Hospital archive resources
The Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT) is on the shortlist for a national award. The REACT team are a finalist in the 2019 Health Service Journal awards, in the ‘community or primary care service redesign’ category. The REACT team helps prevent an average 616 hospital admissions, and 472 emergency department (ED) attendances at Ipswich… Read more »
People with an interest in healthcare are being invited to a special meeting to hear more about developments at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) and the big difference which robots are making to patient care. ESNEFT’s annual members’ meeting takes place at Ipswich Hospital next Thursday (29 August). It will give… Read more »
Patients and their loved ones at Colchester Hospital will soon be able to benefit from more than treatment throughout their cancer journey. Work is underway now to build a new cancer wellbeing centre. The centre will offer counselling and support services for patients, carers and families. The wellbeing centre is being built in a… Read more »
Our hospital support group which helps patients in Ipswich and east Suffolk with skin cancer is going from strength to strength. The Skin Cancer Support Group was launched at Ipswich Hospital in 2011, providing patients who have had a skin cancer the opportunity to meet others with similar symptoms. The group meet on the first… Read more »
People living with and beyond cancer will be able to access support and information at a free event in Colchester next month organised by East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT). The Living With and Beyond Cancer Health and Wellbeing Workshop on Monday, 16 September is aimed at cancer patients, and carers,… Read more »
Ipswich Hospital’s teenage and young adult cancer nurse specialist is now able to access extra training and funding to further improve care thanks to a new partnership with Teenage Cancer Trust. Dan Jolley’s nursing role has been adopted by the charity, giving him access to additional resources, advice and education while opening up a wider… Read more »
A surgeon at Colchester Hospital is at the forefront of teaching keyhole surgery techniques to clinicians around the world. Clinical lead for surgery and consultant colorectal surgeon Sharmila Gupta is helping to roll out nationally accredited training programmes in laparoscopic (keyhole) colorectal surgery all over the globe in a bid to share best practice and… Read more »
Neill Moloney, Managing Director at East Suffolk and North East Essex Foundation Trust which runs Ipswich Hospital said: ‘Yesterday evening the major power cut across parts of England and Wales also affected Ipswich Hospital, where we experienced a small power issue on site. The emergency generators at the hospital all worked, but a circuit breaker… Read more »
As work to improve and extend the front of Colchester Hospital gathers pace, 49 modular units will be arriving on the Turner Road site over the next seven days and lifted into position like building blocks by two large cranes. This work will see the new single-storey Urgent Treatment Centre in front of the existing Emergency Department, along with… Read more »
A range of new equipment which makes it easier for clinicians to examine their patients’ eyes has been introduced at Ipswich Hospital thanks to a donation from a charitable fund. The ophthalmology department was presented with £37,000 following a successful bid to the Fonnereau Road Health Foundation Fund, which provides grants for equipment which… Read more »
Local residents are welcome to come and find out more about the urgent treatment centre plans at Ipswich Hospital at an information event today (Monday 29 July 2019). We will have colleagues on hand to answer your questions at the hospital’s Courtyard Restaurant, from 4pm to 8pm.
Lee Tyler, managing director of Stroods Specialist Contractors who are carrying out the work. Stephen Pullen, deputy pharmacy production manager at Colchester Hospital. ESNEFT Chief Executive Nick Hulme. Head of pharmacy quality assurance, Professor Oweikumo Eradiri. Head of capital developments at Colchester Hospital, John Fulcher. Work has begun to build a new specialist drugs unit… Read more »