Last week our Community Health and Integrated Care (CHIC) division hosted a clinically-led patient experience event at the Devonshire Park tennis centre bringing together patient partners, Healthwatch, and different teams from across the division to share their experience of patient engagement. The teams looked discuss and collaborate on the most fundamental issues around patient feedback…
An exciting new multi-faith space has now opened at Eastbourne DGH, offering a larger, more well-equipped area for religious observance. This innovative project was sparked by the invaluable feedback from colleagues and patients, who noted that the previous rooms were too small and lacked separate prayer spaces for men and women. Led by the Equality…
Earlier this month the trust was selected to support the Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad (CVLP) platform delivered locally by Consultant Medical Oncologist, Dr Aspasia Soultati and her team (pictured). The cancer vaccine pad aims to speed up access to messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) personalised cancer vaccine clinical trials for people who have been diagnosed with…
Over the last year, the trust has had strengthened it’s focus on supporting armed forces veterans, reservists and their families. Earlier this year we got our Veteran Aware accreditation, a national award granted by the Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance to NHS organisations that strengthen their support of and commitment to the armed forces community. As…
The Infusion Unit based at Eastbourne DGH will soon be operating a seven-day service to help ease the pressure on Same Day Emergency Care as well as opening up more available appointments supporting our chronically unwell patients lifestyles, whilst providing an enhanced patient experience and satisfaction. The unit is nurse-led and offers biological therapies along…
After an incredible 50 years working for the NHS, this is Ingrid Benge’s last week working in Jubilee Eye Suite at Eastbourne DGH. Ingrid started as a nurse in 1974, working in the surgical unit between St Mary’s and Princess Alice hospitals in Eastbourne. Following the building of the hospital in 1976 Ingrid moved there…
Our Speech and Language Therapy Team are proud to be HSJ Partnership Awards 2024 Gold Winners of the Patient Safety Collaboration of the Year. They won the national award for their work in transforming patient safety with specialist, cost-effective dysphagia management e-learning and support. The HSJ Partnerships Awards happen annually and celebrate success stories along…
On 12 December last year Anna Tye, Healthy Pregnancy Support Worker, and members of the Tobacco Dependence Treatment team was invited to the House of Commons for the Smoking in Pregnancy Challenge group anniversary event where Anna was presented with her certificate of appreciation from the group for her hard and dedicated work. The Smoking…
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…
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…
