Our Strategic Intentions and Objectives

 Patients
We provide excellent, timely and personal healthcare close to home

  • We will demonstrate improvement in the delivery of high quality, safe, excellent and effective personal community healthcare for our patients
  • We will make it easier for patients and carers to access our services where and when they need them.
 Community
We involve people by working together with the community to improve well-being

  • We will work with local communities to improve services that support their health and well-being and we will establish targets that demonstrate we are achieving this
  • We will engage with stakeholders and the local community to ensure that we develop a community organisation that is recognised as contributing to the lives of the local population.
 Organisation
We adopt best practice and manage our organisation to
be efficient, innovative and accountable

  • We will be financially secure and accountable across our entire organisation
  • We will deliver value for money by ensuring efficiency in all our activity and processes to enable and drive innovation
  • We will achieve NHS Foundation Trust status by 2013 and be assessed as a leading provider of community healthcare by 2015
 People
We empower and continuously develop our team to be caring, professional and motivated

  • We will develop world class skills, competencies and expertise to deliver high quality care through our workforce planning and education, to be seen as the employer of choice
  • We will engage with our staff, fostering talent and developing leaders, to deliver change, innovation and improvemen.