Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust is a

community health trust As part of the English NHS programme of separating the provision of services from commissioning known as Transforming Community Services a number of community health trusts were established when these services were separated from primary care tru ...

established as a result of the

Transforming Community Services Transforming Community Services was a programme in the English NHS which operated from 2008 at a national level and continued during the implementation of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Although the rhetoric of the programme was about impro ...

programme. It is the main provider of NHS community health services across

West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ...

Brighton and Hove Brighton and Hove () is a city and unitary authority in East Sussex, England. It consists primarily of the settlements of Brighton and Hove, alongside neighbouring villages. Often referred to synonymously as Brighton, the City of Brighton and H ...

and has an annual budget of £185m. It became an NHS

foundation trust A foundation trust is a semi-autonomous organisational unit within the National Health Service in England. They have a degree of independence from the Department of Health and Social Care (and, until the abolition of SHAs in 2013, their local s ...

in March 2016. Siobhan Melia, has a clinical background having worked as a podiatrist, before moving into senior clinical leadership and managerial roles within the NHS. Siobhan was appointed as the new chief executive of the trust in October 2016 taking over from Paula Head, who was chief executive since January 2013. The trust claims to be the first NHS organisation in Sussex to have achieved accreditation as a ‘Living Wage Employer’, paying its staff a minimum of £7.45 per hour. It runs services at

Bognor Regis War Memorial Hospital Bognor Regis War Memorial Hospital is a health facility in Shripney Road, Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England. It is managed by Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. History The facility, which was built as a lasting memorial to soldiers who died ...

Brighton General Hospital Brighton General Hospital is an acute general hospital on Elm Grove in Brighton, East Sussex. It is managed by Sussex Community NHS Trust. The main Arundel building is a Grade II listed building. History The hospital has its origins in the Brig ...

Zachary Merton Hospital Zachary Merton Hospital is a health facility at Glenville Road, Rustington, West Sussex, England. It is managed by the Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. History The facility, which was financed by a trust fund established by Zachary Merton, ...

Littlehampton Littlehampton is a town, seaside resort, and pleasure harbour, and the most populous civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the English Channel on the eastern bank of the mouth of the River Arun. It is south sout ...

, Arundel and District Hospital,

Horsham Hospital Horsham Hospital is a health facility at Hurst Road in Horsham, West Sussex, England. It is managed by Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. History The facility, which was financed by voluntary donations, was completed in 1892. The hospital ex ...

and

Midhurst Midhurst () is a market town, parish and civil parish in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother inland from the English Channel, and north of the county town of Chichester. The name Midhurst was first recorded in 1186 as ''Middeh ...

Community Hospital. In December 2013 it was announced that the trust had arranged a deal with

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to identify ‘new and exciting ways of achieving its vision of excellent care at the heart of the community’. The £22m partnership is hoped to save around £15m. Capita agreed a five-year strategic partnership with the trust to help it achieve foundation trust status in 2014 which will see Capita provide clinical expertise, service design, and health intelligence and reporting. It aims to transform the trust's property and facilities management and services to improve the estate and to help the trust's procurement team to find opportunities for better value from non-salary expenditure. The trust is part of the Sussex Musculoskeletal Partnership with Brighton and Hove Integrated Care Service, Horder Healthcare and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. In May 2014 the consortium won a five-year musculoskeletal contract worth £210m from Brighton and Hove, Crawley and Horsham and Mid Sussex

clinical commissioning group Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) were NHS organisations set up by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to organise the delivery of NHS services in each of their local areas in England. On 1 July 2022 they were abolished and replaced by Integ ...

s. It was named by the '' Health Service Journal'' as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 3,460 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.83%. 72% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 60% recommended it as a place to work.

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External links

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust website

Care Quality Commission assessment
{{Authority control NHS foundation trusts Health in Sussex

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