This strategy describes what we intend to achieve for our patients in the period between now and the end of 2011. This can be summarised in the following six major aims:
- Putting Patients First; enabling a patient centred organisational culture, by engaging and aligning all staff to add value to the patient experience, implemented through patient safety, service quality and Lean delivery
- Momentum – pathways to healthcare; delivering a new healthcare system for the people of Easington, Hartlepool, Sedgefield and Stockton
- Community integration; providing healthcare services to our communities in the right locations
- Manage our relationships; ensuring all relevant stakeholders are fully engaged in our service developments and plans through appropriate communications, engagement and partnership working
- Service development; improvement and growth in healthcare services that meets the needs of our patients, commissioners and the trust
- Maintain compliance and performance; strategic and operational effectiveness and scrutiny, with appropriate governance of all elements of our business and striving to achieve a level of excellence, ensuring compliance with core standards for Annual Health Check
The above will be achieved by a series of actions, projects and initiatives, but most importantly, by aligning every member of the trust to contribute to our success.