Diabetes and endocrinology team hold face-to-face appointments again
The diabetes and endocrinology team at Eastbourne have started to welcome people for face-to-face consultations again, following a major refurbishment...
Nurse Samantha wins prestigious Queen’s Nurse award
Samantha Smith, Head of Nursing for Intermediate Care in Community, has been honoured with the title of Queens Nurse by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) at an awards ceremony in December. The prestigious title of Queen’s Nurse was reintroduced in 2007 after a gap of almost 40 years. The title is recognition of individual nurses…
Hero of the Month award for Hannah
Hannah, who works in our Urgent Community Response service has won our Hero of the Month award. Hannah was nominated after she attended a care call where the patient had collapsed and were no longer breathing. Hannah immediately called 999 and began CPR which she continued until the ambulance arrived. As a new support worker…
Trust team shortlisted for prestigious HSJ Partnership award
Congratulations to our Speech and Language Team who have been shortlisted for the ‘Patient Safety Collaboration of the Year award’...
SCBU team supporting World Prematurity Day
Friday 17 November was World Prematurity Day. Around 60,000 babies are born prematurely each year in the UK...
Nurse recognised for dedication supporting bereaved families
An NHS Sussex nurse, who works with bereaved families, has been nominated for the national Elaine Thorp Award for Bereavement Care. Faye Biggs, a child death review specialist nurse, has been nominated for this prestigious award, which celebrates her work in her rewarding and emotionally challenging role. The Award is run by Sands, the UK’s…
Neil, our Hero of the Month
Our August Hero of the Month was Neil Maskell, a Waste Porter at Eastbourne DGH. Neil was nominated as he highlights what our trust is all about. He is always full of smiles, greets everyone when walking along the corridor and is very polite. Nothing is ever too much trouble, and he clearly takes a…
Karen puts her best foot forward to raise funds for charity
Karen Manson, one of our non-executive directors, recently completed a gruelling 16 day walk (190 miles), to raise over £1000 for the East Sussex Healthcare NHS charity. Karen, who is also chair of the charity, walked with her sister-in-law and two friends, as they followed the Wainwright’s Coast to Coast Walk, starting out in St.…
A spotlight on our international nurses
Every year we welcome our new cohort of international nurses into the trust. We spoke to Ahamefula Adanma and Manju Manju about their experiences. Ada joined the trust in 2021 as an international nurse working on Irvine Unit at Bexhill Hospital. When she arrived it was at the height of COVID and the process of…
2,000 robotic urology operations at Eastbourne DGH
In October our urology team reached the fantastic milestone of 2,000 robotic operations performed at Eastbourne DGH. We spoke to Mr Karl Spiteri, Consultant Urologist, about the robotic urology service. “Since the surgical robot was introduced at Eastbourne DGH in 2015, the robotic urology service has gone from strength to strength, and we have become…