SASH Blog

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) is reminding people to think twice before going to A&E over the Easter holiday period. Dr Ben Mearns, chief of medicine at SASH, which runs East Surrey Hospital, said: “If you become ill over the Easter holiday there are many NHS servi

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) has opened a new purpose-built MRI department at East Surrey Hospital in partnership with InHealth. It boasts two state-of-the-art Siemens Sola MRI scanners as well as one of the UK’s first ceiling mounted MRI injector systems. The new sca

Michael Wilson CBE has today announced that he will retire later this year after serving 11 years as chief executive of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) and 41 years in the NHS. In his time as chief executive, SASH has been transformed from an organisation with significan

Michael Wilson CBE, chief executive at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH), has been named as one of the Health Service Journal (HSJ) 50 top leaders of NHS Trusts. The prestigious HSJ list assesses NHS leaders against three main criteria: the personal example set by the chie

Staff at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) have again ranked the organisation among the best NHS trusts in the country in the annual national survey of NHS employees. The Trust’s staff rated the organisation fourth best acute trust in the country when asked if they would r

In the first month of 2021, East Surrey Hospital received over 1,000 heartfelt messages and ‘virtual hugs’ from loved ones to patients receiving care in hospital. Friends and relatives have been able to keep in touch via a dedicated email service, developed during the height of the co

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) is calling on local nurses who have left the NHS in recent years to join its staff bank to continue the fight against coronavirus. Jane Dickson, chief of nursing and midwifery at SASH, said: “In the Spring we were so fortunate that a numbe

Patient-facing staff at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust and care home workers have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as the programme launched at East Surrey Hospital. The first vaccines were given on Monday 4 January 2020, with 975 doses of the Pfizer / BioNTec

Local people in Surrey and Sussex have helped to support patients living with dementia watch live music via tablet devices while they’re in hospital. Thanks to generous donations to SASH Charity, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has piloted an adapted programme from Wishing Well

Well done and thank you to our Crawley Day Surgery Unit (CDSU) team who last week moved back to Crawley Hospital after being redeployed to East Surrey Hospital in March this year to help with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) effort. At the beginning of the first wave of the pandemic, the CD