On Holocaust Memorial Day (27th January 2020) we are remembering Dr Edward Katz, who was born in 1913 in Berlin and escaped the Nazi regime by coming to the UK in the 1930s and who worked in a hospital in Eastbourne. Dr Katz was initially exempted from internment in 1939, although he was later briefly…
A newly refurbished 26 bedded medical ward, which will give additional capacity to the hospital has opened at Eastbourne DGH after a complete refit, to improve the caring environment.
Seven military personnel from the 12th and 16th Royal Artillery have arrived at the Trust to help support our portering and rapid response cleaning teams during these challenging times.
New Covid testing machines which have the potential to undertake around 500 nose and throat swabs tests a day, have become operational at the Trust, and will significantly increase Covid testing capacity and speed up the turnaround time for test results for patients. The high volume testing machine, called a PerkinElmer, will significantly reduce the…
Our Medical Director, Dr David Walker is calling on East Sussex communities to adhere to the new lockdown guidance as Covid-19 cases continue to increase in East Sussex.
Frontline health and care staff at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, local care home workers, and staff from other local NHS organisations have started to receive their first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at both Conquest Hospital and Eastbourne DGH. Vaccine delivery started at Conquest Hospital at the end of December 2020, with the…
We are very sorry, but due to the current unprecedented situation with an increase in cases of Covid-19 across Sussex, immediate changes are being made to maternity services to ensure that all births can take place as safely as possible. Our local ambulance service is under significant pressure. Whilst they are prioritising urgent 999 calls,…
Thank you for the overwhelming support you have shown us in 2020, which has been a year like no other...
Dr David Walker the Medical Director at the Trust is appealing via our video to the residents of East Sussex, to please follow the latest Tier guidelines..
In an interview with BBC South East on Wednesday 17th December 2020, Dr David Walker, Medical Director at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust and a Hastings resident, shared the news that the Trust is admitting more Covid-19 positive patients, following the increase in cases across East Sussex, but especially in the Hastings and Rother area.…
