Our University Hospitals Tees (UHT) strategy sets out how we will work together to achieve our vision, our values and our strategic objectives.
The challenges and opportunities that face us in the future mean that we need to be clear on the direction for the group and to set ambition for how we are going to make a difference for our population over the next decade.
We have listened carefully to what our patients, carers and the wider population have told us about what they want from their healthcare services and to what our staff have told us about how they want to see our services develop. We continue to work with our communities to engage and hear about their ambitions for health and care services across our region.
We have several national priorities to deliver including moving care from hospitals into the community, adopting more advanced digital technology and preventing illness, not just treating it.
This has to be balanced alongside financial and workforce pressures and working collaboratively to ensure our patients receive the highest standards of care.
Our objectives
Our strategy sets out how we will work together to achieve our vision and values and our strategic objectives:
- Consistent high quality care
- Outstanding experience for our people
- Working with partners
- Reforming models of care
- Excellence as a learning organisation
- Using our resources well
The strategy outlines how we will work together to transform our ways of working to enhance our services and continue to improve the care that we provide for the population we serve.
Strategy on a page

Vision
Caring better together
To continuously improve the lives and wellbeing of the communities we serve.
Values
- Respect
- Support
- Collaborate
Strategic objectives
- Consistent high quality care
- Outstanding experience for our people
- Working with partners
- Reforming models of care
- Excellence as a learning organisation
- Using our resources well
Three pillars of reform
Patients and populations
- Clinical strategy: left shift into community
- Clinical strategy: integrating at scale
- Clinical strategy: developing our tertiary services
People
- Continuous improvement
- Workforce transformation
- Leadership and culture
Partnership and places
- Tackling health inequalities
- Anchor institution
- Education, research and innovation
Enablers
- Quality, effectiveness, experience, safety
- Digital, data and technology
- Estates and the environment
- Finance and productivity
- Operating model
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Have your say
You are invited to join University Hospitals Tees and Healthwatch Tees Valley for an important conversation about the future of health and care services across Tees Valley.
- Hear from University Hospitals Tees about how your feedback has shaped service delivery.
- Share your views on other care pathways.
- Help us gather more insight into how services can work better for local communities.
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