POLICIES

Some emerging strands of health policy are as follows:

• Targets for health gain focusing on the main killers: cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke, accidents and mental illness .
• Achieving continuous quality improvement in health care by the continued implementation of Clinical Governance.
• Ensuring that health care professionals work more flexibly and in new partnerships to improve patient care.
• Developing a new strategy to enhance the contribution which nurses, midwives and health visitors make to health care.
• Achieving more efficiency and effectiveness in health care delivery by combining performance management, process review and the latest IT.

The preferred work styles are:

• More devolved decision-making, achieved through introducing Clinical Directorates
• More emphasis on doing fewer things really well at all levels to ensure we improve year on year
• More encouragement of a positive, proactive approach and partnership working
• More determination to tackle the difficult things as well as the things that come more easily
• more consistency by setting standards which are well communicated and well monitored
• more involvement of key people in the design and development of services, especially staff and patients
• more informed staff who are confident about the present and not fearful of the future.

The emerging vision indicates that we need to:

• maintain current initiatives in health strategy, the new management structure, Clinical Governance, IT, business planning, performance management and process review.
• secure our current services by addressing a number of deficits which are now becoming critical to our operation as our services undergo a step change to meet the increasing demands. This will require

considerable additional resource now.

• plan to reduce uncertainty and risk and ensure that we are able to prepare and adapt to The New Hospital, which will also demand additional resources.
• invest resources in reviewing our work processes in advance of implementing a new IT strategy with a view to achieving greater efficiency in the way we deliver health care.

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