South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is part of the National Health Service (NHS). It was formed in 2006 following the merger of the three former ambulance trusts in Kent, Surrey and Sussex and became a Foundation Trust on 1 March 2011.
We have 3,661 staff that operate across the geographically diverse area of 3,600 square miles of Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex, Kent, Surrey, and North East Hampshire, covering densely populated urban areas, sparsely populated rural areas and some of the busiest stretches of motorway in the country.
As a Trust, we:
- Receive and respond to 999 calls from members of the public
- Respond to urgent calls from healthcare professionals e.g. GPs
- Provide non-emergency patient transport services in Surrey & Sussex
- Receive and respond to 111 calls from the public
We also work closely with our main partners in the region - 22 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), 12 acute hospital trusts and four mental health and specialist trusts within the NHS, the Kent, Sussex & Surrey Air Ambulance and our “blue light partners” – three police forces, four Fire & Rescue Services and the coastguard.
We deliver our services from sites that include:
- One main Headquarters.
- Two regional offices.
- Three Emergency Operations Centre (EOC).
- Two 111 Contact Centres.
- Five Make Ready Centres.
- 46 Ambulance Stations.
- 51 Ambulance Community Response Posts.
- Two Hazardous Area Response (HART) centres.
We utilise a fleet of 704 vehicles that include A&E ambulances, response cars, 4x4 vehicles, Patient Transport Service (PTS) vehicles, complex needs ambulances, neo-natal ambulances, Hazardous Area Response Team (HART) vehicles, Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear (CBRN) incident vehicles and support vehicles.
Webpage: http://www.secamb.nhs.uk/