's case of a healthcare-worker being treated in Glasgow after contracting Ebola, please take the time to look again at the information published on the relevant personal protective equipment (PPE).
The health care referral team (HCRT) dispatch desks are now operational in all three EOCs; to deploy resources to urgent calls and all private and voluntary services.
Following the successful campaign launch earlier this year, please remember how Channel 202 can help with critically injured patients during the festive period and beyond.
The ‘living wage’ is an increase in the minimum wage, which helps people afford the basic living costs in the UK – and the Trust has been working alongside UNISON to bring this in for our staff in the new year.
Thanks to a training initiative between South Woodham Ferrers community first responder (CFR) group and local health visitors, the parents of a two-year-old child who had a febrile convulsion knew exactly what to do.
As part of our Wise Up for Winter campaign, we tweeted from Norwich EOC last Thursday, to show our followers the types of calls we get and how we deal with them.
As part of the Wise up for Winter campaign, a video with Senior Specialist Operations Manager Steven Moore was published at the weekend about how the service copes with seasonal demand.
The Board has confirmed that it will look to start a recruitment process for a new Chief Executive in 2015, although at this stage no date for this has been agreed.
We have had several queries from employees regarding the proposed review of administrative posts within the organisation and what is currently happening, and would like to give you an update.
A patient in Essex was taken seriously unwell last month after being bitten by a False Widow spider in their home, and a nest was later found in the property.
A peer-reviewed article, partly written by Research Paramedic Larissa Prothero and Elderly Care Lead Phil Lumbard, has just been published in the Emergency Medical Journal.
By July 2015, every clinician in England and Wales will have to maintain an airway management skills log, as a result of a coroner’s preventing further deaths report.
Last week the Trust’s Twitter account came eighth in the top 50 of NHS accounts nationally and in the top four of ambulance services, in the first comprehensive analysis of social media use in the NHS.
Following a rigorous selection process, five dispatchers have completed an initial course in incident command management and have been promoted to incident command desk supervisors.
Crews and officers were honoured on Friday evening (5th December) by the Eastern Daily Press (EDP) for our response to the floods in Norfolk a year ago.
Mind has invited emergency services personnel to a focus group in Cambridgeshire next week to help shape a national programme of mental health and wellbeing support.
This week Trust staff joined colleagues from police, fire, local authorities, drug and alcohol support services from across Bedfordshire and Luton to sign the mental health crisis care concordat.
A huge thank you to everyone who has taken part in the annual staff survey this year – more than 1,000 of you have given your views, which is 27% of our total staff number.
When a member of staff leaves the Trust, their line manager has a responsibility to make sure all relevant checks are completed and the relevant documents sent to HR.
Over the past couple of months there has been an increase in incidents of trolleys falling off the tail lifts on ambulances when it is in the raised position.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is changing the way it regulates, inspects and rates ambulance, dental and independent acute healthcare services – and they want to know what you think of their plans.
More than 50 paramedics completed their training on how to use the Trust’s new trauma equipment in Luton last week, the first frontline staff in the service to do so.
As you’ll no doubt have seen in the media this week, Chancellor George Osborne has announced that he will put an extra £2.2 billion into the NHS in 2015/16 - of which £1.95 will be allocated to England.
A network of lifesavers in Norfolk has been boosted after the latest volunteers completed their training to enable them to attend emergencies in their communities.
"As part of our determination to make the NHS the safest and most transparent healthcare system in the world, I want to tell you about two new important regulations that came into force yesterday."
Grampian Health Board has been ordered by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) to take action to ensure its patients information is better protected, following six data breaches within a thirteenth month period.
An external audit of commercial services at the Trust has found all aspects to be “very satisfactory” and has been given a positive certification as a result.
