South East Coast Ambulance Service

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
SECAmb
The area served by the South East Coast Ambulance Service
Type	NHS foundation trust
Established	1 July 2006
Headquarters	Crawley[1]
Region served	East Sussex, West Sussex, Kent, Surrey, and North East Hampshire
Area size	3,600 square miles (9,300 km2)
Population	4.46 million (2018)
Budget	£250.8 million (2019/2020)[2]
Chair	David Astley [3]
Chief executive	Simon Weldon [4]
Staff	3,300
Website	www.secamb.nhs.uk

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. The service was made an NHS foundation trust on 1 March 2011.

It is one of ten ambulance services trusts providing England with emergency medical services, and is part of the National Health Service, receiving direct government funding for its role.

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.^[5]