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Covid: Sussex and Surrey in major incident response to virus

BBC News Published image captionIt is feared growing demand could overwhelm the county s health services Sussex and Surrey have rolled out major incident plans, as fears increase that Covid-19 cases could overwhelm local health services. Sussex Resilience Forum said growing demand had put services under unprecedented pressures. Restrictions across the South East were progressively tightened as the region faced an outbreak of the new Covid variant, which spreads more rapidly. In a statement, the Sussex forum said a major incident was declared at 14:00 GMT, while the Surrey forum said it had been operating in major incident mode since March 2020 but would now reprioritise operations.

East Sussex councillors back the closure of walk-in centre

Councillor Alan Shuttleworth East Sussex councillors have given their support to the controversial closure of a walk-in centre in Eastbourne. On Thursday (December 10), the East Sussex Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee (HOSC) confirmed it would not call in an NHS decision to close the Eastbourne Station Health Centre, as long as “alternative services” are put in place beforehand. These alternative services would include the soon-to-open Victoria Medical Centre establishing a branch surgery in the town centre and the commissioning of drop-in clinics for rough sleeping and homeless patients. Cllr Peter Pragnell (Con, Hastings Ashdown and Conquest) said: “There is a temptation to obsess about buildings rather than the services that are provided and where they are provided. 

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