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11 March 2024
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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…

8 March 2024
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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…

4 March 2024
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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…

22 February 2024
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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…

2 February 2024
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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…

26 January 2024
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Student of the year award for audiologist Rachel

Huge congratulations to Rachel Crum, audiologist, for receiving the British Audiology Student of the Year award. Rachel completed her MSC in Audiology Science with Clinical Practise at University College London late last year. She has been on placement within the audiology department at the trust for the past year and moved into her permanent role…

11 January 2024
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Nationally recognised accreditation for Occupational Health Team

A huge congratulations to our Occupational Health (OH) team for their accreditation assessment, based on the Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Standards SEQOHS 2015. There are only 185 accredited OH services in the country so this is an outstanding achievement for the team. Any provider of OH Services can apply for SEQOHS accreditation and the…