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The reported cyber-attack affecting NHS systems and subsequent access to patient records, is having a minimal effect on the systems used by Sussex Partnership. 

Heads On, the official charity for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation, Trust has been selected as one of Brighton Marathon Weekend's local charity partners for 2023.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has received the highest level of accreditation in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme Award programme for their commitment to supporting the armed forces community.

The research into mental health and wellbeing at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has been recognised with the appointment of a further member of its research team to a professorship.

Planning permission has been granted to build a new 54-bed mental health hospital on a site in Mount View Street, Bexhill-on-Sea, to replace out-dated services at the Department of Psychiatry in Eastbourne. 

A small ceremony took place last month at the Aldrington Centre in Hove, in memory of a local art psychotherapist who worked in the city for many years, supporting children and young people with mental health difficulties.

An NHS manager has raised over £1000 by completing the South Downs Centurion challenge in less than 30 hours.

New ways of working are changing the lives of people with mental health problems in Sussex.

The Children and Young People's Sussex Mental Healthline went live on Monday 4 July 2022. An extension of the existing Sussex Mental Healthline, there are now mental health trained clinicians in the service to support calls from children, young people, parents and carers.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is supporting the Trans Pride Brighton festival on 16 July.