What

Sussex MSK Partnership Central (SMSKPC) provide musculoskeletal services, covering specialities including orthopaedics, pain, rheumatology, and physiotherapy which:
• Enable people to maintain good musculoskeletal health
• Provide support for those who need assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of musculoskeletal conditions
• Provide routes for people to self-manage their condition and help steward patients through other options for their care, including rehabilitation and surgery

Where

SMSKPC provides services across central Sussex, including Brighton and Hove, Crawley, Horsham, and Mid Sussex.

How

Our aim has always been to ensure people make informed choices over their care, supporting them to grow their knowledge, skills and confidence to understand and manage their own health. Through our work in SMSKPC, we have seen this paradigm shift towards self and community management, that has created the capacity to ensure those people who do require interventions. like surgery, have better access and higher quality care. We have worked hard to ensure that our website offers high quality resources, to assisting people manage their symptoms or condition and also to improve their overall health.

Who

Sussex MSK Partnership Central is delivered by Here, in partnership with Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust. Over the last 8 years, we have managed over 485,000 referrals, serving the population of 700,000 people across Central Sussex: Brighton and Hove, Crawley, Horsham and Mid-Sussex. We hold the prime contract, which means we steward the entire budget for MSK care of approx £51 million annually of taxpayers’ money. SMSKPC hold the responsibility of being a commissioner, bringing together and joining up all the required services to ensure comprehensive MSK care, ranging from counselling to wrist splints to knee surgery. We manage sub-contracts with 8 different secondary care providers across Sussex.

Our Partners

Here | SCFT