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NHS teams across the east of England and the rest of the country have started vaccinating people against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) for the first time. RSV, a leading cause of infant mortality around the world, is a common cause of coughs and colds but it can lead to severe lung infections like pneumonia and infant bronchiolitis…. Read more »
Good End of Life Care for All East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) has published a new strategy which sets out how it will provide the highest quality care and support to every patient reaching the end of their life, together with their families and carers. Called “Good End of Life Care… Read more »
The families and carers of patients in the last days of life are being reminded of the support which is available to them from East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust. A new poster called “how we can SUPPORT you” has been circulated to the wards to remind loved ones of the help which… Read more »
You may have seen in the news that the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced its members will be taking strike action on Thursday 15 December and Tuesday 20 December. If you are coming to one of our hospitals on these dates, please make sure you attend your hospital appointment or operation unless you… Read more »
Nick Hulme, Chief Executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, has been asked to take on an additional role to provide senior support to the new NHS integrated care boards (ICBs) in Suffolk and north east Essex and Norfolk and Waveney, and to Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT). Nick will… Read more »
ESNEFT email accounts are now secure for person identifiable data (PID). The ESNEFT email system has now been accredited as ‘secure’ for sending and receiving person identifiable data (PID) by NHS Digital. This means that ESNEFT staff no longer need NHSMail to send secure email and will be phasing out NHSMail accounts at ESNEFT over… Read more »
A footpath diversion will be in place in car park F at Ipswich Hospital for two weeks in February 2022 to help pedestrians while some building work takes place. This is the patient and visitor car park straight ahead as vehicles drive onto the hospital site from the main Heath Road entrance. From Wednesday (February… Read more »
Visiting is being suspended in all hospitals run by East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) from New Year’s Day (Saturday 1 January). This is due to the high number of COVID-19 infections in the community and the increasing number of patients with COVID-19 in the Trust’s hospitals. This will affect Colchester Hospital,… Read more »
Patients will be able to have one visitor to see them while they are in hospitals run by East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) again. It comes after a large majority of visiting had to be suspended due to an increase in COVID-19 cases, both in the Trust’s hospitals and in the… Read more »
Visiting is being temporarily suspended in all hospitals run by East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT). The difficult decision was taken to temporarily suspend visiting in Suffolk hospitals on Wednesday, 27 October, and it now needs to be extended to north east Essex. Visiting will therefore be suspended in the Trust’s north east… Read more »
Visiting will be suspended for three weeks in east and west Suffolk hospitals from Wednesday 27 October. This is due to the high number of COVID-19 infections in the community, in Ipswich in particular, and the increasing number of patients with COVID-19 in both Ipswich and West Suffolk hospitals. The changes will apply at Ipswich… Read more »
With a passion for people, a commitment to the NHS and a strong belief in staff feeling supported and having a sense of purpose, new ESNEFT Director Kate Read has hit the ground running since her arrival in January. Kate, the Trust’s new Director of People and Organisational Development, says she’s been made to feel… Read more »