Earlier this year the Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Groups decided to award the Norfolk 111 contract to a different provider, and disappointingly our contract comes to an end next week (31st August).
Chief Executive Robert Morton will be visiting stations and offices over the coming weeks to meet and talk to staff; here you can see the planned visits for this week.
More than 200 people were given free blood pressure checks in King’s Lynn earlier this month, as part of a campaign to ease pressure on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s A&E.
It is the call that no one wants to make for a loved one. But when Barry Salisbury collapsed at home on 9th April after complaining of chest pain, his wife Tracey knew something was seriously wrong.
Senior Paramedic Adrian Sampson from Colchester station was the recent winner of the London Ambulance Service Open Golf Competition at Bushey Hall Golf Club.
"We’ve been out and about again this week as our clinical visits have gotten underway; we’ll be making our way around the entire patch over the next few months to talk to you about what we’re focusing on clinically this year, and listening to what you have to say about it."
It’s a familiar scenario; at the start of every shift, you check your vehicle to make sure you have all the equipment, medicine and drugs you might need for the day ahead. But what if you find drugs missing, broken or unusable?
Places are still available for the 2015 patient safety conference, which sees ambulance staff from across the country come together to talk clinical practice.
More than 130 ambulance staff took part in this year's Brighton Pride march, the biggest turn out to date, to show their support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.
Last Friday dispatcher Lorna said so long to her locks in memory of her cousin Shiona, who lost her battle with cancer just a few months ago, and she’s managed to raise nearly £1,000 for Cancer Research UK in the process.
NHS Improving Quality, the University of Jönköping and Qulturum, have joined forces to create a new and innovative online course for those in healthcare.
Some improvements are currently being made to the Luton and Central Bedfordshire Mental Health Unit on Calnwood Road, and to wards at the Weller Wing, the mental health inpatient unit for Bedfordshire.
A few weeks ago we published an article about mandatory capnography, and a few of you got in touch to say that you weren’t sure how to grade the view of the cords in intubation. So we asked Chris Martin, the Trust’s Trauma Lead, to write a short refresher guide for you.
The Board has completed final interviews for the permanent CEO post and is in the process of agreeing final terms and arrangements with a chosen, preferred candidate. In the interim Director of Nursing and Clinical Quality Sandy Brown, who has been announced as deputy chief executive, will be covering the chief executive post.
It’s important to take care of your mental health; one in four people develop a mental health problem every year, and mind research shows emergency services personnel are even more likely to be affected.
Cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) affect more than 300 babies in the UK every year, but they can be some of the most distressing incidents that ambulance staff attend.
Since January 2014, the Trust has offered all employees and their family members free access to emotional and practical support through an employee assistance programme (EAP), Confidential Care.
Following the suspected case of Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Manchester this week, we would like to remind staff of the advice on recognition and treatment and infection prevention and control measures published in April.
