Time to Change is a four-year campaign to end mental health discrimination. Sussex Partnership has rolled out Time to Change across Sussex to highlight issues faced by people with mental health problems. This is the Brighton launch of Time to Change with Trust Chair John Bacon CB (front left) and Chief Executive Lisa Rodrigues (second row, second from right) with people who use mental health services, Trust Governors, staff, local MP and partners from local agencies. 2 Contents 1. Foreword .............................................................................................. 4 2. Introduction ........................................................................................ 5 3. Our vision, values and aims .............................................................. 8 4. Better by Design: our services .......................................................... 10 Open access services .......................................................................... 12 Community services ............................................................................ 14 Day hospital and intermediate services ................................................ 16 Residential services .............................................................................. 17 Hospital services .................................................................................... 17 Specialist services ................................................................................ 18 5. Better by Design: Sussex Partnership .............................................. 22 Supporting staff .................................................................................... 22 Research and learning ............................................................................ 24 The estate ................................................................................................ 27 The organisation ...................................................................................... 28 Facts and figures ................................................................................ 30 Governance .......................................................................................... 32 3 Better by Design 2010 – 2014 Strategic programme for mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services 1 Foreword This document sets out our long term strategic John Bacon CB direction of travel on which our detailed Chair of Sussex Partnership programmes for the coming five years will be NHS Foundation Trust based. These programmes will be developed, agreed and published by the Trust’s Board of Directors and Council of Governors year by year, taking account of the opportunities that we know Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (Sussex will arise and responding to changes quickly, Partnership) provides specialist mental health, flexibly, and successfully. learning disability and substance misuse services. During the life of this programme public finances We are an integral part of the health and social will be under pressure. We have taken this as an care network for the people of Sussex. There is opportunity to deliver the promise we made when no health without mental health. we became an NHS Foundation Trust in 2008: to innovate, to ensure consistent standards and This strategic programme, adopted by the Trust equity across our services, and to provide care in Board, sets out our plans and the targets against more efficient and better ways. which we will be measured. Our job is to help the most vulnerable people in It will deliver services that are better by design in society towards recovery and independence. terms of their provision, the estate and the skills We have set our sights high on their behalf. of our workforce. 4 through innovation “ “we will improve the 2 quality of our services Introduction I Continuously growing, refining and Lisa Rodrigues, developing so that we can attract and keep Chief Executive, the very best people. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust This strategic programme is based on sound financial and business assumptions which recognise the certainty of public sector constraints in the Sussex Partnership aims to provide services that coming years. At the time of writing all we can be are better by design. By this we mean: sure of is that public sector finances will be under I Delivering the very best possible services that increased pressure from 2010 onwards. We have are completely focussed on the people who made plans on this basis. use them, that offer real choice and that put We have an excellent track record of operating them in the driving seat within our means and we are currently rated I Being as good as the very best providers of Excellent by the independent regulator, the Care similar services Quality Commission, for the way in which we I Delivering services that are externally measured use our resources. This experience will guide us as being of outstanding quality, supported by and enable us to continue as a strong, well- high standards of professional practice governed and sustainable organisation I Measuring our own performance so that we throughout the life of this programme. know how well each element of the Trust is performing, and so that we can make changes where necessary 5 Better by Design 2010 – 2014 Strategic programme for mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services we are investing “ “ proportionally more each year in research As an NHS Foundation Trust we are required to It sits within a framework of national policy generate a surplus year on year. Currently this is including New Horizons, towards a shared two percent of our annual turnover. We will vision of mental health (Department of Mental reinvest this to pump-prime essential developments. Health December 2009); Valuing People Now (Department of Health January 2009); and of We have adopted a business culture based on annually set priorities including the Operating performance, evaluation and resilience to support Framework for the NHS issued by the Department the delivery of this programme. of Health and priorities set by the South East We are investing proportionally more each year in Coast Strategic Health Authority. research to consolidate our position as a national This programme is ambitious and achievable. centre of academic excellence. We will develop Through innovation we will improve the quality of our clinicians and leaders and introduce new our services for those who use them and the working methods to realise the full potential of efficiency with which we provide them: we will do our skilled, flexible workforce. more with less. We will deliver services that are Better by Design has been developed from measurably better by design. discussions with our partners in the NHS and primary care, local authorities and voluntary organisations; our own staff and, through our Council of Governors, representatives of those who use our services. 6 Sussex Partnership’s hospital at Mill View, Hove, serves the city of Brighton and Hove and also provides inpatient detoxification services for a wider catchment area. 7 Better by Design 2010 – 2014 Strategic programme for mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services 3 Our vision, values and aims The vision of Sussex Partnership is to realise the We have set ourselves five strategic aims: potential of everyone who uses our services, I High quality care for all people using Sussex and to help our staff to do a great job. Partnership services Our values are to: I Employer of empowered, engaged, well I Challenge stigma and discrimination whilst trained and motivated staff promoting equality and positive attitudes I A leading teaching and research mental I Work in new ways and develop new services health trust I Put the human rights of the people who use I A well-governed sustainable organisation our services at the centre of everything we do I A growing organisation that invests in I Work in partnership with others improved services I Be a creative force and lead by example 8 Our staff do a great job. These are some of our winners at the 2009 staff awards. 9 Better by Design 2010 – 2014 Strategic programme for mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services 4 Better by Design: our services Sussex Partnership provides a comprehensive and Our care groups: developing range of mental health and related I Child and adolescent mental health services, services as follows: including support to families I Open access services I Working age mental health services I Community services I Older people’s mental health services I Day hospital and intermediate services I Secure and forensic mental health services I Residential services I Substance misuse services I Hospital care, and I Learning disability services I Specialist services We also provide mental health into primary care These services are managed in six care groups and services (GPs and their teams at local surgeries) across six local communities covering Brighton and and psychological therapies such as cognitive Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex, and to people behavioural therapy (CBT) where the Trust is living on our borders in Hampshire and Surrey. leading the way nationally. Our local communities: I Brighton and Hove I Eastbourne, Lewes and Wealden I Hastings and Rother I Crawley, Horsham and Mid Sussex I Worthing and Adur I Chichester, Bognor and Littlehampton 10 One to one therapy and treatment is at the centre of much of the Trust’s work. 11 Better by Design 2010