The Department for Health and Social Care has confirmed that it will be investing £13.86m as a capital loan into East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust over the next three years, with £4.6m being invested this year alone. This investment is additional to any capital funding for this year.
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is hosting a Deaf User Group on Thursday 10th October from 3.00pm to 4.30pm at Bexhill Hospital in the Chapel meeting room.
Samantha Teare, Therapy Assistant and Jane Ferguson, Clinical Ward Orderly have both won an Employee of the Month Award for their ideas and commitment to patients at Rye, Winchelsea and District Memorial Hospital.
A vein viewer, which will be used to assist nursing staff take bloods from children on Friston and in the Emergency Department, has been donated by the Friends of Eastbourne Hospital.
Stephen Lloyd, MP for Eastbourne and Willingdon, visited the Endoscopy Unit at Eastbourne DGH to find out about the work of the team, who perform around 650 endoscopic procedures each month.
Care of cancer patients by East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has again been highly praised in a national survey of patients who were diagnosed with the disease.
Tympanometers which assess the middle ear, Eustachian tube and acoustic reflex pathway on patients of all ages have been donated to the Audiology department by the Friends of Eastbourne Hospital.
A team of 13 people, mainly ambulance staff but including current patient Caroline Flack, who undertook the gruelling ‘Three Peaks Challenge’, have raised over £3,288 for Pevensey ward at Eastbourne DGH.
Members of the East Sussex Healthcare Organ Donation Committee are encouraging people across the county to talk about organ donation with their families
Tracy-Anne Mitchell, an ex-patient of the Judy Beard Unit at Conquest Hospital, along with her friend Ian Gillam, has presented a cheque for £230 to the unit after holding a Bandana Day.
