About the strategy
Conducting high-quality research and using research-generated evidence to transform our services and practice are essential components of any effective health and care system. Research helps us make health and care advances, improve the outcomes and experience of people through their health and care journey, and deliver services more effectively. It improves the performance of our system and helps us develop and attract research expertise and funding into the region. Ultimately research benefits our public and communities, patients, workforce, health and care system, our academic partners, our society, and our economy.
Sussex is research active through its health and care providers, universities, and medical school, and it produces research outputs that are nationally and internationally impactful. It has unique data assets such as our Sussex Integrated Dataset and Secure Data Environment and is home to key players in the life sciences and technology sector. Yet to date, the region has not fully realised the benefits of these opportunities - Sussex has some of the lowest health and care research participation in England.
This research strategy sets out how Sussex Health and Care - which includes all our Sussex Health and Care providers and our local authorities - will work together with our universities, medical school, and other research and innovation partners, to grow and embed research across our system and ensure our population, workforce, and system benefit fully from health and care research.
It focuses on research that helps the population of Sussex and the wider United Kingdom to live healthier lives, have access to the best possible services and treatments when they need them, and maximises the social, and economic benefits research offers to our health and care system and region.