East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
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Trauma patients are those that have suffered and survived some of the most severe injuries that the NHS treats. These are people who have been involved in vehicle collisions, who have been shot or stabbed or who have experienced other severe, life-changing injuries that have required serious and often complex surgery to save their lives…
Jan Loose, a Therapy Assistant Practitioner in the integrated discharge team at Eastbourne, has achieved joint runner up at the recent Health Education England, ‘Celebrating inspirational AHP [Allied Health Professions] support workforce’ national awards. The awards celebrate the contributions of support workers to patient care and recognise individuals who work alongside the 14 Allied Health…
New one-stop cardiology service opens at Bexhill Community Diagnostic Centre...
The NHS across Sussex has set out the immediate and long-term priorities for improvement to health services for local people..
Glyn Hards joined the trust in July 2022 and was ‘new to role’, having previously worked as a chef. He was nominated for and won our Hero of the Month award just five months’ later – well done Glyn! His nominator said: “Glyn has developed his skills so incredibly well. When Glyn arrived, he had…
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have published their report into our Maternity Services...
Congratulations to Louise Myeni, Fran Williams and Ella Butler who won our Hero of the Month award...
The trauma risk management (TRiM) framework is a means of supporting staff after a potentially traumatic experience (PTE) or accumulation of experiences, and to identify symptoms of stress early. We talked to Kati Tewkesbury, TRiM Lead (pictured above right), and Kim Boorman, TRiM Lead and Schwartz Round Co-Ordinator (pictured above left), to find out more.…
Our services are under extreme pressure. We are seeing unprecedented numbers of people coming into our emergency departments and delays in discharging patients who are well enough to leave our care are limiting the number of beds we have available for those we need to admit. Other NHS services, such as GPs and ambulances, are…
We have lifted our temporary visiting restrictions for inpatient visits...
