Health

Loneliness Awareness Week was started by Marmalade Trust as the first inclusive campaign to raise awareness of loneliness among everyone in the UK.

More than six months since the closure of day care services at Warwick House in Seaford, it is clear that there are long-term consequences.

Two local MPs have banded together to call for a new medical centre for the Mornings Mill Farm site.

The Department for Work and Pensions is forcing a terminally ill man to reapply for his benefits - despite having just six months to live.

East Sussex’s two partnerships aimed at integrating health and social care are set to merge.

Eastbourne residents have taken to social media to express their sadness following the news The Esperance Hospital is to close in July.

The East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust admitted errors after a mum suffered a devastating stroke after test results were misinterpreted, her family’s lawyers said.

A charity netball tournament last weekend was in aid of a little boy suffering from a desperately rare condition.

East Sussex County Council has apologised for causing ‘unnecessary distress’ to a family seeking support for their mother’s nursing care.

A baby food producer has recalled a batch of one of its products as it may contain small pieces of blue rubber.

East Sussex is one of the worst areas in Europe for disease-carrying ticks, a new study has revealed.

A charity netball tournament this weekend will help a little boy from Sussex who is suffering from a desperately rare condition.

A brand new multi-use games area has been opened by the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust at its medium security hospital at Hellingly.

A nurse slapped a wheelchair-bound dementia patient at a care home in a ‘deplorable’ abuse of position.

A new urine test for cervical cancer could be game-changing for more than 30,000 women in East Sussex who missed their last smear test.

More than 2,000 people in East Sussex are users of heroin and crack cocaine, according to newly-released figures.

Cooking is one of Britain’s favourite pastimes – we share pictures online, make food for our friends and family and consume cooking content at an astronomical rate.

The UK’s leading HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust has partnered with a team of students to launch a three-part HIV awareness documentary entitled Living Positive.