On 12 December last year Anna Tye, Healthy Pregnancy Support Worker, and members of the Tobacco Dependence Treatment team was invited to the House of Commons for the Smoking in Pregnancy Challenge group anniversary event where Anna was presented with her certificate of appreciation from the group for her hard and dedicated work. The Smoking…
Two specialist scopes have been donated to the respiratory medicine team, by the Friends of Eastbourne Hospital...
We are one of the first trusts in the South East to introduce Digital Pathology into our laboratories. Digital pathology is a major new innovation within the Cellular Pathology field, and an emerging technology that builds on over 100 years of histological techniques to create digitized images of histological glass slides, which, traditionally, had to…
The Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Urgent Community Response service’s primary goals are to avoid admission to hospital, facilitate speedier discharges, prevent complications, and improve an individual’s ability to communicate and/or eat and drink safely and comfortably. We spoke to Karen Davidson, specialist speech and language therapist, about her role. “My role within Urgent Community…
At the beginning of last year, critical care nurse Carmen Diaz saw an advertisement from the charity Touch of Gentleness, which trains volunteers to give therapeutic hand massages. They go into care homes and addiction recovery centres to provide hand and foot massages for people who wouldn’t normally get to experience them. Carmen loved the…
The Joint Community Rehabilitation team (JCR) has been celebrating their 10-year anniversary and taking a look back over what the service has achieved since it formed a decade ago. This integrated service brings together NHS staff from East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust and adult social care staff from East Sussex County Council into three teams…
Name announced for new elective surgical facility being built at Eastbourne...
The Cardiology team have introducted a cutting-edge Conduction System Pacemaker...
Going to your local pharmacy offers an easy and convenient way to get clinical advice on minor health concerns, and now community pharmacies can offer treatment for seven common conditions without patients needing to see a GP, as part of a major transformation in the way the NHS delivers care. Highly trained pharmacists at more…
We spoke to Susan Godden, Clinical Educator supporting international nurses, objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) training...
