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very day, SCFT staff touch the lives of more than 9,000 adults and children, providing medical, nursing, and therapeutic care in people’s own homes, community hospitals, care homes, GP surgeries, schools and other community venues. The specialist teams include nurses, doctors, health visitors, occupational therapists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, speech and language therapists and healthcare assistants, who care for people from their earliest days until their final moments – from health visitors supporting new mums to specialist community teams offering end of life care and everything in between. Teams help people, and their families, plan for and manage
Everything is underpinned by a vision to provide excellent care at the heart of the community
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) is the largest provider of NHS community services in Brighton and Hove, West Sussex and the High Weald, Lewes, and Havens area of East Sussex as Adele Trathan explains changes in their health, and support them to live well independently. Everything is underpinned by a vision to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. You may not realise it, but you or someone you know has probably been supported by one of SCFT’s community services. Did you know… l SCFT have set up and currently run five large-scale Covid-19 vaccination centres across Sussex, recruiting more than 1,200 staff and 1,000 volunteers, who have so far given more than 600,000 vaccinations. l Health visitors offer both antenatal and postnatal support to new mums,
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