Improving Lives Together: NHS Sussex's ambition for a healthier future
Its aim is to improve the lives of local people by supporting them to live healthier for longer and making sure they have access to the best possible services when they need them.
There are many issues and challenges that are currently impacting on the health and care of our population, and the services that are available to support them. This means some people are not always getting the experience we all want and staff are working hard under increasing pressure.
A lot of work has already taken place over recent years to improve the support, care and treatment available, and the timeliness of how people access services. However, this has not always gone far enough in many areas and a lot of the issues can only be resolved with greater, longer-term and more ambitious change.
Key priorities for 2023 can be found here
Partners across health and care have agreed three key areas for change that will bring about the greatest benefit to local people:
- Building integrated community teams and local partnerships across Brighton & Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex – to allow services and organisations to work in a joined-up way to better meet the needs of each local community.
- Growing and supporting our Sussex health and care workforce – to attract more people to work in health and care, as well as supporting and developing the skills or careers of our existing staff.
- Improving the use of digital technology and information – to help join-up our services and enable people to access advice or care more easily.
Improving Lives Together is built on work that is already taking place and has been set out in the Health and Wellbeing Strategies in Brighton & Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex. It has also been shaped by evidence, feedback and insight from partners and the public, and responds to a number of national strategies, plans and guidelines that need to be met.
It has been agreed by the Sussex Health & Care Assembly, which is a new joint committee between NHS Sussex, Brighton & Hove City Council, East Sussex County Council and West Sussex County Council, with a broad membership from voluntary and community organisations, Healthwatch, universities, further education, housing and the Sussex Chamber of Commerce.
A Shared Delivery Plan is currently being developed and will be published in April to set out the specific actions and improvements across each of these priority areas.
Supporting information can be found here.
