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:…
Members of the East Sussex Healthcare Organ Donation Committee were promoting awareness of the organ donor register at this weekend’s 999 Event. In total 235 people signed up onto the Organ Donor Register. To help promote organ donation there was a giant version of the board game Operation called Operation Donation which gave people the…
An innovative new treatment for an enlarged prostate called UroLift System, has been used at Eastbourne DGH, one of the first NHS hospitals in Sussex and Kent to carry out the procedure. This new minimally invasive treatment acts like curtain tie-backs to hold open the lobes of an enlarged prostate to create a channel from…
Staff Nurse Angie Short has won the Trust’s monthly staff award for her support and patience with an agitated patient. Sue Taylor, Matron who nominated her said: “Staff nurse Angie attended a patient in the discharge lounge that was extremely agitated and aggressive. The ambulance crew were concerned because of his behaviour in the ambulance;…
As part of the ‘end PJ paralysis’ campaign to highlight the benefits of patients getting dressed as soon as possible when they are in hospital, some staff at the Trust have swapped their uniforms for pyjamas. Research shows that patients who stay in their pyjamas or gowns longer than they need are likely to lose…
