Debby Matthews
Debby's previous background work in health includes for a short while in nursing but later as a professional health librarian at Department of Health and Brighton postgraduate medical centre libraries, as a project officer with Hastings and Rother CHC looking at health information for patients, as a temporary worker with ESBHHA on the Information for Health initiative and as coordinator of the PPI forum network for East Sussex, Brighton & Hove. Her experience in the community and voluntary sector has included work with ESDA and Action in Rural Sussex. She helped set up the Carers Centre in Hove in the late 1980s. She is passionate about the NHS and about the contribution that the community and voluntary sector make to develop a healthy community. Debby joined HOSC in September 2007.
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BN7 1XG
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