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Thanks to a donation of over 90 trees, patients, staff and visitors can expect greener spaces when they visit Southend and Broomfield hospitals.

Essex heart patients are the first in the country to benefit from new wearable technology used by hospital staff in a revolutionary procedure.

Lives of patients suffering Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrests could be saved thanks to a new pilot scheme being trialed across Essex jointly by ambulances, air ambulances and a specialist heart centre.

A volunteer who has been helping feed hospital patients for the last 10 years is now passing on his skills and experience to the next generation, who are encouraging vulnerable and elderly patients to eat at mealtimes.

Matthew Hopkins has been appointed as Chief Executive of Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

Patient recovery times for heart patients are improving thanks to a less invasive way of moving veins from a patient’s leg to their heart.

A head and throat-shaped training model, designed to help improve care for patients at Broomfield Hospital who have problems swallowing, has been kindly donated by the Friends of Broomfield.

An IT glitch - which meant some letters sent electronically to GPs from local hospitals were never received – has been fixed.

Information just released shows that ambulance handover times at Southend Hospital’s emergency department have improved by 300 per cent in four months.

A key challenge for discharging patients from hospital before 3pm is the provision of medication for them to take home from the pharmacy.