[1] Before 2022 healthcare provision was the responsibility of seven Clinical Commissioning Groups covering: Brighton and Hove; Coastal West Sussex; Horsham and Mid Sussex; Crawley; Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford; Hastings and Rother; High Weald; and Lewes-Havens from 2013 to 2020.
The county was divided into district health authorities based in Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings in the East which were amalgamated in 1994.
[4] The plans were criticised by the Care Quality Commission in 2018 as it had not started to function properly “due to a lack of investment and infrastructure”.
The former NHS Improvement deputy chief executive Bob Alexander was appointed as chair in October 2017.
[5] The contract for care and support at home in Chichester, worth £275 million, was the biggest tender offered by the NHS in 2015.
[6] In March 2017 Coastal West Sussex CCG was placed under legal directions by NHS England after “serious performance, planning, financial and leadership weaknesses” and an overspend of £27 million were discovered.
[14] Proposals to transfer musculoskeletal services in West Sussex to Bupa CSH - a partnership between Bupa and Central Surrey Health were abandoned in January 2015 when it was concluded that trauma services at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust would become unviable if the deal went ahead.
[15] The leaders of East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust were urged to resign by the East Sussex County Council health overview and scrutiny committee and by Hastings Borough Council after a damning Care Quality Commission report in March 2015.
[17] Patient Transport Services were contracted to Coperforma, a private company based in Andover from April 2016.
[21] The main provider of Mental Health Services is Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
In May 2014 the consortium won a five-year musculoskeletal contract worth £210m from Brighton and Hove, Crawley and Horsham and Mid Sussex clinical commissioning groups.