This is from Jo at the Isle of Wight NHS Trust. Don’t miss your chance to help shape the healthcare service in the future. Ed
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is asking for the public’s views on how the organisation plans to deliver healthcare in future.
The ‘Clinical Strategy’ describes how the Trust aims to deliver patient care in a radically different way by working beyond our current boundaries.
A highly integrated model of health and social care
The strategy document explains how this can improve the quality and efficiency of services to meet the needs and expectations of current and future patients.
It also describes how the Trust aims to work more closely with partner organisations, including the Isle of Wight Council and primary care providers to develop a highly integrated model of health and social care on the Island.
Healthcare provision to change drastically
Over the next five years, the way care is provided will change drastically as we evolve to meet the needs of an increasingly elderly Island population with complex health issues.
In the future, more patients who would currently be referred to St Mary’s Hospital will be cared for in the community. This will be supported by an NHS leading, highly integrated IT system, which will provide new opportunities and better ways of working.
The Trust’s Executive Medical Director, Dr Mark Pugh, said:
“Our clinical vision for the next five years and beyond envisages a Trust which continues to supply the fullest range of services possible, providing these services are of appropriate quality, and can be delivered within a cost the local health economy can afford.
“However, how we deliver our services will change fundamentally as we rapidly develop highly integrated services with our Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Isle of Wight Council. Services will be characterised by high quality, and led by our frontline clinicians.
“Our staff will be developed and empowered to work in our unique environment in a sustainable way, in an environment that will be optimised for our services.”
Find out more and have your say
The ‘IOW NHS Trust ‘Clinical Strategy’ Strategy can be downloaded from the ‘Get Involved’ section of the Isle of Wight NHS Trust website.
Comments on the strategy should be emailed to [email protected] or sent to Business & Projects Co-ordinator to the Medical Director, South Block, St Mary’s Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG by Tuesday 15th July 2014.
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