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    Cancer services

    If you are worried about cancer and want to understand more including what treatments we offer, we've got you covered.  

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    Cancer services

    If you are worried about cancer and want to understand more including what treatments we offer, we've got you covered.  

    Read more about our services.

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    Our strategy

    We're pleased to have launched our organisational 10-year strategy.

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    https://www.mse.nhs.uk/about-us

    Our strategy

    We're pleased to have launched our organisational 10-year strategy.

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    St Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns

    We are a a leading specialist facility for plastic surgery and burns based at Broomfield Hospital

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    St Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns

    We are a a leading specialist facility for plastic surgery and burns based at Broomfield Hospital

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    New 0300 telephone numbers

    To improve our telephone systems at our Trust, services will gradually move to new telephone numbers starting with the prefix of 0300 443.

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    Our services will gradually move to new telephone numbers starting with the prefix of 0300 443

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    Broomfield Hospital
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    Basildon University Hospital
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    Southend University Hospital
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    Other locations and sites

Excellent, Compassionate, Respectful

We provide a huge range of clinical services and care for a population of over 1.2 million people in central and south Essex.
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    Have your say...

    If you're interested in making decisions about how your local healthcare services are run, please tell us your thoughts.
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    Outpatient appointments

    Information for you when you have an outpatient appointment at one of our mid and south Essex hospitals.
  3. Digital Services
    Patient systems

    Our digital systems aim to improve the way we communicate with you and gives you quick and easy access to care that you need.

Trust Newsroom

Nurse in solo charity walk from Southend to Basildon for heart patients
Nurse in solo charity walk from Southend to Basildon for heart patients

February is Heart Month, and a Basildon Hospital nurse is completing solo walking challenges to help raise funds to support further improvements for patients....

Digital innovation helping improve cancer care for patients
Digital innovation helping improve cancer care for patients

Cancer patients across Essex are seeing faster, more streamlined care thanks to new digital automation, meaning staff can spend more time working with consultants to help speed up admin for more compl...

Local NHS Trusts’ digital education programme shortlisted for prestigious HSJ Digital Awards 2026
Local NHS Trusts’ digital education programme shortlisted for prestigious HSJ Digital Awards 2026

An education programme which is improving digital skills and enhancing confidence with using new technology for NHS staff has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award....

Next-generation radiotherapy machine to speed up cancer treatment
Next-generation radiotherapy machine to speed up cancer treatment

Cancer patients are set to receive faster and more targeted treatment as upgrades to radiotherapy machines at Southend University Hospital continue, helping to reduce waiting times....

Jodie and Colin Matthews, from Witham
Cold cot donations as thanks for bereavement care

Families experiencing baby loss will be able to spend precious time with their child thanks to the donation of two cold cots by families who have suffered the same loss themselves....

Emma Gray, Consultant General and Breast Surgeon at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Surgeon wins prestigious award for training and support

A surgeon at Southend Hospital has been presented with a prestigious award....

Thousands of hospital patients to be delivered presents on Christmas Day
Thousands of hospital patients to be delivered presents on Christmas Day

Patients in hospital on Christmas Day will get a festive boost, thanks to the delivery of 3,000 gifts....

Hospital staff working Christmas Day delivered hampers full of thanks
Hospital staff working Christmas Day delivered hampers full of thanks

Almost 300 Christmas hampers have been delivered to hospital staff who will be working on Christmas Day, in recognition of their dedication. ...

Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust: The year in review
Mid and South Essex Foundation Trust: The year in review

From cutting-edge cancer technology to life-saving neonatal equipment, a UK first Burns Bus and the opening of the Trust’s first Community Diagnostic Centre in Thurrock, 2025 has been a year of ...

Bringing festive joy to children in hospital
Bringing festive joy to children in hospital

Christmas activities are helping deliver some well-deserved cheer to young hospital patients at what can be a particularly difficult time for them....