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A footpath diversion will be in place in car park F at Ipswich Hospital for two weeks 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 16), we are… 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 »
The new issue of our ESNEFT magazine is out now. Download your copy of the magazine here.
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 »
A number of parking spaces in Ipswich Hospital’s visitor car park F* will be temporarily closed next week (Monday 12 April to Thursday 15 April). The closure of approximately 30 spaces is to allow for the installation of new technology for an easier-to-use parking system at the hospital. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. Most… Read more »
New Chief Nurse Giles Thorpe joined the Trust in November, taking on the role before the second wave of Coronavirus (COVID-19) hit. He’s shared his hopes, passions and how he wants to provide the best care for patients while supporting staff in an honest and open interview. With a 20-year career in the NHS, beginning… Read more »
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) are preparing two planning applications for a proposed Elective Orthopaedic Centre and Northern Approach Road access at Colchester Hospital, Turner Road, Colchester. The public is invited to comment on the development proposals in a consultation between 1 March and 12 March 2021. The detailed elements of… Read more »
We’ve some projects underway at Ipswich Hospital in the coming days which visitors to our sites may need to be aware of. We apologise for disruption, which teams are working hard to keep to a minimum. Thanks to our Estates and Facilities team for all their hard work. A new MRI scanner is arriving at… Read more »
Problems with an NHS supplier Roche has led to a temporary shortage in some of the chemicals used to process test results. Roche are working urgently to resolve this. All tests for patients across Suffolk and north east Essex are continuing as normal so please attend your appointment as requested. If your appointment needs to… Read more »