What is a chaplain?
Chaplains offer spiritual care to all patients and their carers, friends and family.
Each chaplain is a leader in their own faith but they also work with people with any faith or no faith.
Our chaplains
A chaplain is on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Members of the chaplaincy team are happy to talk to patients and their families, not only about specifically religious matters, but about any more general spiritual concerns.
Our chapels and prayer rooms
Royal Sussex County Hospital chapel
The hospital chapel is on the first floor of the Barry Building. It is open to everyone, day and night, for quiet or for prayer.
Princess Royal Hospital chapel
The PRH chapel is on the first floor of the main building. It is open to everyone, day and night, for quiet or for prayer.
Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital Oasis
The Oasis is on the first floor of Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital. It is always open to everyone, day and night, for quiet or for prayer.
Muslim prayer rooms
The PRH prayer room is by the chapel.
The RSCH prayer room is on the first floor of the Barry Building, opposite the top of the stairs that lead up from main reception.
Friday prayers for the Muslim community are held at 1pm on Fridays in the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital Oasis
Contact us
In emergencies, the switchboard operator can contact the chaplain directly for you.
In non-emergencies, ask the switchboard to put you through to the following phone numbers:
- Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Department for Brighton, extn. 4122.
- Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Department for Haywards Heat, extn. 8232.
