Our emergency departments are currently extremely busy, and you may face a long wait to be seen. More information is available on alternative services.
Treating patients so they don’t need to come into hospital is just as important as the care they receive while in hospital. The community frailty team, who cover the area from Seaford over to Rye, specialise in treating people over the age of 75 who are living with frailty. Frailty is a medical condition describing…
The dementia care team support people with dementia and those with cognitive impairment or delirium during their hospital stay. They offer help and advice to patients, their families and staff on their treatment and care. We spoke to Claire Shimmons, a Dementia Care Practitioner, about her role and the different ways the trust is helping…
Sheryl Baker, Urgent Care Navigator in the emergency and urgent care departments at Eastbourne District General Hospital, has won our Hero of the Month Award! “I am nominating Sheryl as I spent many hours in the Emergency Department at Eastbourne with my mum, while we waited to be seen. “From the minute we walked in…
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…
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…
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…
Since it launched in December, the trust’s virtual wards have seen more than 300 patients, providing a range of hospital-grade services to patients in the comfort of their own home. We caught up with Sam Morley, the Advanced Clinical Lead for Virtual Wards for the trust, to hear more about the service and how it’s…
Nutrition and Hydration Week started in 2012 with the aim of bringing people together to highlight the value of food and drink in maintaining health and wellbeing. The Wednesday of Nutrition and Hydration Week is Swallowing Awareness Day, the first of which was organised by our very own team of speech and language therapists back…
This week marks Nutrition and Hydration Week, an annual event to educate people on the value of food and drink in maintaining health and wellbeing. At the centre of the week is Swallowing Awareness Day, raising awareness of the work speech and language therapists (SLTs) do to help people living with eating, drinking and swallowing…
