University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

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University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
Type NHS foundation trust
Established1 April 2021
HeadquartersWorthing
NHS regionSouth East
Establishments16,000
Budget£1.3bn
Hospitals
ChairAlan McCarthy
Chief executiveGeorge Findlay
Website www.uhsussex.nhs.uk OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust which provides clinical services to people in Brighton and Hove, parts of East Sussex and West Sussex. It is abbreviated UHSussex or UHSx.

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History

The trust was established on 1 April 2021 following the merger of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. [1] [2] [3]

In 2023 UHSussex opened the new £400million Louisa Martindale Building [4] at the Brighton site.

Hospitals

The trust runs the following hospitals: [5]

Additional services are run from Brighton General Hospital, Hove Polyclinic, Lewes Victoria Hospital, and a number of other satellite clinics. [5]

Performance

Patient First is the hospitals long-term approach to transforming hospital services for the better.

It’s a process of continuous improvement. It starts by asking frontline staff to identify opportunities for positive, sustainable change. Then it gives them the skills and support to make that change happen.

In October 2022 UHSussex was inspected by the CQC with the report published in May 2023. It found that the hospitals were Outstanding in three areas (Effective, Caring and Use of Resources). Requires improvement in Safe and Responsive but Inadequate in Well-led. This gave a combined rating of Outstanding and an overall rating of Requires improvement (CQC May 2023 [6] )


In July 2022 it was reported that patients experiencing a mental health crisis had been kept in a “short stay area” of the Emergency Department at the Royal Sussex County Hospital for up to three weeks waiting for a mental health placement. It is an area with no natural light, no TV or radio and only a toilet and washbasin, with a shower available on a neighbouring ward. Between 1 February and 16 April, the Care Quality Commission found there had been 67 days when more than 18 patients had been accommodated in corridors. There were also many delays in emergency surgery. [7]

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References

  1. "About us". University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  2. "Brighton and Hove and West Sussex hospital trusts to merge". BBC. 29 March 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  3. "'Outstanding' trust's takeover of neighbour gets the go-ahead". Health Service Journal. 19 March 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
  4. "The Louisa Martindale Building - fully open". University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. 7 July 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  5. 1 2 "Hospitals". University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
  6. "University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust - Overview - Care Quality Commission". www.cqc.org.uk. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  7. "Patients kept in A&E for 'up to three weeks', CQC finds". Health Service Journal. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 28 September 2022.