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28 March 2024
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Make the right choice for your health needs this Easter

This Easter, the NHS in Sussex is urging everyone to make the right choice for their health needs, and use Minor Injury Units, Walk-in Centres, and Urgent Treatment Centres for urgent care that’s not an emergency. Teams across the NHS – at GP practices, NHS 111, hospitals, mental health services, ambulance, and community services –…

21 March 2024
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An award for Anna, supporting women to quit smoking in pregnancy

On 12 December last year Anna Tye, Healthy Pregnancy Support Worker, and members of the Tobacco Dependence Treatment team was invited to the House of Commons for the Smoking in Pregnancy Challenge group anniversary event where Anna was presented with her certificate of appreciation from the group for her hard and dedicated work.  The Smoking…

14 March 2024
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First laboratory in the Sussex Pathology Network to introduce digital pathology

We are one of the first trusts in the South East to introduce Digital Pathology into our laboratories. Digital pathology is a major new innovation within the Cellular Pathology field, and an emerging technology that builds on over 100 years of histological techniques to create digitized images of histological glass slides, which, traditionally, had to…

11 March 2024
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Spotlight on SLT Urgent Community Response service

The Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Urgent Community Response service’s primary goals are to avoid admission to hospital, facilitate speedier discharges, prevent complications, and improve an individual’s ability to communicate and/or eat and drink safely and comfortably. We spoke to Karen Davidson, specialist speech and language therapist, about her role. “My role within Urgent Community…

8 March 2024
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A touch of gentleness in critical care

At the beginning of last year, critical care nurse Carmen Diaz saw an advertisement from the charity Touch of Gentleness, which trains volunteers to give therapeutic hand massages. They go into care homes and addiction recovery centres to provide hand and foot massages for people who wouldn’t normally get to experience them. Carmen loved the…

4 March 2024
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Spotlight on the Joint Community Rehabilitation Team

The Joint Community Rehabilitation team (JCR) has been celebrating their 10-year anniversary and taking a look back over what the service has achieved since it formed a decade ago. This integrated service brings together NHS staff from East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust and adult social care staff from East Sussex County Council into three teams…

29 February 2024
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Update on Eastbourne Midwifery Unit

To provide certainty for patients we are now undertaking a review with maternity colleagues to develop a new staffing model...