This strategy has been shaped by what we know about the people we serve, including:
- Changing demographics
- Deprivation in some of our communities
- A focus on integrated care systems
Our priorities have been developed through open engagement with people, patients and partners.
Strategic aims
The trust’s strategic aims have been defined and ratified by the trust’s executive board.
Strategic aims
Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health: ensuring that women across Gateshead have access to personalised, evidence-based care throughout every stage of life.
Diagnostic services: providing safe, timely, and effective care across the organisation.
Commitment to high-quality integrated health services: delivering joined-up, patient-centred care.
Strategic areas
Our strategy is built around three strategic areas of focus:
- Patients
- People
- Partners
- Sustainability
Gateshead Health has four key priorities:
Excellent patient care
- We will be a clinically-led organisation focused on delivering safe, high-quality care and improving health outcomes for our patients
- We will ensure our patients experience the best possible compassionate care and make every contact count
- We will continually improve our services creating a restorative culture where learning, innovation and research can flourish
Great place to work
- We will care for our people, creating a fair, inclusive and respectful environment where everyone can thrive in their role
- We will grow and develop our people with a focus on celebrating achievements and creating a culture of high performance and innovationWe will be an employer and training provider of choice within the local workforce recognising our role as an anchor institution
Working together for healthier communities
- We will work in collaboration with our partners to improve the health of our population and reduce health inequalities
- We will develop our neighbourhoods in line with the NHS 10 year plan
- We will collaborate with system partners with an emphasis on maximising efficient use of collective resources across health and care services
Fit for the future
- We will ensure effective and efficient use of our resources identifying opportunities to improve productivity and ensure best use of public money
- We will be a data informed, digitally enabled organisation using technology to transform the way we plan and deliver care
- We will focus on productive utilisation of our estate to facilitate care in the right setting and providing our services in an environmentally sustainable way