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Our vision

Working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward.

Putting
Patients First

Our Vision

Working in partnership
to provide the best healthcare for our
communities, leading and supporting our
teams to move 4ward

Our Strategic Objectives

Best services for local people
Best experience of care and outcomes for our patients
Best use of resources
Best people

Our Signature Behaviours

We Do What We Say We Will Do

We Listen, We Learn, We Lead

We Plan For No Delays, Every Day

We Work Together, We Celebrate Together

Clinical Services Strategy

Our Enabling Strategies

Quality and
Safety

People and
Culture

Estates

Digital

Medium Term
Financial Plan

Communications

4ward Improvement System

Our 4ward Behaviours

All staff across the Trust are asked to adhere to our 4ward Behaviours. These are the heart of our 4ward programme. A long-term, far-reaching initiative which aims to help colleagues across our Trust collectively work together. As we tackle the challenges we face and make the most of the opportunities that the future will bring.

Our focus going 4ward is twofold. Therefore, we want to transform our culture whilst at the same time improving our performance across the whole of Trust. Particularly around our wide-ranging quality improvement programme, improving the flow for patients who attend our Emergency Departments, our preparations for winter and our efforts to achieve financial stability.

Our aim is to have all our staff positively demonstrating these behaviours and working together to achieve our shared goals. 

Our 4ward Behaviours

Making the Trust a better place for our staff, our patients and our local community is the ultimate goal of 4ward. So we want everyone to focus on how we behave, what we deliver and create a culture we can all be proud of.

Quality and Safety Plan

Our quality and patient safety plan will improve the quality and safety of care provided to our patients. It aims to focus our improvement on the key outcomes that will achieve our vision

Our quality priorities have been identified through our “Big Quality Conversation”. A robust risk assessment process, engagement with stakeholders, partners and forums, to reflect the things that matter most to us.

Read the Quality and Patient Safety Plan 2022 – 25 for more information.