After months of hard work, I am delighted to announce that today we have furthered our collaboration with
@Bedsfire
with the launch of a Technical Support Unit to aide our response to Complex/Bariatric patients within Bedfordshire .
@EastEnglandAmb
@EEAST_SimonKing
Called to assist a crew at a C1 call this morning and it was great to see this on the side of the truck!
Happy a great bank holiday! 🇬🇧
@EastEnglandAmb
#JubileeWeekend
Today we have welcomed additional CFRs to
@EastEnglandAmb
who will soon be responding to patients across Beds and Herts thank you for your support!!
#oneteam
@EEAST_CFRS
Out with the old and in with the new!!
Huge thanks to the team at
@EEAST_opSupport
for sorting out x2 new vans to support our Military Co- responder teams they love them!
Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of attending
@BedsFire
awards night and it was a great opportunity to showcase this stunning new vehicle that will soon be on the roads responding to calls!
We can’t wait to see how it performs in the coming weeks!🚑🚒🔌🍃
Great to visit our Potton co- responder team from
@BedsFire
and update them on 2 successful survival to discharge outcomes following out of hospital cardiac arrests that they arrived first on!🚑🚒
#oneteam
@EastEnglandAmb
Huge thanks to our Ops Support team for the great work they have done on our latest addition to our collaboration fleet! 🍃⚡️
@EastEnglandAmb
@NHSEngland
This week on a rather wet/windy day
@EastEnglandAmb
took delivery of a new RRV from
@Smarterm3tering
and we are so grateful for your support towards our Co-Responder schemes!
The car completed it’s first shift last night attending multiple C1 calls🚑🚨 1/2
Last night I had the privilege of presenting a successful survival to discharge letter to our Fire Co-responder team based in Potton.
This positive outcome was thanks to effective dispatch from
@EEAST_EOCs
and
@Beds_FireCtrl
and great team work form
@EastEnglandAmb
+
@BedsFire
As
#VolunteersWeek2022
comes to a close it was an absolute pleasure to join 2 of our iconic CFRs receiving
#Jubilee
medals yesterday at our Trust HQ!
A staggering 30 years worth of service from this husband and wife team! 🎉🏅
@EastEnglandAmb
@EEAST_CFRS
Great to catch up with our Co- response team based at
@RAF_Marham
this weekend.Thanks to
@PassarelliKatie
for coming along to deliver some ILS updates and EPCR training for the team.
Last month the team logged 27 shifts to support
@EastEnglandAmb
and responded to over 170 calls!
Great that our Military co-response teams are now being included in our EPCR program! 👨💻🥳
Thanks to
@EEAST_ACL
and
@PassarelliKatie
for supporting with the initial training for our first team
@RAF_Henlow
Proud moment today as the first of our new CWO teams went live across Essex to support with additional response capacity over winter!
Multiple calls attend already with fire prevention and protection advice also being undertaken along the way! 🚑🚒💪
#collaboration
Fantastic day at
@UniofSuffolk
with colleagues discussing
@EastEnglandAmb
new clinical strategy which will make sure we are able to provide the right care and support for our patients and people moving forward!Lots of really positive developments in the pipeline!
#watchthisspace
👀
Thank you
@BedsFire
for your amazing collaborative working providing
@EastEnglandAmb
with blue light drivers! It’s been a challenging week/project to lead but will allow us to continue provision of outstanding care across Bedfordshire!
#StayHome
#Covid19
Great day spent in Liverpool with colleagues from
@BedsFire
and representatives from
@NFCC_FireChiefs
and
@ukhomeoffice
to discuss FRS support during the height of the C19 response along with exploring the ongoing benefits seen by our collaborative working!
Really interesting call this morning with
@jasonkillens
and
@mangarlnt
discussing how collaboration can reduce winter pressures on ambulance services during times of increased demand.
@EastEnglandAmb
Delighted that
@EastEnglandAmb
will be trialling electric RRVs following a successful bid with
@NHSEngland
- helping us understand how we achieve net zero by 2045.
Can't wait to see them in action, and👏to our fleet team who are making this happen.
Great to visit Rachel in the Beds unscheduled care hub and discuss how we can work together to improve the care that we provide via enhanced integration and shared clinical decision making! 🚑🏥
@EastEnglandAmb
@BLMKHealthCare
Utterly humbled by our co-responder volunteers with over 2000 successful callouts in the past 24 months in support of the NHS front-line – truly remarkable. Well done to you all.
It was nice to be able to get out of the office this afternoon and support with some clinical leadership along side teams from
@EastEnglandAmb
and
@BedsFire
Fantastic teamwork shown by all 🚑🚒
Late to the party around 2021 tweets due to being on call for the past few days but what a year 2021 was our for our CFR and regional Co-responder teams supporting
@EastEnglandAmb
CFRs across Beds/Herts respond to over 5000 calls which is up a 1000 on the year before📈💪
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Today across Bedfordshire we launch our new co-response scheme. Members of Beds Fire and Rescue will respond to falls patients providing them with a prompt response and appropriate care and assessment. 🚨🚑🚒
@EastEnglandAmb
@BedsFire
@EEAST_GMorgan
Really proud of the fantastic additional cover provided yesterday by our military response teams!Who stepped up once again to support
@EastEnglandAmb
during an increase in deemed!
4 additional frontline resources provided to support frontline ops within Bedfordshire thank you!🙌
Reflecting on 2020 I am just wanted to pass my thanks onto the staff and leaders at
@BedsFire
.
Our falls team have had expanded We have launched a specialist bariatric unit and also brought fire stations online to support with medical response what a year!
Massive thanks to
@EEAST_BHawkins
for giving up his time yesterday to help support a new wave of recruitment to our Community Response Desk in Bedford AOC.
Some great candidates who will soon join the team as volunteer dispatchers!
@EastEnglandAmb
@EEAST_EOCs
Great day at
@NewmarketRace
yesterday for the Can Do Health Expo facilitated by
@SNEE_ICS
Lots of networking done along with a high level interest around our EV fleet.Big thanks to the
@EEAST_opSupport
team to help to get the vehicle in the right place for its official launch!
Massive thank you to
@EEAST_opSupport
for sorting a permanent fleet solution for our
@RAF_Henlow
Co-Responder team!
The team will be out over the next few days supporting frontline ops across Beds and Herts! 🪖🚑
@EastEnglandAmb
Fantastic opportunity to meet our military co response team from RAF Marham last week and even caught a glimpse of the new F35 lightning coming into land! 🙌
@EastEnglandAmb
@EEAST_Henlow
Massive thank you to
@EEAST_Henlow
for everything you have done and continue to do over this challenging period.
Gareth truly is a credit to
@EastEnglandAmb
and leads a fantastic team of military co-responders to support frontline service delivery!🪖🚨🚑🙌
Today we wanted to give a shout out to Gareth Jones
@EEast_Henlow
who has been a CFR for over 10 years. During the pandemic he was instrumental in running an upskill for all team members to support Op RESCRIPT in response to a MACA request. Thanks
@batchelorgareth
for nominating!
We are so grateful for the support that
@Smarterm3tering
and
@_Tom_A_Ward
have provided to our Co- Response team at
@RAF_Henlow
A first step in what is set to be a great partnership! 💪🚨
Last month, we announced that Smarter Metering Services Limited and its sister company Gas Emergency UK Limited has donated a fully operational RRV to the RAF Henlow military co-responders who support EEAST.
Did you miss it? Read it again at
#WeAreEEAST
Another Fire Station from
@BedsFire
has today gone live with Emergency Medical Responding to support
@EastEnglandAmb
🚨
This partnership will allow for the right care to be delivered in a timely manner in turn improving patient care and experience! 💪🚒🚑
#teamwork
#OneTeam
Productive afternoon yesterday spent visiting colleagues from
@Ldn_Ambulance
with the
@BHECCS
team around how we can innovate to provide better patient care when working in partnership.
Cold and wet clinical shift today but great to see first hand the outstanding support and additional pathways our new Unscheduled Care Hubs can offer to our frontline crews! 👏🚑
#integration
@jojo_fletcher1
A fantastic exercise and a great opportunity for our Co-responders to use the
@jesip999
principles!🚑🚒🚓
@FF_LiamSmith
thank you for organising this event! 💪
This took a lot of organising and prep but wow! A really good tri-service exercise in
#LeightonBuzzard
yesterday evening. Now let’s start planning the next one! Thanks again
@bedspolice
@EastEnglandAmb
Today was another milestone in our collaboration with
@BedsFire
!
Another fire station will provide emergency medical response to support
@EastEnglandAmb
within Bedfordshire 🚒🚑💪
Thanks to
@EEAST_BHawkins
and
@EEAST_Henlow
for your support in getting this up and running!
Busy day for our
@BedsFire
collaboration teams who have responded to x4 C1 calls along side
@EastEnglandAmb
crews.OurFRS falls team have have attended x2 lower acuity falls calls alongside
@NHS_ELFT
nurses have have successfully be able to leave patients safely in the community
First week in the new job completed!!✅😀🎉
Thank you all for the support and makings me feel welcome in the team.
Really looking forward to meeting some of our amazing volunteers over the next week at engagement events around the region celebrating volunteers week 🎉🚑
Great to catch up with our team over at RAF Marham last night.
Great discussions about co- response progression within
@EastEnglandAmb
and how the teams can provide additional support over the winter period. 🥶❄️
Great to drop in and meet some of the team from
@cambsfrs
and discuss our upcoming collaborative projects!🚒🚑
Massive thanks to
@EEAST_QI
for also coming along and for the support from
@EEAST_DLOSC
Merry Christmas to all of our CFRs 🎄🎅🏻
Thank you for all of your support and care you have provided in your local community’s this year!!
@EEAST_CFRS
@EastEnglandAmb
Merry Christmas and thank you to all our CFRs for the many hours you have committed as volunteers for
@EastEnglandAmb
this year. On our map you can see those available tonight, plus a guest call sign coming in from the south, seems to be looking for somewhere to stop later?🎅
A massive shout out to CFR Alan who is currently our only active responder, due to the rest of the team having to stand down for various Covid 19 reasons. Give him a wave if you see him.
Volunteers make up a large proportion of the
@EastEnglandAmb
workforce and come from so many different backgrounds but all have the same common goal to improve care for our patients across the region!
Thank you for what you all do!! 💚🙌
#InternationalVolunteerDay
#teamwork
This
#InternationalVolunteersDay
we want to recognise all the volunteers that offer their time to work for and with EEAST 💚
We have a message from Tom Abell, Chief Executive for all of our volunteers...
#WeAreEEAST
Yesterday was the first step in building our new integrated community based teams that will provide additional response/ prevention capacity over the coming months.🚒🚑🚨
Teams will attend C1 calls along with falls and lower acuity incidents such as welfare alarm activations.
What says collaboration better than matching merch!🚒🚑Pleasure to be with
@CFORickHylton
@ECFRS
today for at training for the new CWO role to offer a falls response &fire prevention work in 1 role-exciting 12 months coming up evaluating this pilot!
@EastEnglandAmb
@EeastTbarker
What a day!!🙌🚨
Thank you to everyone who made today happen it was great to see so many people networking face to face in the sun!
Huge well done to
@EEAST_BHawkins
for pulling the day together and thank you to our partners from
@BHECCS
@BedsFire
@EEAST_HART
@EEAST_Henlow
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Earlier this week I joined one of our Military Co-Responder teams for a few hours to support with a frontline service delivery.
It was also a pleasure to have
@StnCdrHonington
ride with us and understand more about this vital role.🪖🚑🚨
@EastEnglandAmb
Out with the
@RAFHonington
Co-Responders last night and we were actually called to a job in support of the
@RAF_Henlow
team. Superb group of brilliant volunteers supporting our
@NHSEnglandLDN
- helping people in their hour of need! Proud of your selfless service!
Congratulations to
@BedsFire
!!🙌🏆
Your support to us here at
@EastEnglandAmb
over the past year and a half has been fantastic!
You really have stood by your core values and have dared to be different! 💪
#OneTeam
#Collaboration
This is great to see!!🥳🙌
Using initiatives such as the Community Response Desk in AOC allows for peer welfare support along with building a further understanding of our volunteers across the AOC!
@EEAST_BHawkins
thank you for all of your work to get this back up and running!!
Delighted to deliver this certificate to Jan this evening who’s just passed his community response desk assessment!
He’ll now be in the emergency control room volunteering, dispatching volunteers!
@EEAST_EOCs
@EastEnglandAmb
Thank you for everything you do and well done!
Community wellbeing officers from
@cambsfrs
are ready to help people who've fallen in their homes.
Freeing up ambulance crews to attend the most seriously ill people in
#Cambridgeshire
, helping
#TeamEEAST
to save lives.
Read the full story:
Amazing to see another fire station within Beds coming online to support the local community with medical and trauma responding.
Local collaboration between
@EastEnglandAmb
and
@BedsFire
continues to grow stronger💪🚑🚒