Core themes

Our strategic aims are underpinned by three core themes that guide our decision making and shape our services. The themes are health inequalities, equality, diversity and inclusion, and continuous improvement. They are not standalone priorities but are integral to every strategic aim and objective: shaping how we design our services, utilise our resources and measure our success. Each strategic plan will consider and address these core themes. 

Tackling health inequalities is a national priority and each strategic plan will address how we can reduce gaps in access, experience and outcomes, ensuring all the communities we serve can benefit from improved health and wellbeing. Our new Health Inequalities Framework will inform this work and provides direction for each of the strategic plans.

We are committed to an active approach to equality, diversity and inclusion where it informs our service design and the equity of the care we provide. Taking visible and meaningful steps to eliminate discrimination; to improve the diversity of our thinking through better representation in our workforce and to create an inclusive environment which enables our people to be at their best.

We strive to become an improvement organisation, meaning that we will empower our people to apply improvement methods to continuously learn, adapt and enhance the quality of our care and services. This improvement approach will become the method or ‘the how’ through which we deliver our strategic aims and the detail of ‘the what’ we will improve should be embedded into every strategic plan.