Our new Research and Innovation Strategy sets out our five-year ambitions for healthcare research and innovation within the Trust and for the people of Sussex in support of our vision of providing excellent care, every time for all our patients.
From expanding access to research to offering new treatments, our research and innovation strategy is informed by what our patients, public and staff have told us, what our clinical and academic leaders think, and the health and wellbeing needs of our local population.
The strategy also supports our overarching Patient First improvement strategy and sets out how it will be able to show the success of these actions.
Through the strategy, we want to:
- Engage with patients and staff to ensure our research is driven by their needs
- Embed research and innovation in the organisation and in the daily lives of our patients and staff
- Offer research and innovation career opportunities for our staff
- Develop high-quality research and innovation support services and facilities
- Develop partnerships across Sussex with other NHS organisations, our medical school, other academic partners, charities and commercial partners
- Improve care for our patients, the NHS and beyond
For our patients
All our patients will be offered the opportunity to take part in high quality research and innovation.
We will make sure that by 2028:
- We will do more research that makes a difference to people’s health and wellbeing
- More patients will know about research and innovation
- More patients will have a positive experience of taking part in research
- More patients and members of the public will have the opportunity to help design or run research trials
For our staff
The strategy will empower our staff to build research and innovation into their careers.
We will make sure that by 2028:
- More of our staff are research active
- More staff will benefit from our research training and from the help that we give them to make teaching and learning about research part of their job
- More of the research we do is led by UHSussex or local partnerships
For our partners
We will work with and share knowledge with partners in the NHS, universities across Sussex, local charities and community organisations helping improve the quality of care we provide.
We will make sure that by 2028:
- We are working with partners to do research that is important, helping to improve the health of the local population and how healthcare is provided.
- Our researchers are getting the help they need to do research
- We are doing more research with other NHS organisations, with universities and community partners
- We are getting more funding to help us to do more, and better
,research, including more opportunities for matched funding with partner organisations