East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

#NHS 💙 Providing hospital care from Colchester & Ipswich hospitals, and community healthcare in north Essex & east Suffolk. Account not monitored 24/7.

[NHS @NHSuk]

As the weather heats up this weekend, make sure you stock up on sunscreen!

Even if it’s cloudy, UV rays can still cause sunburn. Follow this advice to avoid getting burnt, and reduce your risk of developing skin cancer.

Visit our website for more info on sun safety ⬇As the weather heats up this weekend, make sure you stock up on sunscreen!

Even if it’s cloudy, UV rays can still cause sunburn. Follow this advice to avoid getting burnt, and reduce your risk of developing skin cancer.

Visit our website for more info on sun safety ⬇As the weather heats up this weekend, make sure you stock up on sunscreen!

Even if it’s cloudy, UV rays can still cause sunburn. Follow this advice to avoid getting burnt, and reduce your risk of developing skin cancer.

Visit our website for more info on sun safety ⬇As the weather heats up this weekend, make sure you stock up on sunscreen!

Even if it’s cloudy, UV rays can still cause sunburn. Follow this advice to avoid getting burnt, and reduce your risk of developing skin cancer.

Visit our website for more info on sun safety ⬇As the weather heats up this weekend, make sure you stock up on sunscreen!

Even if it’s cloudy, UV rays can still cause sunburn. Follow this advice to avoid getting burnt, and reduce your risk of developing skin cancer.

Visit our website for more info on sun safety ⬇️

[NHS @NHSuk]

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a term used to described conditions that causes severe stomach pain and diarrhoea.

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are the main types of IBD. Both are long-term conditions with treatments available.

#WorldIBDDaInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a term used to described conditions that causes severe stomach pain and diarrhoea.

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are the main types of IBD. Both are long-term conditions with treatments available.

#WorldIBDDaInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a term used to described conditions that causes severe stomach pain and diarrhoea.

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are the main types of IBD. Both are long-term conditions with treatments available.

#WorldIBDDaInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a term used to described conditions that causes severe stomach pain and diarrhoea.

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are the main types of IBD. Both are long-term conditions with treatments available.

#WorldIBDDaInflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a term used to described conditions that causes severe stomach pain and diarrhoea.

Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis are the main types of IBD. Both are long-term conditions with treatments available.

#WorldIBDDay

[East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust @ESNEFT]

@69foryourtime Thanks for taking the time to share your positive experience with us. It’s great to hear you received the care and treatment you needed quickly. Wishing you a speedy recovery

[East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust @ESNEFT]

@moaningminnie58 We're so sorry to read this. Our PALS team can listen to your concerns about the service and feed them back. Their details are on our website: https://t.co/FlsqJqLbDB. If you need further support to access those details let us know.

[NHS East of England @NHSEastEngland]

In every department and throughout communities across the East of England, and the country, nurses make up the fabric of our NHS.

Thank you.

Happy International Nurses Day.

[East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust @ESNEFT]

@LSummersauthor Thank you for sharing Lucy 💙

[NHS @NHSuk]

This #SkinCancerAwarenessMonth, check your skin and contact your GP if you're worried about any signs that could be cancer.

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that can spread to other areas of the body.

Use the ABCDE checklist to remember some of the signs of melanomaThis #SkinCancerAwarenessMonth, check your skin and contact your GP if you're worried about any signs that could be cancer.

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that can spread to other areas of the body.

Use the ABCDE checklist to remember some of the signs of melanomaThis #SkinCancerAwarenessMonth, check your skin and contact your GP if you're worried about any signs that could be cancer.

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that can spread to other areas of the body.

Use the ABCDE checklist to remember some of the signs of melanomaThis #SkinCancerAwarenessMonth, check your skin and contact your GP if you're worried about any signs that could be cancer.

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that can spread to other areas of the body.

Use the ABCDE checklist to remember some of the signs of melanomaThis #SkinCancerAwarenessMonth, check your skin and contact your GP if you're worried about any signs that could be cancer.

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that can spread to other areas of the body.

Use the ABCDE checklist to remember some of the signs of melanoma.

[East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust @ESNEFT]

@pgsaunders @LeahFHardy Please do contact our Patient Advice and Liaison Service who will be able to discuss what’s happened and look into this for your father. This details are on our website: https://t.co/LnYBHdc7o9

[NHS @NHSuk]

Today is World Parkinson's Day.

Parkinson's disease is a condition in which parts of the brain become progressively damaged over many years.

Learn more about the condition ➡️ https://t.co/by9GcLBkEL

[NHS @NHSuk]

Continuing this weekend until Monday morning, some services will be affected due to strike action.

If you need urgent medical help, use 111, and if it is a serious or life-threatening emergency, please call 999.

[NHS @NHSuk]

Some NHS services will continue to be affected due to strike action until 7am Monday 13 April. You will be contacted if your appointment needs to be changed.

Please continue to come forward for the care you need

[East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust @ESNEFT]

During the resident doctors’ strike this week, please continue to attend any appointments unless you’re contacted and told otherwise.

Remember, use NHS 111 for urgent health needs, and in an emergency, please call 999 or go to A&E as normal.

[East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust @ESNEFT]

@TeacupCupcakes Good luck for your operation Dawn. Hope there’s a therapy dog 🐶 at hospital to help calm you. Message us which hospital and ward and we’ll share with the team who organises the dogs. 🐕

[East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust @ESNEFT]

"We know a hospital visit isn't ideal - but what makes you smile when you visit our hospitals?"

Our gardens?
Artwork on the walls?
Colchester duck pond?
Our therapy dogs?
Being near the coast at our community sites?
Something else?

[East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust @ESNEFT]

Charles, 76, has just received his 100th round of immunotherapy, having been given months to live in 2019, after a cancer diagnosis.
Charles said: "The @NHS has always been there for me.”
Charles, from Holland-On-Sea, visits Clacton Hospital's Jubilee Unit for his treatment.

[East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust @ESNEFT]

Our head of chaplaincy Linda Peall retires today after five years at ESNEFT and a 20-year NHS career, to spend more time with her family, take in theatre trips to London, and photograph local wildlife and nature, as part of her pastime as an amateur naturalist.
Good luck Linda!

[East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust @ESNEFT]

Today we say goodbye to long-serving nurse Karen, who works her final shift at Ipswich Hospital.
Karen qualified as a nurse at Ipswich in 1986 and has worked in a number of areas since, mainly with our elderly patients.
Thank you for everything, Karen, enjoy your retirement.

[East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust @ESNEFT]

@enuffisenuff19 We absolutely agree and have shared information through local news, social media, in our hospitals and on patient letters to help spread the word. We'd love it if you also helped us spread the message to your friends and family. Thanks 🙌

[East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust @ESNEFT]

If you use MyChart you'll notice a new login page. It means you can now sign in using your MyChart login details or your NHS login details. Full story 👇https://t.co/sAjqCPq1EL