GSTT+vision,+values+&+priorities


 * __GSTT__**

“**Over the next five years, the Trust will continue to provide top quality care to the local community and become both the first choice for clinical care in South East England (from Kent to Hampshire), and internationally distinctive in research, teaching and the management of health services”**
 * __Vision (formed in July 2004)__**


 * __Values__**
 * 1) Put patients first
 * 2) Take pride in what we do
 * 3) Respect others
 * 4) Strive to be the best
 * 5) Act with integrity

Ways of demonstrating our values are:

Putting patients first

 * Caring for patients as individuals
 * Treating patients with compassion
 * Judging every issue by considering the outcome for patients
 * Giving priority to actions that will improve patient care and promote patient safety
 * Listening to and acting on the views of patients and their carers

Taking pride in what we do

 * Leading by example
 * Promoting confidence in colleagues, teams and the organisation
 * Recognising and rewarding achievement
 * Valuing our workplace
 * Celebrating success
 * Learning from experience

Respecting others

 * Showing commitment to working together
 * Contributing to effective teamwork
 * Supporting and collaborating with colleagues
 * Appreciating and celebrating diversity in staff and patients
 * Engaging with and supporting our local community
 * Working in partnership with others outside the trust

Striving to be the best

 * Constantly seeking to improve quality and efficiency
 * Eradicating waste of resources, time and effort
 * Seeing change as an opportunity rather than a problem
 * Challenging the status quo
 * Tenacity in achieving goals
 * Resilience in the face of setbacks

Acting with integrity

 * Maintaining the highest standards of behaviour and accountability
 * Openness and honesty in communication
 * Working to ethical principles
 * Respecting confidentiality
 * Doing the right thing for the right reasons

1. Quality: Providing services of the highest quality, with patient safety at their heart, designed to be responsive to the needs of the individual patient and their family//.// 2. Operational and financial performance: Ensuring that the Trust seeks constantly to improve the efficiency and productivity of its services, to avoid wasting any resource and to sustain the Trust's ability to generate surpluses for reinvestment in service improvement and development.
 * __Trust Priorities 2008/09__**
 * //Patient safety:// The Trust has undertaken a review of patient safety initiatives and has established a Patient Safety Programme Board to oversee and co-ordinate activity. A diverse range of projects are underway in all clinical services. Following a risk analysis the Programme Board has identified five key trust wide objectives for 2008/09. These are medication, medical records, outcome measures, team working and medical equipment.
 * //Infection Control:// The Trust will maintain current performance in relation to hand hygiene and Saving Lives High Impact Interventions and further reduce hospital acquired infections. See section (c) below re meeting all regulatory standards.
 * //Patient & Public Involvement:// the Trust will implement the Patient & Public Involvement Strategy which was approved by the Board of Directors in February 2007.
 * //Dignity Challenge:// Five key dignity objectives for 2008/09 have been agreed which focus on customer care, leadership, information for service users, environment and engaging service users.

There are a number of key objectives for both clinical and non-clinical services for 2008/09 that underpin the Trust's drive to improve further its operational efficiency and productivity. These include theatre productivity, eliminating unnecessary waiting and implementing the Enterprise Project.

3. Strategic development: Developing the Trust's role as a leading centre of clinical and research excellence, meeting the needs of the populations it serves into the future.

The Trust will pursue a number of strategic initiatives during 2008/09 which will either be part of our work to develop the //Academic Health Sciences Centre// with King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts and King's College London, or closely linked. These will include:

4. Regulatory compliance: Meeting the requirements of the Trust's various external regulators at a consistently high standard, exceeding those requirements wherever this is strategically or commercially advantageous to the trust. The Trust has a strong track record for its compliance with statutory, policy and regulatory requirements. During 2008/09, key objectives under this strategic priority will include achieving national targets including the 18 week pathway targets, and maintaining full compliance with the requirements of the Health Act, the Healthcare Commission and the NHS Litigation Authority.
 * //Research:// building on the work to put into place the National Institute for Health Research schemes for research.
 * //Clinical Education:// establishing a Clinical Education Directorate and to contribute towards the development of the AHSC's Educational Academy.
 * //Outer South East London:// working with colleagues in the boroughs of Bromley, Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham to develop proposals for the future delivery of services, in particular at Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust
 * //Out of Hospital care:// To work with colleagues in primary care to transfer services where appropriate from the Trust's existing sites to community-based facilities or patients' own homes.
 * //Sustainability:// To champion a sustainability agenda for the Trust, that will continue to focus on reducing energy consumption within the Trust and raising internal and external awareness of good energy management practice.