Corporate objectives

1. Ensure patients receive safe, high quality, timely and efficient and effective services based on best practice and national benchmarks.

2. Deliver healthcare advice and treatment in the right place, at the right time, with the minimum number of steps in the patient pathway and suitable environmental facilities.

3. Develop and expand services, involving stakeholders, that promote, protect and improve the health of the local community, meeting their current and future needs.

4. Ensure we provide the relevant skills within the workforce to support our services now and in the future while ensuring a competent, efficient and highly motivated workforce.

5. Meet targets set in the Trust's Integrated Business Plan including statutory financial duties, healthcare contract requirements and performance standards monitored by external regulators.