9 March 2018
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National recognition for high quality of Audiology services

Paediatric and Adult Audiology services at the Trust have received the Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation, a national accreditation in recognition of the high quality of care and service they provide. The Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation is given to services that can demonstrate the highest levels of quality of service, care…

8 March 2018
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Latest winners of ESHT’s ‘Clean Care Award’

The nursing team at Rye, Winchelsea and District Memorial Hospital and Coronary Care Unit team at Eastbourne DGH are the latest winners of the Infection Prevention and Control Team’s ‘Clean Care Award’. Helen Tingley Infection Control Nurse Specialist said: “The quarterly “Clean Care Award” is awarded to clinical areas where outstanding infection prevention and control…

7 March 2018
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Young musicians appointed as Honorary Musicians in Residence

A scheme which aims to encourage musicianship, leadership and commitment and provides the largest live music programme in any hospital in the UK, has appointed eleven budding young musicians from schools across East Sussex, as Honorary Musicians in Residence for East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust by the charity Arts in Healthcare. The young musicians were…

6 March 2018
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25th Anniversary of first Resuscitation Council Advanced Life Support course

A Resuscitation Council UK Advanced Life Support course, first started in Eastbourne in March 1993, has celebrated a 25th anniversary at Eastbourne DGH. The Resuscitation Council UK Advanced Life Support course is a standardised national course, which uses evidence-based resuscitation guidelines and skills to educate a variety of healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom. The first official…

2 March 2018
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Special Care Baby Unit scores well in reducing avoidable admissions

The Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) at Conquest Hospital has scored well in a national initiative to reduce avoidable admission of full term babies to Neonatal units. The national initiative called ATAIN, set up in February 2017, aimed to reduce harm leading to avoidable admissions to neonatal units for babies born at or after 37…

26 February 2018
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Nurses invited to reception at Buckingham Palace

Two members of staff from the Trust, Xanthe Knowles – Deputy Head of Nursing for Medicine, and Lisa Ireland – Senior Specialist nurse in Paediatric Audiology, have been invited to a reception for frontline nurses, at Buckingham Palace in the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales. Lisa Ireland Senior Specialist nurse in Paediatric Audiology…

19 February 2018
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Help celebrate NHS 70th Anniversary

On 5th July 2018, the NHS is celebrating its 70th birthday. This landmark occasion is being celebrated nationally with major events as well as locally. In East Sussex we want to recognise the role the local National Health Service has played during that time. We would like your memories and reminiscences of those that have…

16 February 2018
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Let’s Get You Home video launched

A new video has been launched to explain the NHS Let’s Get You Home initiative to patients and the public across Sussex and East Surrey. It features real staff – nurses, social workers and hospital managers – who will help patients leave hospital swiftly and safely once their treatment there is complete. As well as…

15 February 2018
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Patient receives first innovative heart device in UK

An Eastbourne patient is the first in the UK to be implanted with an innovative Cardiac device to modulate the heart’s beat. It works completely differently from standard Heart Failure (CRT) devices currently used. It opens up a new horizon to patients with heart failure who would not benefit from conventional therapy. This new device…

14 February 2018
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Medication Passport launched

Medication Passports have been launched at Conquest Hospital to help people keep track of their medicines. They have been kindly funded by the Friends of Conquest Hospital. The Medication Passport lists a person’s medicines and dosage. It can be given to health professionals to help substantially reduce the risk of any communication mix up about…