South East Coast Ambulance Service

The South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) is the NHS Ambulance Services Trust for south-eastern England, covering Kent (including Medway), Surrey, West Sussex and East Sussex (including Brighton and Hove). It also covers a part of north-eastern Hampshire around Aldershot, Farnborough, Fleet and Yateley. SECAmb was made a NHS Foundation Trust on 1 March 2011 - one of only two FTs in England.

It is one of 12 ambulance trusts providing England with emergency medical services, and is part of the National Health Service, receiving direct government funding for its role. There is no charge to patients for use of the service, and under the Patient's Charter, every person in the United Kingdom has the right to the attendance of an ambulance in an emergency.

The service came into being on 1 July 2006, with the merger of the former Kent Ambulance Service, Surrey Ambulance Service and Sussex Ambulance Service.

Until March 2016, the Chief Executive of the Trust was Paul Sutton, who was previously Chief Executive Officer of Sussex Ambulance Service, and the Trust's Chair was Tony Thorne. On 14 March 2016, the BBC announced that Thorne had resigned, and that Sutton would be taking a leave of absence from the trust. At the request of the health regulator for England, Monitor, Thorne was replaced by Sir Peter Dixon who will act as the trust's interim chair.

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