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National COVID-19 restrictions are due to be lifted in England from Thursday, 27 January, and although there will be lots of changes outside healthcare settings, all our existing Infection Prevention and Control guidance remains the same inside our hospitals. We are still asking all patients, visitors, and our staff, to: Wear a surgical face mask… Read more »
Patients with suspected prostate cancer will now benefit from a faster diagnosis following the introduction of joint consultant and nurse-led biopsy service. The service at Ipswich Hospital will mean patients can be treated as an outpatient and have the faster procedure under a local anaesthetic with “accurate targeting of abnormal areas of the prostate”. Katie… Read more »
Losing a baby is devastating, but the pain and worry doesn’t disappear when a family is expecting again. To help support mums-to-be a specialist clinic has been running at Ipswich Hospital as part of a research study, with regular scans, the same clinical team and on-hand reassurance should the family need it. The rainbow clinic… Read more »
The new £5.3million Breast Care Centre at Ipswich Hospital is on track to be built this year. Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity have confirmed they have just over £500,000 to raise for The Blossom Appeal and building work is due to commence on site in the spring. The new state-of-the-art centre is to be… Read more »
From today, Monday 17 January, the corridor leading to Trauma and Orthopaedics (T&O) from the former south entrance at Ipswich Hospital will be out of use for two weeks. This is a link corridor which takes people from the south corridor (where most of the hospital wards are) to the T&O department, via the old entrance and… Read more »
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) is asking patients, carers, the public and staff to help choose its key areas for improvement (which are also known as ‘quality priorities’) for 2022/23. The Trust, which runs Ipswich and Colchester hospitals as well as a range of community services, has developed nine priorities and… Read more »
The Orthotics department at Ipswich Hospital is relocating to the MSK Physiotherapy Outpatient department from Monday 17 January. The change will see the service move to a newly refurbished clinic room. Patients will continue using entrance 6 while entrance 5 is temporarily closed, and will be asked to let staff know they have arrived for… Read more »
Visiting guidance in maternity units at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) is being updated to keep expectant parents, babies, and staff safe. The Trust’s maternity teams are now caring for more pregnant people who have tested positive for COVID-19. They are also seeing an increasing number of positive cases among pregnant… 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 »
A Colchester school boy has encouraged young people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect their friends and family while getting his all-important second jab. Children aged 12 to 15 are being vaccinated at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) over the festive bank holidays. Dedicated family clinics, running today and tomorrow… Read more »
If mum Samantha had one message to someone expecting a baby it would be “get the vaccine”. The mum-of-three never imagined she would give birth to her third baby while fighting for her life in a coma after catching COVID-19. She has no memory of her baby Violet being born via emergency c-section at 27… Read more »
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) has taken the difficult decision to temporarily close Harwich Urgent Treatment Centre at weekends with immediate effect. This is because of staffing issues and to keep everybody safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. People with minor illnesses and injuries can still drop into Harwich UTC for help… Read more »