Research and development

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Last updated on Friday, 20 January 2012 15:54

At Sussex Partnership we pride ourselves on our excellent research culture. We aim to contribute to the evidence base in improving experiences, creating new knowledge and improving outcomes in mental health. This work is led by our Research and Development Department.

High quality research plays an integral part in the development of 21st century healthcare services within the NHS. As a teaching Trust our links with universities keep us at the forefront of these new developments. 

For staff, the opportunity to learn new skills and be part of a quality research organisation leads to the recruitment and retention of a high calibre, research-minded workforce.

What is research?

The Department of Health defines research as 'the attempt to derive generalisable new knowledge by addressing clearly defined questions with systematic and rigorous methods.'

(Research Governance Framework for Health & Social Care, DH 2005)

This work involves: 

• NHS patients, data, NHS premises or facilities, or staff.
• Results expected to influence practice or processes outside the immediate service setting.

Research is not audit or service evaluation. If you are in any doubt about this regarding your work, please contact the R&D Department immediately.

Research priorities 

Sussex Partnership Trust aspires to instigate, lead and host research studies and programmes that can impact upon the development of theory and practice nationwide. For this reason, studies on the National Institute for Health Research portfolio are considered a priority.

Sussex Partnership welcomes research studies from the commercial sector and we work within many areas of clinical research, from Phase II to IV. Please see our Industry Sponsored pages for more detail.

All future research hosted by the Trust will meet the Trust's service standards and fall into one of the Trust research themes. 

Research Findings

Viewpoint Survey

Sussex Partnership is hosting a 5-year study looking at changing the public's attitude and behaviour towards people with a mental health problem (in partnership with Rethink and The Institute of Psychiatry King's College London). Sussex Partnership was involved in the 2009 study and a brief summary of the findings is now available.

Conflict & Containment (CONSEQ)

Sussex Partnership hosted a study with the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London to better understand the sqequence of conflict & containment. The aim was to identify conflict behaviours exhibited by patients, containment methods used by staff, the order of these events and the characteristice of events involved in them. The initial findings are now available.