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- Stuart Welling, Chair of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, steps down after more than four years in the role
- National survey shows most children and young people report good experiences of hospital care, but highlights some areas for improvement
- Giving Blood: Our quick guide to becoming a donor
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- World Autism Acceptance Week 2023
- Our Annual Report 'The value of listening' presented to the East Sussex Health and Wellbeing Board
- Organ Donation Week - Why it’s so important to talk about it
- Trust shortlisted for prestigious national award
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- How and where to access health and care services over the festive period
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- NHS Complaints Process Due to Resume from 1st July 2020
- Results of the GP Patient Survey 2023: Find out how your GP surgery performed
- Our host organisation East Sussex Community Voice are recruiting a Trainee Communication and Marketing Officer
- A new provider for Non-Emergency Patient Transport in Sussex
- BSUH among the best in the country for homebirths
- Healthwatch East Sussex launch ‘Ask Us – Tell Us’ campaign for Lockdown 2
- Don't brush it under the carpet campaign 2024
- NHS is urging people to continue to attend vaccination appointments
- Director's update November 2021
- NOW CLOSED: Our host organisation are recruiting a Business Support Officer
- Surprise inspection by top troubleshooters at Royal Sussex’s A&E
- Healthwatch East Sussex review of maternity services provided by East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- New service to detect swallowing disorders
- Friends donate equipment
- The Eastbourne Listening Tour begins
- Have your say on the East Sussex funding gap consultations
- Trust introduces new scheme to support patients with dementia
- Patient Transport Service in Sussex delivering an improved service says Healthwatch
- NHS England warns of increased risk of heart attack and stroke in the days immediately following a cold snap
- What should you expect after a dementia diagnosis
- Healthwatch publishes people’s experiences of Patient Transport Services in Sussex
- Patients give excellent feedback on their cancer care at East Sussex Healthcare
- Pharmacies begin treating people for common conditions
- Dr Gupta’s resignation from Foxhill Medical Centre, Peacehaven
- Expanded Same Day Emergency Care Unit Opens
- HavensHealth GP Surgery, Peacehaven: Responding to local concerns
- Healthwatch in Sussex feature in Healthwatch England’s Annual Report
- Aged 16 or 17? Tell us your experiences of COVID-19 Vaccinations
- National Eye Health Week
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- New main reception for Princess Royal Hospital
- Kings Fund - An alternative guide to mental health care in England
- South East Coast Ambulance Service preparing for busy Easter weekend
- NHS Sussex survey - Understanding your experiences of Social Prescribing in Sussex
- Find out how your GP surgery performed over the last 12 months
- Join in the Connecting 4 You ‘Big Health and Care Conversation’.
- Living life to the full in care homes in East Sussex
- NHS in Sussex advice and information for patients and the public during Junior Doctors industrial action
- Sussex-wide Women’s Health Focus Groups
- Patient safety warning at Princess Royal Hospital
- CQC seeks views on its vision for the future
- Sussex Partnership Carer Survey
- East Sussex Health care NHS Trust invitation to review it's Quality Account
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust welcomes new nurses
- NHS Digital Platforms
- Children’s hospital rated highly by young patients
- The Care Act in East Sussex: a quick summary - August 2015
- Speak Up Guardian Appointed
- ESBT – Connected Care Assessment Workshop
- A Fond Farewell to Frances
- Are you interested in helping the NHS to improve the Outpatient experience?
- Sussex reaches milestone of one million COVID-19 vaccinations
- Senior Staff changes at ESCV and Healthwatch East Sussex
- Mental Health Awareness week 2024
- Raising awareness of stroke
- Trust’s Pathology Departments achieve national accreditation
- Most people are receiving good care – but strong leadership and collaboration are crucial to facing challenges ahead
- Making Every Contact Count in Hastings and Rother
- Ordering repeat prescriptions
- Healthwatch's role in improving Sussex Non-Emergency Patient Transport receives recognition
- Diabetic Eye Screening Programme wins monthly award
- Trust Board meeting
- RoundTable and 41 Club donate money to Pevensey ward
- Update on Seasonal Flu and COVID-19 Vaccinations
- Life-saving treatment starts for patients with brain conditions
- Public invited to Big Conversation Event
- Many women have a positive experience of local maternity services
- NHS in Sussex Where to get health help in the hot weather
- Have your say on the proposed future location of specialist cancer services for children
- Project Search offers a chance to work to young adults with a Learning Difficulty or Disability
- New rehabilitation equipment for stroke patients
- CQC welcomes improvements at South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust but further work is required.
- The Big Health and Care (social distancing) Conversation
- NHS Dental Services in Sussex
- Pharmacy opening times: May 29th Bank Holiday 2023
- Crowborough midwife first in Trust to be awarded PhD
- Heart shaped pillows donated for breast cancer patients
- Share your experiences of using GP (General Practice) services in the last six months
- Directors Update - August 2022
- Transfer of Crowborough Birthing Centre gets green light
- HRH Princess Alexandra visits hospital to mark the 70th Anniversary of the formation of the Friends of Eastbourne Hospitals
- Your views about GP services in Sussex
- Work to improve Outpatients area at Eastbourne DGH underway
- Have your say on council’s core offer
- Dietitians offer advice on maintaining good nutrition and hydration
- Research into the Immune Response to COVID-19 Infection launched in Brighton
- Register now for our 'One Year On - Staying Connected Care Home Webinar"
- Last few weeks to recognise outstanding care for the Peoples’ Choice Award
- East Sussex Healthcare Trust Performs well in National Lung Cancer Audit
- Have you had a test or scan at Bexhill Community Diagnostic Centre?
- Tell us your experiences of Adult Social Care Services
- Local watchdog organisation responds to Darren Grayson’s resignation
- Have your say on maternity services in East Sussex
- Healthwatch East Sussex March Newsletter
- Trust gets go ahead to work up plans to develop local hospitals
- Decision on future location of very specialist children’s cancer treatment centre
- Help build a health service fit for the future – Change NHS
- SECAmb clinicians teach first aid and life-saving skills at HMP High Down
- GP websites and messages could be improved says new Healthwatch report
- Seaford Health Hub
- Survey into experiences of hospital discharge
- Advice for family, friends and carers to support people with dementia admitted to hospital
- Care homes offering ‘safer, higher quality and more compassionate care’ following re-inspection by CQC
- Share your feedback on the draft East Sussex Health and Social Care Plan
- Spring Boosters for COVID-19: What you need to know
- Launching our new online Feedback Centre
- Raising Awareness about Dying Matters
- Looking after your mental wellbeing this winter
- Wave Of Light – Baby Loss Awareness Week 2023
- National Healthwatch Leaders to visit Sussex
- Kidney Cancer UK - Annual Patient Survey
- Share your feedback on the Sussex Health and Care Plan by 8th November!
- Our Director's Views: The Future of Community Hubs in East Sussex
- Changes to the Prescription Ordering Direct (POD) service are coming
- Stroke awareness event found two out of five had raised blood pressure
- Tough budget decisions – adult social care savings
- Havens residents concerned about impact of new housing on GPs
- East Sussex Community Voice (ESCV) are recruiting a Senior Engagement Officer
- Updated: Dentistry – A Healthwatch guide to your rights and accessing the treatment you need
- August 2023 NHS in Sussex advice and information for patients and the public during NHS doctors industrial action
- Independent living support and staying safe at home
- Read the Healthwatch East Sussex 2023-24 Annual Report
- New service to help frail people live independent lives
- Are you living with Physical Pain? How is it for you?
- Pharmacy opening times: Easter Bank Holiday 2024
- Tell us your experiences of Hospital-based Patient Advice and Liaison Services (PALS)
- NICE RECOMMEND EVERYONE WITH NEWLY DIAGNOSED BOWEL CANCER TO BE TESTED FOR LYNCH SYNDROME
- Friends donate Bladder Scanner
- Getting the right treatment at the right time in Sussex has just got easier
- New high tech drug cabinet in operating theatre
- NHS Dentistry - What you need to know
- 3Ts Hospital Redevelopment – Approval of the Full Business Case
- Our Director's Views: Face Masks and Coverings
- SECAmb success at equality and inclusion awards
- Consultant and Surgical Assessment Unit named best for surgical training
- East Sussex Community Voice (ESCV) has published a new report on how the NHS Volunteer Responders Scheme (NHSVRS) worked in Sussex during the pandemic
- Help with Healthcare Costs
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust to receive £1.7million funding to implement electronic prescribing
- Friends donate Theatre Light
- GPs in Sussex begin offering COVID-19 vaccine as part of the biggest NHS immunisation programme
- Healthwatch updates ESCC Councillor's on our recent activity
- SECAmb appoints new Medical Director
- CQC tell Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust to improve services
- Donation from Bede’s Prep School towards new CT scanner
- Improvements coming to Lewes Victoria Hospital
- Your experience of local health and care services during the Coronavirus crisis
- Keep warm this winter with a warm home check
- Help us help you get help from your GP practice
- New community diabetes service to launch
- PEOPLE’S REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCES OF NHS AND SOCIAL CARE SET OUT IN NEW REPORT TO MPs
- Supporting you during Lockdown 3
- Giving feedback takes a minute, but the impact could last a lifetime.
- Getting help with your mental health
- Work starts on £3m renovation of Sussex Eye Hospital
- CQC asks for views on future of quality regulation
- State of Care 2015/16 published
- Proposed new commissioning arrangements for CCGs
- SECAmb asks for public’s support as demand remains high
- Trust supporting ‘Shoctober’ and #findthedefib campaign
- Children at the Alex bowled over by Sussex Sharks
- Bowel Cancer Awareness Month
- Healthwatch East Sussex Public Reflection Survey
- Tells us your experiences of health and care in Eastbourne
- Save the Date: Healthwatch East Sussex Annual Event 2023
- Building work starts at the Park Centre to improve cancer care
- Chief Inspector of Hospitals recommends Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust is taken out of special measures
- Increasing COVID-19 Vaccination uptake - Small Grants
- Help the NHS help you over the June Bank Holiday Weekend
- First new technological defibrillator and pacemaker in South East fitted
- Tell us your experience of being seen by a Physician's Associate
- Big wins for SECAmb at the Brake Fleet Safety Awards 2016
- Top ten tips when accessing NHS dentistry
- SECAmb staff take a stand at Pride
- Health and Care Services: Tell us, tell others, make a difference
- Junior doctor industrial action - 11th to 13th April 2023
- Tell us your experience of using pharmacy services
- Patients and staff reunited at SECAmb’s sixth annual survivors’ event
- Survey of Maternity Services Users
- First in UK for new technological defibrillator
- When will families and friends be united with their loved one in care homes?
- Are you a young person living in Sussex? Become a Youth Consultant with NHS Sussex.
- Patient Lead Assessment of the Care Environment (PLACE) Programme September 2022
- Healthwatch East Sussex Primary Care Focus Group
- Healthwatch East Sussex: 2019-20 Annual Report released
- East Sussex Community Voice wins award for its work on the Public Reference Forum engaging with local people
- Keep warm this winter with a warm home check
- Interim Report into Digital Engagement Survey 2020: Preferences towards the future of Health & Social Care services in Sussex
- General Medical Council - Updating their consent guidance: Patient survey
- Healthwatch East Sussex sees increased demand for emergency health services across East Sussex
- The way health and care works across Sussex is changing in July 2022
- The Horder Centre receives “outstanding” rating after CQC inspection
- Independent Advocacy Services in East Sussex
- Are changes in the cost of living affecting your health and wellbeing?
- New ambulance centre to begin operations
- UroGynaecology Unit is first in Sussex to attained national accreditation
- Improvements to waiting room in Urology Investigation Suite
- Help NHS Sussex improve heart failure services in Sussex
- IT outage hits health and care services
- NHS in Sussex sets out advice for patients and the public during ambulance industrial action
- Volunteers Week 2023
- Public consultation on the future of Eastbourne Station Health Centre now open
- Seasonal vaccinations – COVID-19, flu and RSV
- Rockinghorse funds Reiki programme for young patients
- Stroke awareness event - Missed a beat?
- CQC inspections of some companies providing online primary care have found significant concerns about patient safety
- Ophthalmology Open Day – Great Success
- Important news about Crowborough Memorial Hospital
- Tell us about your experience of Emergency Paediatric care at Eastbourne District General Hospital
- Men’s Health Awareness Week 2024
- Healthwatch East Sussex press release - South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- Donation helps fund course to help people adjust to living with Type 1 Diabetes
- Junior doctors in England are expected to take industrial action over the festive period.
- Chief Inspector of Hospitals finds that Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust requires improvement
- Nursing staff win monthly award
- East Sussex Healthcare Trust shows improvement in maternity services
- Medication Passport launched
- Online booking and prescriptions at your GP surgery
- Is pain stopping you from loving your bed?
- COVID-19 vaccination scam alert
- Newly integrated service brings health visiting and children's centres together
- Join the East Sussex VCSE Alliance at their 2nd Annual Conference.
- Tell us your experiences of Eye Tests
- Hospital is pilot site for medical simulation training
- Changes to library opening hours
- Primary care extended access survey (22 January – 13 February 2018)
- Donation towards refurbishment of Maternity Bereavement Room
- Covid-19: Have your say about the future of health and social care services in Sussex
- Your views on Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS)
- Healthwatch East Sussex Hosts it 2024 Annual Event
- Post Critical Care Rehabilitation gets a boost
- Trust’s ‘Doctors’ Assistant’ project shortlisted for national BMJ Award
- Secretary of State visits East Sussex Healthcare Trust
- Information on health services for people arriving from Ukraine
- Book your place at our 2024 Annual Event
- NHS Sussex Community Ambassadors
- ESHT Staff Survey results show improvement
- Information on Coronavirus
- Trust replaces 256 beds at Conquest Hospital and Eastbourne DGH
- Local Health and Care Watchdog coming to the High Weald
- Experiences of dentistry in Sussex: HWiS Poll 2022-23
- ESHT Team Administrator wins Monthly Staff Award
- East Sussex people in the Coronavirus crisis: First findings released
- Update for patients at Cornwallis Surgery - Hastings
- Closure: Foxhill Medical Centre
- Hospital is a national site for Cardiology simulation training
- Experiences of NHS 111 vary significantly say new Healthwatch reports
- How to make cervical screening (a smear test) work for you
- General Outpatients Department wins monthly staff award
- New provider for maternity services in High Weald area
- NHS in Sussex launches the Autumn COVID-19 Booster Campaign
- Nominate a nurse for our East Sussex Better Together (ESBT) Awards
- New Non-Executive Directors for ESHT
- Use of monitoring system helps to save lives
- Healthwatch insight highlights pressures on GPs and A&E
- Director's Update October 2021
- Directors Update - March 2022
- Victoria Medical Centre: Change of opening hours at The Beacon Practice
- Improving urgent care: please take part in the survey
- East Sussex parents influence autism services with new report
- World Sepsis Day 2023
- NHS England – Cornwallis Surgery re-opens
- Carers Survey 2016
- ESHT Staff Survey results show improvement
- You can make a difference and improve health and care for people in your area
- Trust Board meeting
- Building work recommences on Radiotherapy Centre at Eastbourne DGH
- What Matters To You: new adult social care strategy for East Sussex
- East Sussex Community Voice are hosting an Open Office
- Healthwatch East Sussex findings feed into national report
- Trust responds to reports of swine flu in the Conquest Hospital
- Public invited to Big Conversation Event
- Sign up to the organ donor register
- Local Healthwatch push for openness around the Sustainability and Transformation Planning for Sussex and East Surrey
- Kent and Medway Stroke Services Consultation
- Trust rated Good by CQC - Outstanding for ‘Care’ and ‘Effective’
- Accessing Health and Care Services over the festive period
- Healthwatch in Sussex shares public experiences of dentistry with Parliamentary inquiry
- Care of cancer patients praised
- Understanding patient and family/friend carer experience of rapid COVID-19 hospital discharge
- Sussex Air Quality Service for Sussex
- Self Care Week – Take Control Of Your Back Pain
- Vacancy - Could you be our next Executive Director?
- Dying Matters Awareness Week 2024
- Extra reminders reduce number of missed appointments
- Young adults with a Learning Difficulty or Disability graduate from Project SEARCH
- Tell East Sussex County Council Your Views on Accessing Community Mental Health Support
- East Sussex Special Education Needs and Disabilities Inspection Survey
- New Medical Director
- Local MP visits Urology department
- Get the help you need with the dental helpline
- New Non-Executive Director
- New area for Critical Care relatives
- England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals rates Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust as Outstanding
- Tell us your experiences of hospital outpatient appointment letters
- Revamp Improves Ward For Patients
- Hand Hygiene Promoted at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- New Healthwatch in Sussex survey on Patient Transport Services
- Healthwatch East Sussex continues to be concerned at the recent media attention related to the non-emergency Patient Transport Services managed by Coperforma
- Local MP visits Physiotherapy team
- ‘Miracle’ teenager reunited with ambulance team
- Do you want to make a difference?
- Have your say in shaping future NHS dermatology services
- Local NHS is looking for people to become a Governor
- Matthew Kershaw to leave Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals
- Schools and children’s groups urged to sign up to learn life-saving skills
- Healthwatch Kent speak to South East Coast Ambulance Trust
- Maternity services at the Conquest Hospital, Hastings reviewed by Healthwatch
- Tell us your experiences of NHS health and care in Sussex
- More join organ donor register at 999 weekend
- Hydrotherapy pool celebrates 20 years
- Patients across Sussex report improving service
- Care Quality Commission (CQC) downgrades local NHS Trust, but care remains “outstanding”
- CQC wants your views on its vision for the future
- First NHS hospital in Sussex & Kent to offer innovative new treatment for enlarged prostate
- Healthwatch’s response to the latest CQC report on Royal Sussex County Hospital (14.2.24)
- Join our East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust - Volunteer Task Group
- Complaints - A Healthwatch East Sussex Guide to making a complaint about Health or Social Care
- People urged to support the local NHS ahead of joint historic industrial action
- Public invited to Big Conversation Event in Hailsham
- Trust achieves full compliance for Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response
- NHS calls on community to help them meet winter challenges
- ESHT Recruitment Days to attract more Facilities staff
- SECAmb’s ePCR iPad project begins further rollout
- Conquest Hospital Radio launches new online service
- More join organ donor register at 999 weekend in Eastbourne
- East Sussex health and social care: an aligned vision in place but further work required says CQC review
- Healthwatch East Sussex – COVID-19 Survey Press Release
- People urged to continue to support the NHS as leaders prepare for longest period of industrial action to date
- What people in Sussex told Healthwatch about their views on the NHS Long Term Plan
- ‘Tell Us/Ask Us’: Experiences of Health and Care during Lockdown 2
- Nurse retires after 51 years
- High number of healthcare staff vaccinated against flu
- Children’s ward benefiting from advanced clinical monitoring system
- East Sussex Healthcare Trust announces new Director of Nursing
- Celebrating ten years of Healthwatch
- Last chance to tell us your views on COVID-19 Vaccinations: One week to go
- NHS launches spring booster vaccinations
- New Executive Chair of Sussex and East Surrey Sustainability Transformation Partnership (STP)
- Interested in volunteering with Healthwatch East Sussex?
- Eastbourne Listening Tour: Launch Event
- Volunteer with Healthwatch East Sussex
- Specialist Nurse recognised for lifetime achievement
- Chief Inspector of Hospitals recommends South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust is placed into special measures
- People urged to “save emergency services for saving lives”
- ‘Think Twice’ about where to go for urgent care this summer
- Patients benefit from improved stroke service
- Care of cancer patients praised
- Listening to the Havens - One Year On
- Cancer Services in Sussex during COVID-19 Webinar - What this means for you.
- Are you struggling to access health or care services? Do you have positive feedback or ideas for improvements to share?
- Healthwatch East Sussex attends the East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Patient Experience Event
- System upgrade team wins monthly staff award
- Healthwatch East Sussex's host organisation, East Sussex Community Voice, is recruiting new Board members
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust – Annual General Meeting 2023
- New Doctors recruited in Emergency Medicine
- NHS 111 Survey
- Hastings Community Support Service rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission
- People are being asked to protect themselves and others by wearing a mask in healthcare settings
- Let's Get You Home video launched
- Your guide to Shingles
- Schoolboy sells his toys to donate money to children’s ward
- Cancer Services during COVID-19
- What Is Your Experience of Using NHS 111 in East Sussex?
- Children’s very specialist cancer service consultation feedback report published
- Project SEARCH enters its third year
- Demelza offers a community hospice at home service for children and young people up to the age of 19, providing therapies, respite and end of life care in the comfort of a child’s own home across East Sussex.
- Time to Celebrate…
- We are keen to find out more about what you think about patient transport services in Sussex
- Pharmacy opening times: Easter Bank Holiday 2023
- NHS Sussex and Healthwatch in Sussex announce a new role supporting our strategy for Improving Lives Together
- Samaritans Awareness Day 2024
- Changes to GP services in Hastings and St Leonards
- Your questions about the Non-Emergency Patient Transport Service (NEPTS) put to the provider
- Dietitians support national Nutrition and Hydration week
- Thousands of carers in East Sussex urged to take a summer holiday
- Have your say about the future of health and social care services for young people in Sussex!
- News on our Hospital Trust during the current crisis
- GPs' collective action
- SECamb announces appointment of new Chief Executive
- Independent review into the state of residential care in East Sussex
- Have your say on the savings proposals for Adult Social Care services
- East Sussex COVID-19 Vaccination Survey
- Breakfast in the discharge lounge helps to free up beds early in the day
- New health records storage facility officially opened
- SECAmb thanks public and staff for support during busy festive period
- Ambulance service recognition for Ashford youngster
- CCG helps Hastings GP patients get online
- CQC rate Air Ambulance Operations Headquarters in Kent as Outstanding.
- Community Hubs in East Sussex – Collaborative potential or one-off emergency response?
- Updated: Dentistry – A Healthwatch guide to your rights and accessing the treatment you need
- Healthwatch in Sussex helps patients deliver early impact by directly engaging patients with the NHS
- Healthwatch East Sussex calls on citizens to take up leadership roles in the NHS
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Annual General Meeting
- Local Cardiology Consultant appointed as Visiting Professor
- Be a Flu Champion
- South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust Issued a Warning Notice
- CQC praises significant improvements at ESHT and issues improved rating
- CQC takes action to protect the welfare of people through cancellation of Kent care home owner’s registration
- Annual Baby Remembrance Service
- First winners of ESHT's ‘Clean Care Award’
- Nominate a nurse for our East Sussex Better Together Above and Beyond Award
- ESHT Trust Board meeting
- NHS England publishes ten year plan setting out priorities for the future.
- Visiting Care Homes during COVID-19
- Tell us your experiences of Long COVID in Sussex
- NHS Help Us Help You - Abdominal and Urological Symptoms of Cancer
- A multi-agency training exercise happening at Eastbourne and Lewes hospitals
- New Crisis Response Service launched
- COVID-19 Surveys 2020: One year on
- Healthwatch publishes findings from pilot into Hospital Discharge Wellbeing Checks in East Sussex
- Reward for artistic work making ultrasound room more inviting for children
- Do you want to have a say on how you think your NHS Health Data should be shared?
- Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
- Local watchdog supports findings in the latest CQC report
- Eastbourne Listening Tour: The Big ‘Health and Care’ Question Time
- NHS in Sussex advice and information for patients and the public during NHS doctors industrial action
- Trust hosts first national LGBT conference ahead of another strong turnout at Pride
- Testing for Covid-19 – What you need to know
- What is measles and who can get the vaccine?
- Carers Week 2024
- Review assures quality of administration in Outpatients department
- Equality Delivery System 2 – Invitation to Grading Workshop
- Children and their families make ‘Fruity’ Friday a success
- Read our latest insight on health and care issues
- Results of the GP Patient Survey 2024: Find out how your GP surgery performed
- Care Quality Commission rates Hospice in the Weald Outstanding
- Lord Lieutenant opens new Friends Flower Shop
- Director's Update September 2021
- ‘Your Voice Counts: Celebrating 10 years of Healthwatch’ – Feedback from the Healthwatch East Sussex Annual Event 2023
