The Trust’s Community Stroke Rehabilitation Team have been at the Eastbourne Arndale Centre, promoting awareness of stroke and stroke prevention and offering shoppers the opportunity to have their blood pressure checked and to test for an irregular heartbeat. The team were also offering general advice on how to reduce the risk of stroke. Jill Gorman,…
Specialist Nurse Manager Liz Lipsham, along with the Occupational Health and Wellbeing team, have won the employee of the month award for leading the Trust’s flu campaign which resulted in 72% of frontline staff receiving a flu jab. This was an increase of almost a third compared with the previous year’s uptake. The team was…
The Trust’s Specialist Diabetes Team is promoting the importance of insulin safety during the first-ever national Insulin Safety Week. All people with Type 1 diabetes are dependent on insulin to control their blood glucose levels. Type 2 diabetes is predominantly a progressive condition. Initially it may be possible to manage Type 2 diabetes with lifestyle…
The Trust was delighted to welcome Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra to Eastbourne District General Hospital to mark the 70th anniversary of the formation of the Friends of Eastbourne Hospital. Her Royal Highness unveiled a plaque to mark the anniversary and spent time meeting friends of the hospital and volunteers who do so much to…
Occupational therapists and physiotherapists at the Trust ran a whole week of events to celebrate National Gardening Week and raise awareness of the diversity, richness and cultural value of gardening. Gardening helps to keep people active and to reduce stress levels, and that can help prevent heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and other associated lifestyle diseases.…
Maternity support workers and student midwives at the Trust, held a series of events to celebrate International Day of the Midwife 2018 with support from the Royal College of Midwives. As well as making tea and homemade cakes for all members of the teams at both Conquest Hospital and Eastbourne DGH, there was a raffle…
The Trust’s Infection Prevention and Control team has been raising awareness of the importance of hand hygiene to prevent health care associated infection as part of World Hand Hygiene Day. The banner headline for the day, organised by the World Health Organisation, was “It’s in your hands – prevent sepsis in health care”. The call…
Stephen Lloyd MP has visited the Cardiology Unit at Eastbourne DGH, to tour the unit and meet the clinical teams. The Cardiology team at Eastbourne DGH consists of over 100 doctors, physiologists and nurses. They diagnose, treat and care for patients with suspected and confirmed heart conditions. Around 2,600 heart procedures are performed and over…
A cough assist machine, which clears secretions or ‘phlegm’ from the lungs of respiratory compromised patients, who are unable to produce an effective cough, has been generously donated to the Critical Care Unit at Eastbourne DGH, by a former patient and his family who raised £4,500 through donations. Barry West, from Uckfield, spent seven months…
A ten week intensive walking and cycling programme, designed to encourage better lifestyle choices, has delivered healthy benefits and lasting change for some members of staff at Eastbourne DGH. The Active Steps programme is a Sustrans initiative which aims to increase participants activity levels by making it a part of their daily routine. Delivered at…
