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A new app at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) helped to keep one couple connected with their newborn twins when they were being treated on different neonatal units nearly 60 miles apart during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. vCreate, which allows videos and messages to be securely shared with new parents, has… Read more »
Patients, carers and the public have been invited to join the next virtual meeting of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust’s (ESNEFT) Council of Governors which takes place next week. The meeting will be held on Thursday (6 August) via Microsoft Teams. It will give the governors the chance to hear more about… Read more »
Children with lifelong neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism and cerebral palsy will soon benefit from ground-breaking studies carried out closer to home after East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) launched an innovative new research centre. The Synapse Centre for Neurodevelopment brings together paediatricians, speech and language specialists, clinical psychologists, physiotherapists and researchers… Read more »
Plans to create a state-of-the-art elective care centre (ECC) in Colchester for patients who need planned orthopaedic surgery such as hip and knee replacements have today been given the green light. The governing bodies of Ipswich and East Suffolk and North East Essex clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) approved the proposal, which was drawn up by… Read more »
Expecting a baby over the last few months has been a worrying time for families, but as five new mums explained, giving birth in a pandemic was actually a really positive experience. The mums, who all gave birth in ESNEFT hospitals, shared their stories of what it was really like, even with the COVID-19 restrictions… Read more »
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) is easing visiting restrictions further in maternity services to support pregnant women and their families. Some restrictions have remained in place for everyone’s safety due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. However, they have been under constant review so that changes can be made when it is… Read more »
The governing bodies of NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk and NHS North East Essex clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will meet next week to decide on a proposal to create an elective care centre for patients who need planned orthopaedic surgery. The CCGs will hold the extraordinary meeting via Zoom on Tuesday (14 July) to discuss… Read more »
A man who battled a collapsed lung, pneumonia and COVID-19 said he feels very lucky and grateful to the NHS staff who saved his life. Paul Godfrey developed COVID-19 in March and became very poorly with what he thought was a chest infection. Despite taking antibiotics and steroids, he wasn’t recovering. When he finally… Read more »
More than 20,000 patients and frontline workers have been checked for COVID-19 antibodies in less than six weeks after East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) developed a fast self-service testing system. The trust, which runs Colchester and Ipswich hospitals as well as a variety of community health services, set up the new… Read more »
A grateful patient has shared his thanks to teams at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, and the NHS as a whole, after he received a speedy diagnosis for a potentially life-threatening condition during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Edmund Crosthwaite, 30, said he was “lucky” to have been diagnosed with an internal carotid… Read more »
Community staff working for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) are reminding patients of the extra steps they are taking to keep everyone safe when they visit to provide care at home. Nursing and therapy staff have outlined the precautions which they are taking to minimise the spread of coronavirus. This includes… Read more »
COVID-19, staff wellbeing and infection prevention are on the agenda for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust’s (ESNEFT) next board meeting, which takes place on Thursday (2 July). The board will meet between 9.30am and 11.30am via Microsoft Teams to maintain social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. Members of the public can submit… Read more »