South East Coast Ambulance
@SECAmbulance
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We provide emergency healthcare across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and parts of NE Hants. We also provide the NHS 111 service across the majority of Kent and Sussex.
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Six of our ambulances were deliberately damaged overnight in Kent. Beyond disappointed that anyone would do this ever, let alone now when our staff are under so much pressure. Well done to Fleet & Make Ready teams for getting these back on the road asap 1/2
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Tributes paid to Alice Clark, the paramedic who tragically died following a collision on the A21 yesterday
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Today we remember Paramedic Alice Clark who tragically died a year ago today.
Our thoughts remain with her family and friends.
Gone but never forgotten… 💚
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Today we are sharing a message from Alice Clark's family who wanted to thank all those who have shared messages of support and condolence at this difficult time. 💚
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It is with huge sadness that we confirm the death of a paramedic involved in a collision on the A21, near Tonbridge, Kent, yesterday evening (5 January 2022). A full statement is available here:
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Like many of you, we were shocked to hear about the damage to the defib at
#BuxtedFC
over the weekend. To ensure the community don't suffer, we've today loaned the club a defib for as long as it's needed
#communityresilience
#defibrillator
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Today 150 colleagues from
#SECAmb
@Ldn_Ambulance
@airambulancekss
&
@kentfirerescue
joined family & friends to bid farewell to Paramedic Alice Clark.
Farewell Alice, your shift is done – stand down 💚
Photos: Eddie Mitchell
@brightonsnapper
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Big congratulations to Dave & Steve, celebrating 33 years' service each today! Loving the 'then' & 'now' photos....
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It's been disappointing & upsetting to see some of the comments made by a small number of people following our post yesterday 😞
ALL of our staff have our full support to be themselves & we will not tolerate abuse in any form, including derogatory comments
#Workwithoutfear
Steph is one of our paramedics who, because of being her true self, has experienced abuse from the very people she has gone to help.
We're very proud of Steph but she, and all ambulance staff across the country,
deserve to
#WorkWithoutFear
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In a UK first, how we manage spinal injuries is changing thanks to CCP Alan Cowley’s research. We will be using approaches such as encouraging patients not to move their neck or head blocks to immobilise the neck instead of semi-ridged neck collars.
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Yesterday we joined with her family & colleagues from
@kent_police
@kentfirerescue
@Ldn_Ambulance
&
@airambulancekss
to remember Alice & lay flowers at the scene 💚
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Amb Tech Charlotte Speers, with 5yo Lila Page whose life she helped to save, were special guests of HRH The Duke of Cambridge at a reception held in London to mark
#999Day
. Charlotte, with
@kentfirerescue
Marc & James, acted quickly last March when Lila collapsed
@KensingtonRoyal
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We’re delighted that our Medical Director, Dr Fionna Moore, has been named in the
#QueensBirthdayHonours
to receive a Queen’s Ambulance Service Medal. Many congratulations Fionna. Extremely well deserved. Read more here:
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Today we're saying farewell to Caroline Flack who sadly lost her long battle with cancer recently. An ambulance technician for 25 years, Caroline spent her career in the Eastbourne area before retiring last summer. She was much loved & is missed deeply by her colleagues & friends
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Colleagues paid their respects to Peter Hart at Redhill Ambulance Station this afternoon. Our thoughts are with Peter's family, friends and all who knew him. Thank you for a career dedicated to helping others.
Tributes to an NHS hero... 💚
Paramedic Peter Hart was laid to rest today, after his friends and colleagues lined the streets to applaud him...
Peter died on his 52nd birthday after contracting Coronavirus.
@SECAmbulance
@bbcsoutheast
@sashnhs
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SECAmb Medical Director, Dr Fionna Moore, has announced that she will stand down in January 2023 after 50 years’ NHS service 👇
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Thanks to our staff who kindly volunteered as we do our bit to support the response to Covid-19 in our Capital by providing mutual aid and sending 10 ambulances and crews to help our colleagues
@Ldn_Ambulance
.
#StayAtHomeSaveLives
#nhs
#workingtogether
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Extremely saddened to hear of the tragic death of a colleague from
@OFFICIALWMAS
whilst responding to a 999 call this morning. Sending thoughts & prayers from everyone at
#SECAmb
to all those affected
#greenfamily
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#Woking
Our clinicians have treated six children on scene for potentially serious injuries. Along with our colleagues
@airambulancekss
, our crews are transporting the patients to major trauma centres in London
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Steph is one of our paramedics who, because of being her true self, has experienced abuse from the very people she has gone to help.
We're very proud of Steph but she, and all ambulance staff across the country,
deserve to
#WorkWithoutFear
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Our crews, who are helping our colleagues
@Ldn_Ambulance
, would like to say a massive thanks to everyone who has been following the government's advice to stay at home and it also gave us a chance to take a once-in-a-lifetime photo!
#StayAtHomeSaveLives
#teamsecamb
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A big well done to all of our staff who have coped with some dreadful weather & road conditions over the weekend thanks to
#StormDennis
! Great job everyone!
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We would like to thank everyone for their support following the tragic death of paramedic Alice Clark and for all those injured in last week's RTC. The messages from across the globe have been truly overwhelming.
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Our next award recognises the very special work undertaken by Critical Care Paramedic Jim Walmsley, who worked tirelessly during the early days of the pandemic to improve the care we could give to end of life patients. Well done Jim!
#SECAmbStars21
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So proud to see (and hear!) such amazing support for our fantastic staff & the whole of the NHS tonight across our patch!
#ClapForCarers
#TeamSECAmb
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Very disappointed and saddened to hear that 5 staff vehicles and 1 single response car had their tyres slashed on separate occasions at Worthing Ambulance Station this week. Not something anyone ever wants to discover let alone at the end of a 12hour shift. Pls call 101 with info
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We've now extended our vaccination programme to include our fab Fire co-responders & our great Police partners who are part of the
#JointResponseUnit
. Spencer
@sussex_police
is part of the
#BrightonJRU
& was delighted to have his vaccine today!
#TeamSECAmb
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And our final award this evening goes to our Employee of the Year - Consultant Midwife Dawn Kerslake - whose expert knowledge & support has truly empowered our clinicians in their care of maternity patients! Brilliant work Dawn!
#SECAmbStars21
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SECAmb is delighted to announce that Dr Fionna Moore is to take up the substantive role of Executive Medical Director.
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Congratulations to our 28 Newly Qualified Paramedics who'll be hitting the road this week after completing their Transition to Practice course. Well done to everybody & welcome to Team SECAmb! 💚 🚑 👏
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Most of our staff are now stood down from the earlier incident at
#Woking
Park, although it remains a busy Saturday night for us across Kent, Surrey & Sussex! V proud, as always, of all our staff working hard tonight on the road, in EOCs & 111 & in vital support services
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A much-respected paramedic who will be very much missed. Our thoughts are with Peter's family, friends and colleagues.
Remembering Peter Hart. Our thoughts are with Peter's family and friends.
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Today we say farewell to Dr Fionna Moore, as she steps down from her Medical Director role.
We're pleased that she'll be staying with SECAmb in a different role but is hard at it until the end, in a Board session!
Thank you, Fionna 💚
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Well done to all our staff and those working with the other emergency services responding to a difficult job at Shoreham air show.
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Today the Trust has received a CQC rating of Good. You can read more about this at our website
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Following yesterday RTC involving a coach on the M25 at Swanley, we triage, assessed, treated and took to various hospitals in the area a total of 49 patients. Great work by all our staff and emergency service partners.
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Thanks to Cuddles UK, our staff will now have special pocket blankets for babies who are born prematurely (under 20 weeks) and unable to be resuscitated. Named Lilly Pockets in honour of ECSW James Ingleton and his wife Sarah's daughter, who was born prematurely at 17 weeks.
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2/2 And this is in such contrast to the vast majority of the public who are being fantastically supportive of our staff
#TeamSECAmb
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It's going to be very hot over the next few days so think of our crews who may have to wear these PPE suits while resuscitating patients. Be sensible over the weekend: keep hydrated, stay out of the midday sun and only call us when it is a life-threatening emergency.
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Steph joined the Ambulance service over 20 years ago, breaking barriers as the UK's first openly trans woman working on frontline ambulances, 13 years ago.
#IWD2024
💜 1/2
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Thank you to every single member of staff who has worked (or is still working!) over this extremely busy Christmas. Please spare a thought for all our staff and volunteers as we continue to face this period of pressure and only dial 999 in a life-threatening or serious emergency.
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Our thoughts today are with all those involved & affected by incidents in London, inc our blue light colleagues
@Ldn_Ambulance
@metpoliceuk
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Congratulations to all the Newly Qualified Paramedics who successfully completed the latest Transition to Practice course last week!
It's great to have you as part of the team!
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Today we have started to vaccinate our staff with the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine. Paramedic & Team Leader Nicola Sykes was first to receive it. The vaccinator is our v own Dir of Nursing, Bethan Eaton-Haskins!
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Delighted our Medical Director, Dr Fionna Moore, was presented with her Queen's Ambulance Medal by HRH The Princess Royal at Windsor yesterday. Pictured with family afterwards here. Congratulations Fionna. Extremely deserved. Read more here:
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We're pleased a number of firefighters across our region will be available to further support us by driving ambulances in the coming days and weeks while pressure remains high. Read more here:
@EastSussexFRS
@WestSussexFire
@kentfirerescue
@SurreyFRS
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Thank you to all our staff and volunteers for their continued efforts as we face very high demand. Night shift crews will be starting soon and continuing the hard work their colleagues have put in throughout an extremely busy day.
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During June you'll see our staff wearing these fab
#rainbowepaulettes
to celebrate
@SECAmb_Pride
#PrideMonth
🌈🌈
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As we
#ClapForOurCarers
, tonight we will also remember a member of staff we have lost recently. Today, we paid our last respects to a paramedic, Rhod Prosser, who died of lung cancer, aged 27. Tonight we applaud you, Rhod! 💚💚💚
#secamb
#greenfamily
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A big blues and twos thanks to the ATS guys who came to our rescue over the weekend when six of our vehicles in Thanet had their tyres slashed. Replaced the tyres for free!
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From midnight tonight lots of clubs will open for the first time in many months. If you're planning on partying hard tonight, enjoy yourself but PLEASE go easy & look after yourself & your friends. We remain incredibly busy this evening so
#HelpUsHelpYou
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We're pleased our vehicles will once again carry poppies with 12 featuring this special larger design. Read more here:
#PoppyAppeal
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We're delighted to share that the first episode of Channel 5’s ‘999: Emergency Call Out’, which features the work of our Joint Response Unit (JRU), run with
@kent_police
, will be screened on 17th August!
Here's a short sneaky preview peek to whet your appetite!
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Merry Christmas from everyone at South East Coast Ambulance Service. Please take care today and look out for each other. Thank you to all our staff and volunteers who are working throughout the whole festive period.
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Pls use our services wisely today during the industrial action. Ambulances are still available to respond, although they will be prioritised for life-threatening calls.
Use , GP or local pharmacy for help with non-urgent concerns.
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PLEASE SHARE - Our amazing staff are working flat out in this heatwave. Here's how you can help them. Only calling us if your emergency is serious. If it isn't deemed serious, you can expect a long wait and even may be asked to make your own way to a medical facility. Thanks.
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Today is International Paramedics Day, where we celebrate the fantastic work that Paramedics do to care for patients in our communities.
We celebrate the amazing care that is achieved day in, day out by all our Paramedics.
#InternationalParamedicsDay
#IPD23
#WhatParamedicsDo
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Remembering our former colleagues, paramedics Tony & Mark and pilot Graham, who sadly lost their lives on this day in 1998 💚
@airambulancekss
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Great work
@Sam_Imber
!
"2.5hr transfer for a child who advised he was scared of ambulances. Crew mate & I decorated the truck with balloons from my box, set the IPAD up with Kids YouTube & got out the colouring books! End of the transfer he said it was the best amb journey ever!"
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It was with great sadness that we paid our last respects to a much-loved member of staff based in Chertsey, Sue Tugwell, earlier today. Paramedic and Operations Manager, Sue sadly died from cancer in March & our thoughts remain with her husband Paul & their family. 💚
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Following a suggestion from one of our fab staff, we'll soon be using these great sticky labels from
@stickylabelscom
when our staff are wearing PPE
#staffsuggestion
#TeamSECAmb
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Once again our thoughts are with our colleagues
@Ldn_Ambulance
dealing with tonight's incidents
#staysafe
#999Family
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Today we join many others as we mark the
#DayOfReflection
, the anniversary of the first national lockdown, & remember those who worked with us and those who had recently retired, who have died during the past year, whether COVID related or not. Never forgotten.💚
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Well done to Eilish, Duncan & Tim from our Worthing Operating Unit for assisting with an imminent birth last night. Another lovely, healthy baby brought into the world, Mum and Baby are doing well, great work
#TeamSECAmb
💚
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A big thank to our 900+ staff & volunteers who are working incredibly hard today, as well as those working over coming days. Here are some of our staff enjoying the festive season in the past & recently! Thanks also to our communities for the support you give us
Merry Christmas!
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During the pandemic we’ve enjoyed great mutual aid support from our Fire & Rescue colleagues. Big thanks to
@kentfirerescue
@SurreyFRS
@WestSussexFire
& the team from
@EastSussexFRS
who have been crewing ambs at Hastings for the past 2 months
#teamwork
#bluelightcrew
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Today his family said goodbye to Richard Osaji. Richard was a highly-respected colleague who passed away in January after contracting COVID. He'd worked at our 111 Centre at Ashford for more than five years. He was hugely valued & much respected by the team & is sorely missed.
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In
#SECAmb
we're fortunate to have more than 300 nurses working with us, including Hannah & Kim! Regardless of role, all of our nurses bring different clinical skills & experience, to help us provide the best possible care to our patients
#InternationalNursesDay2020
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Today
@SECAmb_Pride
unveiled this year's
#prideambulance
as we hosted the
@NatAmbLGBTUK
committee meeting at our HQ. Thanks to
@SecambUnison
and
@OptimaHealth
for their sponsorship and to local company, Chilli Graphics. Looking forward to joining the
@PrideBrighton
parade
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Starting our Trust Board meeting today with a minute's silence to remember our lost colleague & friend, Paramedic Alice Clark
#RIPAlice
#NeverForgotten
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V proud that 3 of
#TeamSECAmb
are recognised in the NY Honours List. Dir of Operations Joe Garcia, Dir of Quality & Nursing Bethan Eaton Haskins & Amb Tech Peter Glover all receive MBEs for their service & commitment over many years
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Thanks Samantha! And well done to the crew involved (who hopefully will be 💤🛏️ now)!
#NightShift
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Remembering those who lost their lives at the crash at the Shoreham Air Show in 2015, all those from
#SECAmb
and the other emergency services who responded to the incident on the day and afterwards and everyone impacted by it 💚
#7yearson
#Shoreham
#notforgotten
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We are deeply saddened by these reports. Our thoughts are with the paramedic's family, friends, colleagues and everyone affected by this awful news 💚
The College is deeply saddened by reports that a NSW paramedic was stabbed multiple times in Campbelltown this morning. Our thoughts are with the paramedic and their family during this difficult time.
Source:
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We would like to wish our staff, volunteers and patients a very Happy and Safe Christmas! 🚑🎄
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Monday also saw Prof Chamberlain, the Father of the Paramedic Profession, re-united with Robin Friday. Robin is the last survivor of the original 6 ‘ambulance men’, selected for extra training by Prof Chamberlain & who responded to patients in Brighton in 1971 (1/2)
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SECAmb extends its heartfelt condolences to members of the Royal Family following the sad news this evening of the passing of Her Majesty The Queen
#HMTheQueen
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The attention our new wrapped vehicles have been getting is fantastic! It's great to be putting smiles on faces! 🌈🚑
#secambrainbows
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Thanks to our fab colleagues from
@WestSussexFire
for their help with our mobile vaccination centre. A great team effort!
Great work by
@crawleyfire
and
@WSFRS_TRU
supporting
@SECAmbulance
colleagues with their staff vaccination centre
@WestSussexFire
@Rustinurse
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Thank you to all our teams and partners who responded to the significant multi-vehicle RTC on the M23 last night. Our thoughts are with all involved. The major incident saw us take six patients to hospital and treat a further 34 for minor injuries.
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Thank you to all our staff both in control and out on the road who are working flat out to get people the help they need as quickly as possible while we experience very high demand for our service.
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It's the first
#999day
today. Thank you to all our staff and volunteers for their dedication and professionalism. Thank you also to all our 999 colleagues and not forgetting the support provided by families and friends.
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Happy New Year to all our staff, volunteers and patients!
We wish you all a safe and happy 2021.
#HappyNewYear2021
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Today we pay our respects to David Evans from our Clinical Education Department, who passed away in January after becoming ill with coronavirus & whose funeral takes place today. David's ambulance career spanned more than 20 years & he will be sorely missed at SECAmb
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Remembering 21 years ago. Thoughts with our collegues at
@airambulancekss
and everyone affected by this tragedy
“Some people spend their whole lives wondering if they made a difference.
Some don’t have that problem”
21 Years Ago, remember the flight crew from the Kent Air Ambulance.
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A really big thank you to our
@kent_police
colleagues from Tonbridge Police Station for their thoughtful & really kind gifts to the team at Paddock Wood.
Definitely feeling the
#bluelightfamily
love! 💚 💙🚑 🚓
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Today is the three year anniversary of the
#Shoreham
air crash. Our thoughts remain with the families & friends of those who lost their lives and all those who continue to be affected. We remain immensely proud of how our staff responded on the day & afterwards
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Thanks to all our staff, volunteers and partners who worked throughout New Year and the festive period. Thank you also to everyone for their messages of support. Read more here:
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Delighted & v proud that Paramedic Jenna is attending the Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul's today on behalf of all of her
#SECAmb
colleagues & volunteers, who have & continue to give their all during the pandemic
#NHS73
#NHSBirthday
#ThankYouNHS
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Our staff & volunteers will be laying wreaths at Remembrance events across our region today. Thank you to everyone taking part. We're also supporting
#ThePoppyAppeal
on our vehicles this year
#Remembrance2018
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We're delighted to have welcomed our first cohort of 17 SECAmb Student Paramedics onto the new BSc (Hons) Paramedic Science programme at our Haywards Heath Education Centre, in assoc. with
@CumbriaUni
In just two years time they'll be qualified! And they work while they learn!
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We are extremely busy today and as always prioritising life-threatening and serious calls. Please only dial 999 in these circumstances and spare a thought for our staff who are working flat out to reach patients as quickly as possible.
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Thanks to all
@BritishRedCross
volunteers at Shoreham for their efforts during Saturday's aircrash. Great work in difficult circumstances
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As we applaud all our NHS colleagues, carers and key workers tonight, we will be saying thanks to a recently retired member of staff, Ricky Powell, who died of a heart attack. We paid our last respects to Ricky yesterday. Rick tonight, we applaud you. 💚
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Honouring our NHS colleagues who have lost their lives in this Covid-19 outbreak during the minute silence at 11am today.
#StayAtHomeSaveLives
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Yesterday was one of the busiest days of the year! At times we were receiving 4 or even 5 999 calls a minute! We're sorry to anyone who waited a long time for a response - our staff are working flat out to get to people asap but some areas remains extremely busy
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