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More good news
for first-time NHS buyers in Mid Sussex
FIRST-TIME
buyers working in the NHS in Mid Sussex may be able to get £20,000 towards
buying a home, and their deposit paid.
New funding is now available under the government’s Starter Home Initiative
scheme to help key workers onto the property ladder.
Those eligible can take two loans. The first, six percent of the purchase price,
is used for a deposit.
The second loan, paid on completion, formerly a flat rate £10,000, has been
doubled to up to £20,000. Unlike a mortgage, no monthly payment has to be paid
on the loans.
Instead, a lump sum is paid back based on the market value when the home is
eventually sold.
If the two loans added up to 25 per cent of the purchase price, for example, 25
per cent of the sale price would have to be repaid, whether the value has gone
up or down.
Any NHS employee in Mid Sussex, Crawley or Horsham, whatever post is held, can
apply.
More information from Judith Fessler at Southern Housing Home Ownership on 020
7553 6423.
A ‘hockey
stick’ probe ordered for the Sonosite scanner by the Sussex Stroke and
Circulation Fund will enable the scanner to be used during operations to detect
blood flow in the arteries.
The Sonosite, which was
purchased by the fund a year ago, is mobile and very compact. This means the
machine is ideally suited to operating theatres where there is not much room to
move around.
It also means that the large
ATL scanner in the Sussex County’s vascular assessment unit is not out of
action while being taken to theatres.
Vascular surgeon Richard
Corbett from the Princess Royal Hospital, who since the formation of the new
trust now works at both major hospitals, has taken over the chairmanship of the
fund.
He has been on the committee
of SSCF since 1986.
The fund has raised over £900,000 since it
was set up in 1980 and has provided equipment for the Royal Sussex, Princess
Royal and Hurstwood Park.
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T HERE are new roles for
some of the trust’s directorate nurse manag-
ers and general managers as a result of the fine tuning of the management
structure announced last month.
Jayne Black becomes
general manager for Critical Care and Anaesthesia, Janet Cheesman for
Medicine, Sherree Fagge for Clinical Site Management which will now be
known as In Patient Access and Gareth Hall for Out Patients.
General manager Mark Cannon
now has responsibility for Specialised Services. Gill Dewey becomes
general manger for Emergency Care
The general managers who
remain unchanged are Surgery, Maria Wilson; Diagnostics and Clinical
Services, Flowie Georgiou; Cancer, Nicky Besag and Women and Child
Health, Amanda Fadero.
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The Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton