Covid update – No visitors, please
In line with national trends, the Omicron variant of the coronavirus led to a sharp rise in positive tests over the Christmas and New Year period in the East Sussex NHS Healthcare region (Hastings, Rother, Wealden, Lewes and Eastbourne) but,…
Covid Winter Plan
For East Sussex: Vax and vax again Figures announced last week by the county’s Director of Public Health Darrell Gale confirmed that East Sussex is recording its highest levels of Covid-19 infection since the peak of the pandemic last December/January. The…
Plan B or not Plan B?
Local council and Public Health chief call for cautionary action In September the national government revealed its ‘Plan A’ to combat the further spread of Covid-19 infections. It involved no further lockdowns and few social restrictions within the UK’s borders,…
Targeting The Unvaccinated
Council Urges “More Personalised Approach” According to figures supplied by the Sussex Health and Care Partnership, the percentage of over 50s in the county who had been jabbed at least once with a Covid-19 vaccine by the beginning of June…
Reasons To Be Cheerful
MP Says Vaccine Take-Up Should Mean Holiday Easing Covid-19 numbers – for positive tests, for hospitalisations and for deaths – have all been reported on a sharply downward trend for several weeks in both Hastings and Rother. Local vaccination roll…
Covid News
Two new vaccination centres have been opened in Hastings & Rother to supplement those at Kings Church (on the Ridge), Sidley and the Conquest hospital. Qualifying residents of Rye, Battle and the rural areas of Rother are being directed to…
Covid Dominates Hastings Health Provision
The impact of increased Covid-19 infections in East Sussex is dominating local health provision and putting huge pressure on its staff, according to Dr David Walker, the Medical Director of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (ESHT), which runs the Conquest…
New Covid Testing Machines ‘Game Changers’
ESHT (East Sussex Healthcare Trust) announced last Thursday that they are now operating new Covid testing machines, which should significantly increase Covid testing capacity and speed up the turnaround time for test results at the Conquest and Eastbourne District General…
Vaccination Roll-Out:
“Courageous” and “Talent” The Conquest Hospital started its Covid vaccination programme at the end of December. Eastbourne DGH followed suit from 4th January. In each case, first doses were of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, code-named “Courageous”. Initial recipients were frontline health…
A Covid-19 casualty
Dominic Compagnone lives in Bexhill and runs a video production company based in Battle. This is his Covid-19 story. I am totally sick of the disregard for the lockdown rules I’m seeing in the very limited time I am able…