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Laboratories told of an 'evolving situation' in January 2020

My COVID-19 story began in January 2020 with PHE bulletins informing laboratories in the UK of an “evolving situation”....

St Richard's Hospital Western Sussex Hospitals Written article

It's official... I am going to live...

Reflection of loved ones battle with Covid

Emotional content Photo Western Sussex Hospitals Worthing Hospital Written article Zine (to be included in our forthcoming Zine)

It was a beautiful moment within a very weird situation...

With partners unable to join antenatal scans a sonographer reassures a nervous mum to be as she learns she's expecting twins.

Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals Royal Sussex County Hospital Written article Zine (to be included in our forthcoming Zine)

Eyes; that once burned with flames of life sea grey, deeper than the oceans depths, Are fading and clouding into coming night dimming into twilight and their final rest. Face; soft etched with youths fading grace is now scarred over by Deaths cold hand, Memories of you worn away like frayed lace leaving only the jutting bones to stand. Hands; hands that once moved my world lie like the roots of old upended trees, Stubby, grey and wrinkled with the cold they persist while their life force flees.

In Passing

Poem 'In passing' - submitted by Anthony Hicks, Clerical Assistant

Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals Poem Royal Sussex County Hospital Zine (to be included in our forthcoming Zine)

Images from research and development teams

Submitted by Linda Last year was a struggle to have somewhere to sit and eat ...

If you only had one hour left with your loved one, what would you say...

For three weeks I have been working on Ford, which is a ward of covid positive patients who are deemed not suitable for escalation beyond steroids and oxygen support....

Emotional content St Richard's Hospital Western Sussex Hospitals Written article

If I can survive being a surgical matron in a pandemic, I can do anything...

As the Southlands Matron I was responsible for the Day surgery team and the Ophthalmic team here at Southlands, both teams had very different experiences of the pandemic...

Southlands Hospital Western Sussex Hospitals Worthing Hospital Written article

I’m sorry I didn’t get you that pillow

Poem 'I'm sorry I didn't get you that pillow' - submitted by Louisa, Nurse

Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals Poem Royal Sussex County Hospital Zine (to be included in our forthcoming Zine)

I have a little cry myself right there at the nurses station...

I stand at the bedside, holding up an iPad so that my dying patient’s family can say goodbye to their mother, their grandmother, their auntie...

Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals Emotional content Royal Sussex County Hospital Written article

I didn't know that was to be the last time I saw her in person...

Prior to the pandemic, colleagues and management here in Cancer Services at Worthing Hospital were very understanding of my duty to help my grandmother......

Western Sussex Hospitals Worthing Hospital Written article

He was able to be there for the birth of his first child...

One morning I arrived at work to be told that all frontline staff were required to wear scrubs. I had no idea how to obtain scrubs, but one of my physio colleagues suggested I ask at ITU......

Western Sussex Hospitals Worthing Hospital Written article