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What we do

Our aim is to ensure patients have faster access to the highest quality services possible through:

  • Providing strategic oversight and leadership of the health care system across the West Midlands, based on the views and experiences of patients and the public.

  • Building the capacity and capability of local health services for the future, creating strong commissioning to ensure clinical excellence for patients and better value for money for taxpayers.

  • Developing strategic partnerships with other bodies at regional level to ensure more joined up services; combining efforts to reduce health inequalities.

  • Encouraging and supporting local innovation and reform, actively engaging clinicians in driving reform and leading service improvements for patients.

  • Informing and supporting national policy and be accountable to the Department of Health for the delivery of high performing local services.

  • Ensuring that patients and communities across the West Midlands get the full benefits of investment and reform as quickly as possible

  • NHS West Midlands also ensures that new Primary Care Trusts are fit for purpose so that they can become ‘World Class’ commissioners and supports Acute (hospital) Trusts to gain foundation status.

Our ambition

We now want to create a local NHS that builds from being good to great.  In July 2007, we consulted on a regional strategy, Investing for Health (IfH).   This explains how the NHS in the West Midlands is planning for the future.  Health services in the West Midlands have improved greatly in recent years; waiting times have fallen, fewer people are dying early from cancers and heart disease and the quality of many health service facilities has been transformed.

How are we making a difference?

We believe, however that the local NHS faces seven big challenges and that these must be addressed if we are to achieve great health services.

Through the strategy, local health services will:

  • Improve quality and safety of services
  • Get more people involved in their own healthcare
  • Deliver more care closer to home
  • Change health services to the changing needs of patients, public and staff.
  • Ensuring capacity in the local NHS to deliver high quality and safe care.
  • To implement these plans, ten areas of work have been agreed between the SHA and all the PCTs in the West Midlands.  We will report on the progress of these 10 projects on the website, and in public board meetings.  We will also involve patients and the public in how we measure progress.
  • We can make a significant impact on health and healthcare for the people of the West Midlands.

How you can get involved

We welcome your views on these plans – these are your health services. You can read the strategy and related documents are also available here.

  www.ifh.westmidlands.nhs.uk 

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