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Residents in Southend are set to benefit from a new health centre offering diagnostic tests and scans closer to home.

Following the Government’s announcement of funding for a Community Diagnostic Centre in Pitsea, engagement events have been organised at The Place, to help the public find out more about the proposed Community Diagnostic Centre plans.

Stacey James, 36, from Southend, has been working as a Healthcare Assistant (HCA) for the last four years and the former hairdresser has given new meaning to caring with style.

Burns and plastics patients at Broomfield Hospital enjoyed a host of specially designed activities as part of a sports day to help in their recovery and movement.

Last night (Monday 31 July), BBC’s The One Show (BBC One, weekdays, 7pm) featured actress Michelle Collins visiting dermatologists at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust to see how they are helping spot skin cancer more quickly by using tele-dermatology.

A new pharmacy has opened at Basildon Hospital, providing a seven-day service to patients in a larger, modern, and more welcoming unit.

A happy workforce is linked to good patient care. Listening to our staff and colleagues is key to improving staff experience.

Extra and modernised breast screening rooms have opened in the breast units across Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, offering a calmer and more welcoming environment for patients, and means they will be seen more quickly.

A new surgical day unit will be built on the Southend Hospital site, following agreement for NHS funding.

Canvey Island Primary Care Centre has opened after renovation, with the Centre providing outpatient care, phlebotomy and X-ray services to the local community.

A Training Hospital of the Year award has been given to a department at Broomfield Hospital in recognition for its outstanding performance in training future consultants.

Young people with learning disabilities or autism celebrated finishing their hospital internships with a graduation ceremony, with several already having secured jobs.

Women and babies are benefitting from a new £11,000 wireless machine that helps monitor both their health in real-time during labour.

The Breast Friends support group at Broomfield Hospital has received 25 fantastic care packs for breast surgery patients.

Volunteers have helped make light work of litter picking and given an outside space a much-needed makeover at Basildon Hospital, to the joy of staff, relatives and patients.

Ruth Morris, owner of Ruma Boutique in Leigh-on-Sea, delivered an afternoon of fashion show fun for over 90 people, all in the name of charity.

A scheme that helps residents to start work and gain skills in healthcare has won a national award following its nomination by local Members of Parliament.

A glittering awards evening celebrating the great and the good of hospital staff, there couldn’t have been a more perfect date for it than on the 75^th birthday of the NHS.

Amanda Dixon is a Lead Midwife for the Labour Ward at Broomfield Hospital, she began her nurse training 36 years ago and she has been lucky enough to work alongside her daughter, Kira Price-Dixon, who is also a registered nurse and has worked within gynaecology and maternity and is now a Clinical Nurse Specialist with the Breast Care team.

Mum and daughter, Sue Thomson and Louise Chapman from Chelmsford, both work in Radiology at Broomfield Hospital. They don’t just work at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust as part of the Trust family, but very much feel part of the wider NHS family.