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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...
Shahram Kashani is a consultant ophthalmologist who has worked at the trust for 12 years. Here Shahram tells us a little more about his career, his role and a recent challenge he undertook for an important cause. What led you to a career in ophthalmology? “My late father was an ophthalmologist and he was a…
In 2017 we received funding from Health Education England for six doctor’s assistant posts. The role of doctor’s assistant looks to take away some of the administrative and clinical pressures on doctors, in order to help increase productivity and, hopefully lead to a reduction in the length of stay for patients. Helen Wilkins was one…
