AACE: Association of Ambulance Chief Executives

Welcome to the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives

The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) provides ambulance services with a central organisation that supports, coordinates and implements nationally agreed policy. It also provides the general public and other stakeholders with a central resource of information about NHS ambulance services.

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AACE publishes Annual Report for 2019-20

The financial year of 2019/20 was a year of three-quarters and a quarter. From...

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NHS Providers … in conversation with AACE Chair Daren Mochrie

Reflections and learnings from the pandemic to date, the challenges faced by the ambulance...

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The ambulance response to the COVID-19 pandemic: what went well and how do we sustain the benefits?

Ambulance services, at the forefront of caring for patients within the pandemic setting, had...

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NHSE&I and AACE launch Repository of Good Practice for Safely Reducing Ambulance Conveyance to Emergency Departments

Examples of initiatives that are working well and are being monitored, evaluated and shared...

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New Every Mind Matters campaign to support mental health during the Covid-19 outbreak

We are all aware of the challenges to the nation's mental health as a...

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New JRCALC (2019) Clinical Guidelines now available

The Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee guidelines are the essential resource for paramedics....

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AACE News Wire

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NHS Confederation: Caution is key as next stage of lockdown easing approaches

The NHS Confederation has commented on the latest Downing Street press conference...

Press release: Twice weekly rapid testing to be available to everyone in England

Everyone in England will be able to access free, regular, rapid coronavirus (COVID-19) testing from 9 April, the government has announced...

Policy paper: COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing recovery action plan

Our plan to prevent, mitigate and respond to the mental health impacts of the pandemic during 2021 to 2022....

NHS Confederation: Long COVID adds to pressure on NHS

The NHS Confederation has commented on the data published by the ONS on Long COVID...

Work begins for UK Health Security Agency to protect the nation

The new UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has today been formally established with Dr Jenny Harries starting her first day as the Chief Executive...

NARU bids farewell to Gerry Byrne after a distinguished career in the NHS ambulance service

NARU's hugely respected Head of Capabilities Gerry Byrne has retired from the ambulance service after 38 years. Gerry joined the former Merseyside Metropolitan Ambulance...