Strategic Outline Case

The Strategic Outline Case sets out the case for change and outlines why the Trust is undertaking this project. The reason for undertaking the project is the need to source a strategic partner for the Trust to enable it to achieve foundation trust status by March 2014 in accordance with its Tripartite Formal Agreement. Various options for a strategic partnership are considered within the SOC, and it also provides an introduction to the emerging themes falling out of early work undertaken to assess these options.