Bella and owner Barry Coase, who visit patients at Eastbourne DGH, have won the HiLife Pets As Therapy Dog of the Year award at Crufts 2019. The award was voted for by readers of Yours Magazine and presented by James Middleton, Ambassador for Pets as Therapy. Since starting her role at Eastbourne DGH, Bella a…
A new multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinic has been launched at Conquest Hospital which brings together in one clinic, Vascular and Diabetic doctors and specialist nurses along with Podiatrists, to provide the best possible care for patients with diabetic foot problems. The multidisciplinary diabetic foot clinic provides those patients deemed at risk of losing a lower…
Nutrition and Dietetic teams and their Speech and Language colleagues are taking part in National Nutrition and Hydration week 2019 (11th to 17th March, to raise awareness and improve the understanding of the importance of good nutrition and hydration, and National Swallowing Awareness day on 13th March to help raise awareness of people with eating…
The Friends of Bexhill, Conquest and Eastbourne Hospitals have donated eight ventilators to the home ventilation service, to help people with chronic respiratory failure, in their own homes. The home ventilation service helps patients to stay at home and avoid admission into hospital. The donated ventilators are small and used at the bed side to…
During National Apprenticeship week (4th to 8th March 2019), the Physiotherapy service at ESHT have highlighted how they have been benefitting from the apprenticeship scheme to upskill physiotherapy support workers, to enable services to deliver on commitments in the NHS long term plan (LTP). One of the commitments in the LTP is improving access to…
A Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) patient of 14 years ago has returned to the unit with his dad, to donate money on behalf of a local Masons Lodge. Louie Hammond was born nine weeks early in 2004, and spent the early weeks of his life in the SCBU at Conquest Hospital. His Dad, Paul…
A mobile tablet device has been donated by local company Booker and Best, to the Emergency Department at Conquest Hospital to be used as a distraction tool when treating children. Matron, Becky Bell said: “We would like to thank Booker and Best for donating this tablet. We will use it to distract children when we…
The Clinical Improvement Team of Emma Jones-Davies, Emma Tate and Sammi Foy have won the Employee of the Month award for their efforts in lowering the Trust’s mortality rate from sepsis by 38%, in the past two years. Dr David Walker, Medical Director, who nominated the team, said: “Emma Jones-Davies, Emma Tate and Sammi Foy…
The Trust has welcome seventeen newly qualified nurses, who have taken up posts within acute and community areas. Nine nurses have taken up posts at Eastbourne DGH, five nurses at Conquest Hospital and three nurse have taken up posts within the community. Vikki Carruth, Director of Nursing, said: “I would like to congratulate all the…
Local MP Stephen Lloyd has visited the physiotherapy department at Eastbourne DGH to meet with physiotherapists and see the varied aspects of their work. Around 170 physiotherapists work across the Trust with 70 of them working specifically in the Eastbourne area. Physiotherapists provide therapy in acute hospital services like critical care, stroke and neurology and…
