Health

A Sussex hospital trust still has £100million to pay in PFI payments for a Children’s Hospital that cost £36million to build.

A Heathfield woman is preparing for a two month trip to Senegal aboard a charity-run hospital ship.

The main phone number at Eastbourne’s DGH is set to change.

A Polegate doctor is leading the call for a new practice to be built in the area – as a branch of the practice is having to close this month.

A missing Lewes man has been found dead in a hotel.

Junior doctors working in East Sussex have built up a fund of more than £14,000 as a result of fines for contract breaches. 

A hospital which treats people from Eastbourne with orthopaedic problems is marking World Arthritis Day with free consultations throughout October.

A Crowborough doctor has been shortlisted for the national Our Health Heroes Award.

A Sussex teenager who underwent cancer treatment, strokes and surgery as a child has become a charity ambassador to help others like her.

A dad had to ‘catch’ his newborn son while driving as his wife gave birth on the way to hospital.

Commonly-used moisturising creams could easily catch fire if exposed to a flame, the fire and rescue service is warning.

A Hailsham husband and father has died after taking a mix of prescription drugs which killed him in his sleep, an Eastbourne inquest heard yesterday (Thursday).

There were heated scenes at County Hall this week as Lewes district councillors heard from both sides on plans to bring a new health hub to Seaford.

Five fun and feisty female vicars in Sussex have had a twirl in tutus to support Stand Up to Cancer, a joint fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4.

A 90-year-old Seaford woman who was pronounced dead after waiting almost two hours for an ambulance was ‘failed’ by a system under huge pressure to be as efficient as possible, a coroner has ruled.

The Eastbourne and Lewes Walkfest is celebrating the start of Autumn in East Sussex with a variety of events designed to highlight their unique beauty.

Eighty-nine people ended up in hospital due to flu in Eastbourne, Hailsham, and Seaford last year.

St Peter and St James Hospice is looking for some brave local souls to walk across burning coals to raise funds for the North Chailey-based charity.