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A hospital service that offers COVID treatments and advice is encouraging people to find out what support is available to them if they fall ill this winter.

Clinical researchers carrying out vital work to improve patient care at hospitals in mid and south Essex have won a number of prestigious awards.

Pitsea’s Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) is a step closer as Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust take ownership of The Place, Pitsea, and the neighbouring library ready to start construction.

October is Stoptober and new figures show that specialist hospital stop smoking teams have successfully reduced the number of women and birthing people who smoke, improving both their lives and those of their babies.

Medication can now be given to patients much faster at Basildon Hospital thanks to new advanced robots.

Patients in mid and south Essex with cancer and liver conditions are among those to benefit from new research equipment and facilities, thanks to a £900,000 grant from a national research body.

Events are being held at hospitals in mid and south Essex to mark Baby Loss Awareness Week (9-15 October), and to share the support available for bereaved families. 

A hospital ward has been given a dramatic makeover to make it warm, welcoming, safer, and more accessible for its patients.

People who have been diagnosed with cancer are now able to access a free pre-habilitation service.

Over 150 dedicated fundraisers gathered along Southend seafront on Sunday 22 September to take part in the annual Walk for Wards to support their local hospital.