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…
Members of staff from East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust attended the inaugural Eastbourne Pride to promote the organisation as a place to work and the benefits of working at ESHT. People also had the opportunity to sign up to join patient user groups which will help to shape and influence future decision making along with…
Care of cancer patients at the Trust has again been highly praised in a national survey of patients who were diagnosed with the disease. The National Cancer Patient Experience Survey has been published and was completed by 613 local patients. Patients were asked to rate their care overall on a scale of 1-10 and patients…
The Trust has appointed Vikki Carruth as Director of Nursing, who will join the Trust in the autumn, having been Director of Nursing and Quality at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust for three years and previously Deputy Chief Nurse at St George’s Healthcare in southwest London. Vikki will replace Alice Webster who left the Trust…
The contribution Mentors and Preceptors make to peoples’ careers has been recognised by an awards ceremony held by the Trust. Those present were nominated by the nurses and healthcare care staff they mentor, with moving citations read out about every award nominee. The ceremony culminated in the presentation of the following awards by Trust directors:…
