The Isle of Wight NHS Trust have launched a public consultation to ensure they are concentrating on the right strategic priorities.
Over the last three months work has been underway to review the Isle of Wight NHS Trust’s strategy. One year on from the publication of the NHS Five Year Forward View and recognising the success of the My Life a Full Life programme in attracting development funding, the Trust has taken the opportunity to review its current strategy ‘Beyond Boundaries’.
Katie Gray, the Executive Director at the Trust leading the work says:
“Our purpose in doing this is to ensure we are concentrating on the right strategic priorities. We need to ensure we are ready to embrace the opportunities that the My Life a Full Life initiative will bring to the wider health and wellbeing system, including social care and housing and therefore we need to be sure we are concentrating on the right Strategic priorities.
“We have undertaken an examination of the factors impacting on and influencing the delivery of good quality, safe, sustainable, efficient and effective services to people and we understand the factors limiting or inhibiting the delivery of these.”
The static population of the Island is one of the oldest in the country. Currently there are 50% more people over the age of 65 compared to the England average and in 20 years it is predicted there will be significantly more. Of these, one in three are likely to get dementia whilst others will have long term conditions and factors like these influence the type of care the Trust needs to deliver.
According to the IOW NHS Trust, they have defined their strategic priorities as follows:
- Align sustainable services to the needs of patients, carers and people who use services by
- Designing efficient and effective treatment and care pathways
- Maximising the person’s experience
- Providing 24/7 community services for the range of people with mental health need
- Providing services across the seven days of the week
- Become a centre of excellence for the care of older people
- Provide excellent end of life care
- Become excellent in the provision of dementia services
The work also states that the strategic enablers, what the Trust will put in place, are:
- A workforce embracing integration
- Efficient processes with minimum waste
- An IT Infrastructure and Processes geared to enabling effective delivery and support, aligned with the My Life a Full Life priorities
To read or download the draft Trust Strategy in full and have more details on the proposed strategic priorities visit https://www.iow.nhs.uk/getting-involved/have-your-say/iw-nhs-trust-strategy-2016-2020.htm.
Island residents have until 20th January 2016 to comment on the proposed proiritiesby answering an online survey at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TrustStrategy, by emailing [email protected] or by telephoning 01983 822099 ext 6175. You can also send your comments to Trust Strategy Consultation, Communications, Engagement and Membership Team, St Mary’s Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG.
There will be an opportunity to meet with the Trust at a number of public places during January. The dates and locations of these will be posted soon at www.iow.nhs.co.uk.
