• A computer screen showing multiple scans of a brain

    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.

    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.

  • A four by four square box of our strategy and priorities

    Our strategy

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

    Click to find out more

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

    Our strategy

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

    Click to find out more

  • The National Heritage plaque for the St Andrew's Centre

    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

    Read more about our services.

    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

    Read more about our services.

  • A brown haired woman sitting in an office with a headset on looking directly at the camera

    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.

    Read more

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

  1. image-Broomfields.png
    Broomfield Hospital
  2. image-Basildon.png
    Basildon University Hospital
  3. image-stMichaels.png
    Southend University Hospital
  4. image-hospital-icon.png
    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.
  1. image-Conversation Aqua 72ppi.png
    Have your say...

    If you're interested in making decisions about how your local healthcare services are run, please tell us your thoughts.
  2. image-Calendar Aqua 72ppi.png
    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

Patients Toni Potter and Jess Sloan
Cancer patients' praise for breast surgeon featured in new TV series

Two cancer patients, featured in a new Channel 5 TV series The Surgeon, have expressed huge thanks to their breast surgeon ahead of their episode being screened tomorrow....

Lauren Barnard, Executive Director of Corporate Governance at the Trust, holding the type of lighting that will be replaced across hospital sites
Over £9m for greener, cleaner lighting across hospitals

Hospitals are ‘switched on’ to environmentally friendly improvements after they were awarded £9.2m to help reduce energy use....

Elizabeth Andrews, who found a job through the Anchor programme
Success of employment programme helping people back to work

An employment programme is celebrating its first successes in helping people find jobs in the NHS....

Sascha Dua, Consultant Breast Surgeon
Breast surgeon features in new Channel 5 documentary

A breast surgeon has revealed what life is like behind the mask, after cameras followed her at work and home, for a new national television documentary. ...

l-r: Professor Gerald Carr-White, Consultant Cardiologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, Dr Andrew Madu, Resident Doctor, Basildon Hospital.
Heart research wins top prize

A resident doctor at the world‑renowned Essex Cardiothoracic Centre (CTC) has earned national recognition for his presentation on heart muscle disease....

Seth and Adam Petterson handing over the games consoles to the ward
Young patient buys new gaming gear for burns ward

A grateful former burns patient has donated a brand-new PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch and games to Broomfield Hospital’s Children’s Burns ward, inspired by the amazing care he received....

Apprentices improving themselves and the lives of hospital patients
Apprentices improving themselves and the lives of hospital patients

This week (9-15 February) is National Apprenticeship Week and over 350 apprentices are working in various roles across our local hospitals. ...

Paul, Brad and Jonathan, Porters nominated for the award
Hospital porters up for top awards

Three hospital porters from Southend Hospital are finalists in a national awards scheme, shining a light on the vital part they play in patient care....

Working in chemotherapy gave Fiona a chance to give something back
Personal cancer journeys shape career paths for hospital staff

Every day hundreds of dedicated staff support patients at Southend Hospital’s cancer centre. ...

PADAS in action and one of the society handing over a giant cheque to Clair Dade
Angling group has netted over £34,000 for cancer patients

World Cancer Day is on 4 February, and over the last 11 years members of the Prittlewell and District Angling Society (PADAS) have reeled in tens of thousands of pounds for Southend Hospital....