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