Hospital archive resources
Resident doctors (formerly known as junior doctors) in England will be taking part in strike action from 7am on Friday 25 July until 7am on Wednesday 30 July. We have tried and tested plans in place to manage industrial action at ESNEFT. There may be some disruption, though, for our patients and staff. ESNEFT Chief… Read more »
Staff from across East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) have been taking extra steps to tackle the inequalities which mean that some people have poorer health outcomes and a shorter life expectancy than others. The Trust’s health inequalities team was set up two years ago to steer work to address the preventable… Read more »
Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales has heard first-hand from patients and staff about the healing power of nature during a visit hosted by East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT). The Princess joined patients, staff and volunteers in the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Wellbeing Garden at Colchester Hospital on Wednesday 2… Read more »
Find out more about diabetes prevention and treatment at a health talk by our internationally renowned consultant Professor Gerry Rayman. Professor Rayman is Consultant Diabetologist at the Diabetes Centre at Ipswich Hospital, NHS Diabetes Clinical Lead for inpatient diabetes and Chair of Diabetes UK’s Diabetes Research study group for acute care. His work has led… Read more »
Our estates and facilities teams work around the clock to keep our buildings – and everything within them – safe, clean, secure and warm so we can deliver the best care possible to our patients. Today we celebrate just some of those colleagues on National Healthcare Estates and Facilities Day. But all of them, wherever… Read more »
A patient living with cancer has shared how meditation sessions run by an ESNEFT volunteer help her. Cornelia Starke makes a weekly visit to the Cancer Wellbeing Centre at Colchester Hospital where volunteer Colin Tofts performs gong baths for patients. A gong bath involves different sounds, tones and vibrations created by striking different-sized gongs which… Read more »
The first babies are set to be born in Clacton’s new £1.4million new maternity unit. A state-of-the-art birthing suite is now open at Clacton Hospital, replacing the former facilities within the Coastal Birthing Unit, which needed modernising. Based in the new and improved maternity unit, the birthing suite is on the first floor of the… Read more »
No two stories about people’s pathways into nursing are the same. Everyone’s story is different. Being a nurse doesn’t have to have been your dream career since childhood – ambitions and goals change. Being a nurse doesn’t have to be what you’ve always done for a job – people train and re-train. Being a nurse… Read more »
“I was climbing the walls for a cigarette while in hospital”, said Donna. “I told the staff ‘if you don’t give me something I’m going to go outside and smoke.’ ” Donna, 62, had smoked for 45 years, starting when she was a teenager. Having been admitted to Colchester Hospital with breathing problems related to… Read more »
The iconic extreme abseil returned to the Ipswich Hospital at the weekend which saw 178 brave participants abseil from 135ft. Organised by the Colchester & Ipswich Hospitals Charity, the adrenaline-fuelled event has so far raised over £68,733 to enhance patient experience across Colchester and Ipswich Hospital’s and the community sites run by East Suffolk and… Read more »
Before the millennium everyone was panicking about the millennium bug and whether computer systems would work when the clocks went past midnight. And for Margaret Clarke, a midwife at Ipswich Hospital, she was worried it might affect the computers and systems they used in the Maternity department. Margaret was on the day shift having recently… Read more »
The Trust chaplaincy team and the Armed Forces Network will be holding services to commemorate Victory in Europe (VE) Day, on 8 May. The ESNEFT Lamp Light of Peace commemorations will be held at Colchester Hospital, by the flagpole, and at Ipswich Hospital in the remembrance garden, next to the education centre. Patients, visitors, ESNEFT… Read more »