Members of the East Sussex Healthcare Organ Donation Committee are encouraging people across the county to talk about organ donation with their families. This Organ Donation Week (4th to 10th September), ask yourselves as a family what you would do if one of you needed a transplant: would you accept a life-saving organ? If you’d…
Approximately 150 people sought medical treatment and hundreds more are believed to have been affected by an unknown gas cloud that hit the East Sussex coast on Sunday 27th August. The first reports of a ‘haze’ coming in from the sea were received from Birling Gap, between Eastbourne and Seaford, just before 5pm. People reported…
Members of the East Sussex Healthcare Organ Donation Committee were promoting awareness of the organ donor register at Eastbourne’s Airbourne. In total 360 people signed up to the Organ Donor Register. To help promote organ donation there was a giant version of the board game Operation called ‘Operation donation’. The giant game gave people the…
The old Health Records Library at Conquest Hospital has been transformed into office space, following a £450,000 refurbishment. The clinical administration teams who are now able to enjoy a better working environment and will use the office include health records, two week wait and outpatient bookings teams. Space was freed up following the provision of…
New mums needing breastfeeding support and advice can now find help at children’s centres and health visiting clinics across the county. East Sussex’s health visiting and children centre service has been given stage 2 of an internationally-recognised accreditation by Unicef after training hundreds of staff to support mums to breastfeed. Having already achieved Stage 1…
Information Manager Andy Bailey has won the Trust’s monthly staff award for his work developing a new Emergency Department IT system with real time information. Sarah Goldsack, Knowledge Management said: “Andy has worked incredibly hard to develop and implement a suite of reports on InPhase for the Emergency Department. These have contributed significantly to the…
De Cham Ward at Conquest Hospital and Hailsham 2 Ward at Eastbourne DGH are the latest winners of the Infection Prevention and Control Team’s ‘Clean Care Award’. Sammi Foy, Infection Control Nurse said: “The quarterly “Clean Care Award” is awarded to clinical areas where outstanding infection prevention and control practice is evident. There are two…
A new state-of-the-art simulation training laboratory to improve the development of healthcare worker’s clinical skills, has been opened by Chief Executive, Dr Adrian Bull. Clinical staff of all disciplines will be able to practice skills and procedures, both common and uncommon in an educationally safe environment. In the simulation training laboratory clinical scenarios are re-created…
Sarah Blanchard-Stow has started in the new role of Assistant Director of Midwifery and Nursing at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust. Since qualifying as a Midwife in 2000 Sarah has a gained a wide range of midwifery experience. She joins the Trust from Queens Hospital, Romford, a unit delivering around 8,000 babies a year where…
Providing breakfast for patients leaving hospital in the discharge lounge is helping to free up beds on the wards earlier in the day for poorly patients requiring admission. At Eastbourne DGH a Breakfast Club has recently been launched to offer patients being discharged a breakfast between 7.00am and 9.00am. This is helping to free up…
