Vision & Strategy - Vision
The vision sets the direction of travel for services and it should influence all the resultant shorter term decisions and in year changes to ensure progress is made in the right direction. It will be influenced by a wide range of factors including:
- national policy & targets
- national service frameworks
- guidance from the National Commission for Clinical Excellence
- health needs analysis
- the policies of partner agencies (particularly local government)
- the existing pattern of services
- redesigned care pathways
- clinical networks
- the views and preferences of local people and
- the expert knowledge and opinion of clinical and management staff in the local health community.
The vision is likely to comprise a short list of principles and value judgements about future direction, for example:
“When patients fall ill, their condition will be investigated, treated and managed in primary care in the future whenever that can be achieved cost effectively and to an appropriate clinical quality standard”.
“We will commission acute care for our patients on the basis of evidence of good clinical quality standards and in accord with patients’ choices and preferences about providers and location”.
Resources
Case Study 6 Tees Health Economy Commissioning Charter
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