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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.  

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    Our strategy

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

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    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

Trust Newsroom

Hospital team first in Essex to get ‘gold-standard’ care recognition
Hospital team first in Essex to get ‘gold-standard’ care recognition

A specialist respiratory rehabilitation team have been recognised by the Royal College of Physicians for their high-quality care for patients with long-term lung conditions....

Cancer appeal celebrates beating its original target by over £300,000
Cancer appeal celebrates beating its original target by over £300,000

An appeal launched with the goal of improving the lives of cancer patients, by providing the latest in radiotherapy facilities at Southend Hospital, has smashed its original target as it celebrates it...

Patient Zoe Moore with Braintree Hospital staff at the new theatre
£1.3m upgrade cuts waiting times for Essex patients

Almost 3,000 procedures a year will now be offered at Braintree Community Hospital, following the opening of a new £1.3 million procedure room, which doubles the hospital’s current capacit...

Natalie (in red top) and her dad, Steve (second from right), with staff members at Southend Hospital
‘Exceptional’ stroke care for dad inspires daughter’s marathon fundraiser

A Hockley woman took on the Brighton Marathon to raise almost £2,000 for the stroke rehabilitation unit at Southend Hospital. ...

Merlin with Broomfield Hospital staff
Paw-some film is calming young hospital patients

Filmmakers from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) have created a heartwarming video to make visits to Broomfield Hospital less daunting for young people....

Complex lung patients’ lives boosted by new initiative
Complex lung patients’ lives boosted by new initiative

The lives of patients undergoing complex lung procedures at the world-renowned Essex Cardiothoracic Centre (CTC) are being improved thanks to almost £4,000 from charitable funds. ...

Radiotherapy Appeal run in half marathon raises over £13,500
Radiotherapy Appeal run in half marathon raises over £13,500

A husband, whose wife was diagnosed with cancer, has raised over £13,500 for the Spotlight Radiotherapy Appeal at Southend Hospital after running this year’s Southend Half Marathon....

Critical Netflix series - Hospital staff make Netflix debut in new medical documentary
Hospital staff make Netflix debut in new medical documentary

Staff from Broomfield Hospital and Southend Hospital will soon be seen on Netflix in a new factual TV series that puts a spotlight on the London Major Trauma System, its patients, and the professional...

Foundation doctor Amina Waheed and her mum Miss Munazza Siddiqa to deliver babies together
Mum and daughter duo deliver baby

The delivery of a baby in the maternity theatre was a real unique family affair, after a healthy baby was delivered by caesarean section and welcomed into the world – by a mother-daughter surgic...

Colin Partington's photo from 40 years ago and in 2025
Doctor is flying high after 50-year journey from RAF to Essex hospital

A doctor is celebrating a five-decade career spanning medical work in both the RAF and – for the last 30 years – improving the lives of patients and training the next generation of doctors...