Gregg Wicks is a Porter at Sussex Premier Health. Gregg was working late one evening when he noticed an elderly gentleman who was the last in the clinic. The gentleman was a bit anxious about being so late leaving the hospital, so Gregg waited for him to finish. Gregg knew they were both getting the…
Community rehabilitation plays a central role in many patients’ journeys of care, but also plays an important part in getting patients safely out of hospital and back to their homes – as well as stopping them from coming into hospital in the first place. We caught up with Georgia Daines, one of our Associate Practitioners…
Last month marked the 20th anniversary of the Multiple Sclerosis Self Help Exercise Group, which runs in the gym at Eastbourne District General Hospital on Friday evenings. Many of the group have been attending since it started, which is an amazing achievement. Debbie Soave, Team Lead Neurophysiotherapy Outpatients, said: “Group members worked on an exercise…
Michelle Bridger is a Professional Nurse Advocate delivering restorative supervision to colleagues in nursing and beyond. The Professional Nurse Advocate Programme was set up in March 2021, towards the end of the third wave of COVID-19. This was the start of a critical point of recovery: for patients, for services and for our workforce. Michelle…
Allied Health Professionals (AHP) play a vital part in providing care to patients in the NHS. Encompassing a wide range of therapist professionals as well as radiographers, dieticians, podiatrists, osteopaths, operating theatre practitioners, orthoptists, prosthetists and paramedics, the ongoing treatment and welfare of our patients couldn’t continue without their dedication and expertise. This year Allied…
Speaking up is about anything that gets in the way of patient care or that affects your working life. Speaking up can be offering a suggestion for improvement, raising a concern, or whistleblowing. The trust has two Freedom to Speak Up Guardians, Dominique Holliman and Ruth Agg. To celebrate Freedom to Speak Up month this…
This week is Physician Associate Week, raising the profile nationally of this interesting role, that has really started to take off in the NHS in the last few years. To find out more about what Physician Associates do in the health service, we talked to Zoe Cooke, Lead Physician Associate in the Acute Frailty Team…
Congratulations to the logistics team at Eastbourne District General Hospital for winning this month’s Hero of the Month award! The team was nominated by Kelly Porter, Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive and the Chairman. She said: “Tony and his team work extremely hard and often go unnoticed. They constantly go above and beyond to…
Did you know that each organ donor can save up to nine lives? This week is Organ Donation Week so we caught up with Joana de Letra, Organ Donation Specialist Nurse, to find out more about organ donation here at the trust and across the country. “I became interested in organ donation when I was…
To mark Organ Donation Week this year we unveiled a new bench, overlooking the lagoon at Conquest Hospital, in memory of people from the trust who became organ donors. Last year, seven families at the trust agreed to organ donation resulting in 15 patients receiving a life-saving or life-changing transplant. Dr Judith Highgate, Clinical Lead…
