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Specialist scopes donated to help with faster patient diagnosis
Two specialist scopes have been donated to the respiratory medicine team, by the Friends of Eastbourne Hospital...
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East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sussex Surgical Centre – name announced for major new facility at Eastbourne
Name announced for new elective surgical facility being built at Eastbourne...
Groundbreaking pacemaker procedure
The Cardiology team have introducted a cutting-edge Conduction System Pacemaker...
Think pharmacy first
Going to your local pharmacy offers an easy and convenient way to get clinical advice on minor health concerns, and now community pharmacies can offer treatment for seven common conditions without patients needing to see a GP, as part of a major transformation in the way the NHS delivers care. Highly trained pharmacists at more…
We talk to clinical educator Susan Godden about her role
We spoke to Susan Godden, Clinical Educator supporting international nurses, objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) training...
Huge success recruiting to the MIDI study
Our radiology and research teams have continued their success recruiting to the MIDI study and have passed the 2000th patient (2189). This clinical research study aims “to develop and test an AI tool that can identify MR head abnormalities using routine outpatient as well as dedicated research scans.” Our clinical research team were selected to deliver…