Patients, visitors and staff are invited to our virtual Kaizen open day event at East Surrey Hospital, run by Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) on Thursday 24 August 2021. Registration is from 10 – 10.05am and the event closes at 3.15pm. Objectives That all participa

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) 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

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

In recognition of hidden disabilities, Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SASH) are now part of the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Scheme; an initiative which provides a subtle, visual indication that somebody has a hidden disability and may require some extra, help, time or assis