Our action plan

High quality care

• Deliver refreshed clinical and care strategy
• Deliver refreshed quality strategy
• Deliver national Planning Guidance requirements
• Develop delivery plan against Core20Plus5 groups
• Support personalised care planning, shared decision-making, and patient empowerment
• Work closely with patients, families, and carers to develop our services
• Implement approach to continuous quality improvement.

Joined-up services

• Take an inclusive approach to develop services with all our partners
• Enhance and accelerate our partnership working with primary care
• Develop integrated neighbourhood health and care services with all partners, including mental health, social care, and the voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector
• Deliver Sustainability Review recommendations with ESNEFT and the Integrated Care Board
• Develop appropriate mechanisms that enable us to improve collaboration with partners including asset sharing
• Empower our people to resolve operational barriers between organisations
• Maximise opportunities to expand our autonomy as a Foundation Trust.

Empowered to improve

• Deliver a medium-term workforce plan
• Develop an improved workforce ‘offer’ for colleagues
• Improve communication and engagement with colleagues
• Strengthen divisional and service leadership structures
• Enhance the Trust’s approach to equality, diversity, and inclusion
• Implement a balanced ‘performance framework’ for colleagues
• Remove non-value-added processes to free-up staff time
• Ensure our facilities are accessible for colleagues with disabilities.

Responsible with resources

• Deliver a medium-term financial plan
• Work with commissioners to incentivise transformation
• Implement rigorous financial control processes
• All services complete a service line review of their productivity
• Review all services’ contract specifications
• Embed a sustainable Trust-wide approach to CIP delivery
• Develop our commercial approach to maximise income generation
• Improve corporate systems to enhance decision-making and reporting
• Improve financial training for staff.

Fit for tomorrow

• Work closely with partners and the New Hospital Programme to prepare for our new hospital
• Deliver modernised working practices through digital transformation to improve quality, reduce costs, and free-up time, whilst being mindful of the risk of ‘digital exclusion’ that could affect some patients
• Strengthen innovation, research, and development
• Continually improve our infrastructure including estate, environment, and equipment to provide the best possible facilities for patients
• Improve access to information to support local decision-making
• Take a system approach to planning services with our partners
• Ensure patients are empowered to take control of their health
• Deliver our Green Plan
• Develop our role as an ‘anchor institution’.