Our Strategy
Our five year strategy
Our Purpose
- A provider of high quality healthcare to our local population
- The centre for complex and specialist medicine for Norfolk and East Anglia
- A recognised centre for excellence in research, education and innovation
- A leader in helping redesign our health and care system to better align it to the needs of our population
Our Challenges
- Providing for the changing needs of our population
- Seeing more patients with long-term conditions with multiple needs and more complex arrangements around their discharge from hospital
- The need to innovate to provide new specialist treatments and procedures
- A difficult financial climate.
- Challenges in recruiting some staff
Our Five Year Objectives
Goal 1 – To be a provider of high quality health and care services to our local population
- Develop our physical capacity
- Develop our digital capacity
- Develop services at Cromer Hospital
- Reduce unnecessary variation and adopt best practice
- Implement a 24/7 acute hospital service
Goal 2 – To be the centre for complex and specialist medicine for Norfolk and the Anglia region
- Strengthen our specialist services
- Become recognised as a centre of excellence for cancer, neurosciences and heart attack services
- Invest in facilities and staff to ensure we are able to build our range of specialist services e.g. ITU and diagnostic services
Goal 3 – To be a centre of excellence for research, education and staff development
- Promote a stronger research culture
- Develop new models of education and work based learning
- Use values and behaviours to invest in leadership
- Invest in the well being of our staff and develop innovative recruitment plans
- Play a leading role in the Quadram Institute
- Build links across the East of England to promote the life science industry e.g. clinical trials, large-scale data analysis and evaluation of medical devices
Goal 4 – To be a leader in the redesign and delivery of health and social care services in Norfolk
- Collaborate with our acute hospital partners in Norfolk
- Work with the Norfolk and Waveney STP to help ensure our financial well being
- Work with primary, community and social care to improve how we look after our older patients and those with long-term conditions
- Work with our partners to reduce demand for emergency admission and the time spent in hospital