Everyone accessing or visiting healthcare settings must continue to wear a face covering and follow social distancing rules. COVID restrictions will end in many settings outside of healthcare in England from Monday 19 July. However, Public Health England’s infection prevention control

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

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

The intensive care unit (ICU) team at East Surrey Hospital have been given special praise for saving the life of a local doctor who has recovered from coronavirus. In late March, Dr Zack Fang started to experience symptoms which resulted in him needing hospital treatment. He described

Hundreds of local people have been able to continue having hospital appointments thanks to a significant increase in video consultations at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH). All hospitals in the NHS had to postpone many face-to-face appointments during the coronavirus out

A father who spent over fifty days in intensive care with COVID-19 has praised his care and urged local people to continue to follow national guidance to prevent the spread of the virus. Stephen King returned home last week in time to spend Father’s Day with his wife and two sons afte

A local police officer from Merstham has given up his time to help East Surrey Hospital staff get the right protection against coronavirus. Steve Norton, 48, has been a police officer for 15 years, serving in Surrey and now with the Metropolitan Police Service’s specialist search unit

We would like to say an enormous thank you to all of the people and organisations that have supported us during these challenging times. We continue to have amazing levels of support from our local residents and communities who have supported us in so many ways including crafting, bak

We are very sad to confirm that Peter Hart passed away on 12 May having tested positive for coronavirus. Peter, whose 52nd birthday was on 12 May, was an extremely skilled and dedicated emergency care practitioner. Previously a paramedic with South East Coast Ambulance Service, Peter