1. Who we are?
What we do?
Where we are going?
Paul Somerville
Marketing & Stakeholder Engagement Manager
www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk

2. Who we are and what we do
• Main provider of NHS community health services across West
Sussex and Brighton & Hove.
• Provide wide range of medical, nursing and therapeutic care to over
9,000 people a day.
• Help people plan, manage and adapt to changes in their health,
prevent avoidable admission to hospital and minimise hospital stay.
• We spend on average £500,000 a day.
• Over 90 services across from adults to children.
• Over 4,000 staff.

3. Our mission
Care that Counts. Improving Health. Changing Lives.
1. Providing care and managing clinical risk in the community.
2. Preventing avoidable hospital admissions.
3. Minimising hospital stay – supported early discharge.
4. Improving lives through self-care and prevention (wellbeing).
5. Coordinated and flexible service for families and children.

4. Our vision
To put excellent community
care at the heart of the NHS.
Providing leading-edge
community-based services
that support local people and
help keep healthcare affordable.

5. Four strategic objectives
• Develop flexible and innovative care
based on patient-centred design.
• Improve patient experience and raise
the quality of care.
• Sustain and improve our financial
strength.
• Become a thriving Foundation Trust
supported by excellent staff and public
engagement.

6. Current situation – diverse population needs
• Ageing population, especially in West Sussex. Need investment in
integrated health and social care to care for people at home.
• Above average young population in Brighton and Hove with issues
around alcohol, smoking, drugs and STDs.
• Above average obesity levels in West Sussex.
• Deprivation above national average in Brighton and Hove,
increasing in West Sussex.
• Primary causes of death: cancer, circulatory diseases and
respiratory diseases.
We need to deliver sustained services
and service improvement in these areas.

7. Population management
Based on our local demographic area, our key priorities are to support
the following populations:
• Children and young people.
• Those with complex health needs e.g. a long term condition.
• The frail elderly population.

8. A sample of our services
Community rapid response, community neurological
Frail elderly adults
rehabilitation team/stroke, specialist nursing, therapy
and unplanned
services, HIV, integrated primary care teams,
care
end of life care and palliative care.
Children & young
Health visiting, school nursing, looked after children,
people’s services
community nursing, therapy services
in partnership with
continuing care, short breaks, child development centres.
BHCC
Scheduled care Specialist dental services, prosthetics and tissue viability.
Wheelchair services, community equipment provision and
Reablement
Sussex Rehabilitation Centre.
Smoking cessation, abdominal aorta screening,
Health & wellbeing
sexual health service, TB and cancer screening.

9. Our plans to become a foundation trust
• We are planning to start our official consultation in mid
October.
• All NHS trusts have to become an independent
foundation trust or merge with an existing foundation
trust.
• Foundation trusts have more freedom from government
control and answer instead to local people and their
staff.
• As a foundation trust we can build much stronger links
with the people we serve.
• Residents in West Sussex, Brighton and Hove and all
patients of our services can have their say and join as a
member.

10. Thanks for listening.
Any questions?
www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk