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2 October 2025
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Celebrating Success: Project Search Intern Graduation 

Last Wednesday (24 September) the trust proudly celebrated the graduation of our interns from East Sussex College, Eastbourne Campus, who had completed the Project Search programme for the academic year 2024/2025. The event took place in the lecture theatre at Eastbourne DGH and was marked by an atmosphere full of smiles, laughter, and joy. This…

8 September 2025
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Sussex Surgical Centre opens!

Our new £40 million purpose-built unit, elective surgery hub, called the Sussex Surgical Centre, has opened its doors to its first patients...

3 September 2025
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Celebrating Hastings Pride 2025

Colleagues from the trust, alongside colleagues from Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust took part in Hastings Pride 2025...

21 August 2025
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New aquablation procedure brings benefits for patients with enlarged prostate

Last month, two of our consultant urologists, Mr Edward Calleja and Mr Kamil Quraishi, successfully performed our first aquablation procedures at Eastbourne District General Hospital. This makes us one of the first NHS Trusts in the region to provide this advanced technology and marks a significant advancement in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), more…

11 August 2025
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Trust is shortlisted for HSJ Award for support for veterans

We have been shortlisted as a finalist for the prestigious HSJ Awards in the Military and Civilian Health Partnership Award category for our Veteran Aware and Armed Forces Initiative work. Our award entry covered the trust’s roll-out of Armed Forces awareness training for staff, our work to better identify veterans in our patients pathways, our…