A committed team at East Surrey Hospital who implemented a multidisciplinary team (MDT) follow-up clinic for patients admitted to intensive care (ICU) with COVID-19 have won a Kent, Surrey and Sussex (KSS) Respiratory Collaborative Quality Improvement Project Award for their hard work

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

Angela Stevenson has been appointed to the position of chief executive of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) and will take on the role following Michael Wilson CBE’s planned retirement later this year. Angela has been chief operating officer at SASH since 2015, having previ

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

Last week, to coincide with World Mental Health Day, over 40 experts from Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) and Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SABP) came together every day to plan how services can improve now and in the future. Read this joint blog i

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

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) has successfully recruited its 100th patient for the RECOVERY Trial, a study which aims to compare several different treatments that may be beneficial for people with coronavirus (COVID-19). The study, led by the University of Oxford, is o