Client
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
The NHS trust delivering community health and care services across Sussex.
About the work
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust teams care for people in their own homes, in clinics and in community hospitals, from district nursing and rehabilitation to specialist children’s services. Based at Brighton General Hospital, it serves communities from Brighton and Hove to rural West and East Sussex.
The Trust’s sustainability programme, Care Without Carbon, is working to cut the environmental impact of healthcare while improving care. It’s one of the most established green NHS programmes in the country, and it recognises that the shift to more sustainable healthcare has to be shaped with patients and the public, not done to them.
In 2025, the Trust appointed Always Possible to set up and run a representative patient and public engagement group for Care Without Carbon. We co-led the work with associate Sonia Mangan, a former charity chief executive who began her career as a nurse and Jane Lodge, a former NHS Director. The group brought together people from across Sussex to explore what greener healthcare means for them and to advise the Trust on its net zero and sustainable healthcare goals.
Over the course of 2026, we recruited the panel, ran regular deliberative sessions and training, and reported to the Care Without Carbon team at the midpoint and the end. A light-touch advisory group of Care Without Carbon leads, the NHS Sussex engagement lead and voluntary sector partners helped us check the panel’s balance and sense-check findings as the work went along.
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