Sussex Health and Care Partnership
The Sussex Health and Care Partnership, comprising 21 partners including local authorities, health providers, and clinical commissioning groups, collaborates to address the evolving needs of Sussex residents. This unique collaboration aims to drive significant health and care improvements over the next five years by aligning partners’ plans and efforts, ensuring cohesive and effective service delivery

Our work in suicide prevention
As one of the key workstreams in Sussex health and care partnership’s mental health programme we bring together organisations to deliver a programme of work that directly contributes to the prevention of suicide and self harm.

Our current priorities
The programme focuses on five key workstreams: a social marketing campaign targeting middle-aged men and their influencers; suicide prevention training for primary care staff, armed forces personnel, and workplaces; bereavement support; self-harm support in A&E; and an innovation fund to support new initiatives aimed at preventing suicide and reducing self-harm.

Our current challenges
There are always challenges when working across different organisations and geographic boundaries. However within the organisations that make up Sussex Health and Care Partnership there is an enormous amount of talented and hard working people who have the professionalism, talent, enthusiasm and goodwill to support us in reaching our aim of reducing the rate of suicide in Sussex.
