Sussex Ambulance Service
| Sussex Ambulance Service | |
|---|---|
| Created | 1 April 1995 |
| Disbanded | 1 July 2006 |
| Headquarters | Ambulance Headquarters, Southfields Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex BN21 1BZ |
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| Region served | Sussex |
Sussex Ambulance Service was the ambulance service for the County of Sussex in England from 1 April 1995[1] until 1 July 2006, when it was succeeded by a South East Coast Ambulance Service also covering Surrey and Kent.[2]
The trust provided ambulance services to a population of 1.5 million people[3] and was formed by the merger of the East and West Sussex ambulance services.[4] In 2001 plans were announced for a merger with Kent Ambulance Service, but these were shelved 6 months later after local resistance was encountered.[5]
A Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) began a clinical governance review of the trust in 2002.[6] The CHI report in 2003 criticised managerial staff at the trust for having inadequate systems to communicate with staff.[7] In 2005, it emerged that the trust’s despatch system had suffered computer failure four times over a period of a few months.[8]
The service started to use thrombolysis for suspected heart attacks in October 2003; by 2005 they had treated their 50th patient with this.[9]
The service had established a community first responder scheme by 2006.[10]
In 2000, the trust had an agreement with the Gambian Government to provide training to some African emergency service workers. Over a period of a few years, a small number of students travelled from Gambia to Sussex to be trained to the level of ambulance technician.[11]
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