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The dementia care team support people with dementia and those with cognitive impairment or delirium during their hospital stay. They offer help and advice to patients, their families and staff on their treatment and care. We spoke to Claire Shimmons, a Dementia Care Practitioner, about her role and the different ways the trust is helping…
Sheryl Baker, Urgent Care Navigator in the emergency and urgent care departments at Eastbourne District General Hospital, has won our Hero of the Month Award! “I am nominating Sheryl as I spent many hours in the Emergency Department at Eastbourne with my mum, while we waited to be seen. “From the minute we walked in…
A team from the ophthalmology service at Bexhill Hospital, together with colleagues from across the country, visited Colombia recently to carry out life-changing eye surgery...
Erwin Castro, Diabetes Nurse Consultant, who has been awarded silver in the Diabetes Nurse of the Year Awards, held by the British Journal of Nursing...
The Friends of Eastbourne Hospital have been thanked for their recent donations towards projects at Eastbourne DGH...
With hundreds of hospital doctors on strike this week, people are being asked to help the local NHS provide safe care – or risk being redirected from A&E to other services, if that is appropriate. The priority for hospital staff this week will be on caring for those in the most need. People arriving at A&E departments…
The NHS in Sussex is urging people to ‘Help Us Help You’ over the next two weeks with Easter and industrial action ahead. The Easter period is traditionally pressured for health services with a four-day bank holiday, but with further junior doctor industrial action planned from 11 April 2023, it is expected to be significantly…
Dr Umesh Dashora, consultant in Endocrinology and Diabetes has been awarded the title of Honorary Clinical Professor...
Sussex Premier Health celebrates its first anniversary of providing healthcare under the ownership of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust on 1 April 2023. Sussex Premier Health, now a private division of the trust, offers inpatient and outpatient services for a wide range of specialities, including orthopaedics, general surgery and ophthalmology. With its own imaging and…
Bexhill Community Diagnostic Centre, which provides diagnostics services such as cardiac diagnostics, has been officially opened by the Mayor of Bexhill, Councillor Paul Plim...
