Our Strategies
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being transparent with its stakeholders and the public by providing detailed strategies, financial reports and information on governance within the Trust.
Our Trust strategy 2022 – 2026 describes how we will adapt our services to meet local needs and continue to work closely with partner organisations to deliver more joined up and coordinated care, whilst always placing patients, children, families and carers at the centre of everything we do.
Our Digital Strategy 2021-2025 sets out how we will improve our patients' health and wellbeing and their care experience through the effective use of data, digital technology and technology-enabled care.
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust has set out an ambition to be a digital leader in the NHS. We are committed to maximising the benefits of data, systems and technology to improve the way we provide care for our patients.
Our approach is to understand our colleagues, the work they do, and the patients we care for. With this deeper understanding of their needs, we commit to using our ever-evolving knowledge of the world of Digital, Data and Technology to try and make their work less laborious, their interactions with each other more meaningful and our ability to provide care more effective. Our rationale is that any technology we might use is only as relevant as the peoples' needs that it can address. This strategy at its core is a series of statements of intent for the people we support. These statements are our answers to the needs that we learnt from a series of in-depth interviews with staff and patients. We further validated these needs with online surveys so we could be even more assured that what we discovered is actually what is needed.
View our Digital StrategyDigital projects
Digital transformation and EPR optimisation work
- Improve EPR usability to respond to staff frustrations
- Implement new visit-scheduling functionality – Autoplanner
- Replace paper process with new functionality – eObservations
- Improve how we communicate with our patients digitally
- Speech recognition direct into EPR solution
- Improve staff digital and data literacy via personalised and group digital access training
- Digitise processes to automate and support efficiencies
- Deliver an accessible intranet and corporate website
Sharing Data
Our goal is for the right information about our patients to be available to staff when they need it to inform decision making, regardless of where that information was first requested by the NHS
- Develop a stand-alone data warehouse with enabled automated flows and data-analysis tools
- Deliver real-time data dashboards between Community and Acute partners to support efficient discharge process
- Collaborate on the development of Plexus Sussex Shared Care Record to improve access to care records across Sussex health and social care partners
- EMIS / SystmOne integration project to share data across Community and Primary Care partners
Infrastructure and Cyber Resilience
All staff will have the kit and training they need to do their job properly
- End user devices and smartphones
- Improving resilience and cyber security to ensure our data is safe and easy to access whether in SCFT offices or working remotely
- WiFi improvements for better staff and patient experiences
- Enable agile working through the space and room booking project
Latest jobs
| Title | Location | Salary | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Data Engineering | Brighton | Up to £81,138 | Permanent |
