Health

Sussex’s ambulance service has made ‘excellent progress’ and is due to exit special measures, according to health regulators.

An inadequate Burgess Hill care home which remains in special measures is ‘making improvements already’, its new care manager has said.

I have worked in nutrition and health globally for 35 years, including with the World Health Organization.

All East Sussex staff working for a patient transport services provider could be made redundant.

A Seaford care home has been rated ‘good’ by the Care Quality Commission.

A 61-year-old father has died after taking a cocktail of drugs at his flat in Newhaven.

A new five-year contract to provide Sussex’s NHS 111 non-emergency telephone service has been awarded to the region’s ambulance service.

Calls for additional air quality monitoring in Hailsham have been made.

The brand new health hub proposed in Seaford to meet the growing population and increasing demands on the town’s GP services has hit the headlines recently.

With temperatures expected to rise well above 30C this week, St John Ambulance is sharing some simple, but life saving, first aid tips to help keep communities safe in the sun.

In an attempt to find alternatives to plastic straws, some companies are choosing to use straws made out of discarded shells.

Campaigners have called on Lewes District Council to rethink proposals to build a new health hub in Seaford.

The family of a man who collapsed at a cricket match say the actions of his fellow players saved his life.

An award-winning educational programme aiming to create a new generation of health staff who are more understanding of dementia needs your help.

Doctors surgeries in Seaford are at ‘full capacity’ and need a new health hub to continue in future, GPs told Lewes councillors this week. 

A senior NHS leader has faced questions on proposals for major changes to the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in East Sussex.

Public Health England (PHE) has confirmed five cases of measles in Sussex – and has written to local schools and nurseries in a bid to prevent further cases.