The health and care system in Surrey and Sussex, similar to many other systems, faces a defining challenge over the next decade. While headline health outcomes remain comparatively strong, they mask persistent and widening inequalities, alongside a deterioration in healthy life expectancy. People across our communities are living longer, but too many of those additional years are spent in poor health, driving rising demand, growing complexity and unsustainable pressure on health and care services.
Without decisive change, these trends will continue to accelerate, challenging quality, access, experience and long-term system sustainability.
As strategic commissioner we have a real opportunity to address this challenge.
Our overall vision therefore is to improve healthy life expectancy and secure the clinical and financial sustainability of our health and care system for the next generation.
Essentially, we will do this through:
- Earlier intervention across the life course
- Targeted action at neighbourhood level
- Ensuring services designed around people’s whole health rather than single conditions or considering organisational boundaries.
In line with the Government’s three left-shifts as set out in the new 10 Year Health Plan – from treatment to prevention; from hospital to community; from analogue to digital.
You can read more about our plans and wider priorities by following the links below.