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

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

You could win a signed 2020 England Rugby shirt, personally donated by Anthony Watson and signed by members of the England Six Nations Team 2020 by entering a special prize draw to raise money for SASH Charity. All monies raised will help services go further for patients and families

A new exhibition of illustrations has been installed at East Surrey Hospital to raise awareness of the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Many people think that Parkinson’s, an incurable degenerative condition, is just tremor and slowness of movement, but there are more than 40 possible

Dear Editors, Every day in recent weeks we have seen many negative stories in the media about the unprecedented high demand on NHS services across the country and the pressures this has created. I am very concerned that these stories could encourage people to believe that the NHS is l

Results from the national NHS Staff Survey have ranked Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust in the top 20% of hospitals nationally as a place to work and receive treatment and also as somewhere patients receive quality treatment and care. Staff satisfaction scores, along with staff

The NHS, social care and public health in Sussex and East Surrey have published their Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP). The plan outlines how local health and social care services will work together to transform and integrate services to meet the changing needs of all of t

Michael Wilson, chief executive of Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH), which runs East Surrey Hospital, received the award of Commander of the British Empire (CBE) from Her Majesty the Queen at an investiture ceremony held at Buckingham Palace this week (8 November). Michae