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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.