The programme to offer free NHS health checks to eligible Trust staff has been extended and is being used nationally as a model for best practice for other organisations to learn from. The programme, which is delivered in partnership with East Sussex County Council and OneYou East Sussex, has already seen over a thousand Trust…
A new community outreach service to screen for and treat Hepatitis C amongst substance misuse clients in the community, is having a positive impact with an increase in the number of people testing for the illness and receiving treatment. The service is jointly provided by East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (as part of the Sussex…
The increasingly popular Eastbourne Midwifery Unit has had the busiest year so far with a 15.6% increase in the number of births to 332, compared with 287 in the previous year. Of those babies born last year, 126 babies were born to first time mothers, representing a 57.5% increase in first time mothers birthing at…
A Happy Baby Club has been launched across maternity services at the Trust, to help mums give their babies the best start in life and promote six simple messages. The six simple messages are: Feeding baby safely, Looking at baby and smiling, Protecting baby from second hand smoke, Cuddling baby, No shouting near baby and…
Players and representatives from Eastbourne Town Football Club have donated over £1,100 to Pevensey ward at Eastbourne DGH, in gratitude to the care given to club members. David Jenkins, Chairman of Eastbourne Town Football Club said: “Everyone at Eastbourne Town is full of admiration for the work done by the NHS. We organised a collection…
Karen Carter a Senior Secretary to the Gastroenterology Consultants at the Trust has won an ‘Employee of the month’ award for her work with the Pharmacy department which made savings on prescription drugs. Janki Patel, Lead Pharmacist Specialist Medicine who nominated Karen said: “Karen, as the Secretary, has gone out of her way to find…
A patient previously cared for on the Critical Care Unit at Eastbourne DGH has returned, with her husband, to thank the doctors and nurses and donate a sofa for the relative’s room. Sue Harris, spent several weeks in the critical care unit, with her husband Norman, by her bedside. The couple have donated a new…
Ophthalmology Consultant Peter Gregory has retired after almost 27 years’ service to the local community as a specialist eye surgeon in the Trust. Peter joined the organisation in October 1992, as his first consultant appointment, having previously trained at Cambridge and Barts Hospital. His particular interest is in paediatric ophthalmology and strabismus, a condition where…
Following an 18 month transformation programme, the Trust’s intermediate care services at Irvine Rehabilitation Unit (Bexhill) and Rye, Winchelsea and District Memorial Hospital, have seen a reduction in the length of stay by an average of almost 10 days (figures for three months February to April 2018 compared to November 2018 to January 2019). This…
Specialist Gynaecology Nurses at the Trust are urging women to talk openly about ovarian cancer, understand the potential symptoms and to book potentially life-saving GP check-ups, in an effort to save more lives this Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Ovarian cancer is when abnormal cells in the ovary begin to grow and divide in an uncontrolled…
