Vision and Mission

Our Trust vision provides the framework for our mission statement, strategic goals and five year plan. We face some exciting challenges and an exciting future. Changes in national and local health policy and potential service reconfigurations in the region mean we will need to continue to adapt and evolve our services in order to ensure we continually meet the needs of the people we serve. As a specialist Trust we will do this by:

Providing excellent healthcare for women and their babies. Our care will continue to be focussed on patient needs. We will support the health of women through their pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period. Our care will range from highly specialist clinical interventions to personal focussed care for women with uncomplicated, low risk births. Our care for the mother will continue to be complemented by support for babies including specialist neonatal care where clinically required.

Supporting fertility and gynaecological health. We will provide focussed services for women and their partners who need medical or surgical healthcare, either because they may be trying unsuccessfully to conceive or because of disorders with the female reproductive system.

Providing a focussed range of highly specialist clinical and clinical support services where our specialist focus can ensure they are regional and ultimately national centres of excellence. These include the fields of laboratory and clinical genetics, perinatal pathology and specialist fields of perinatal medicine (for example fetal medicine).

The theme that draws our services together is specialisation hence our ambition to continue being UK leaders in a limited number of clinical areas. In some cases being the best will simply mean providing high quality, person focussed support for local people in one of the most important events in their lives - childbirth; in others it will mean some of the most specialist doctors, nurses and other clinical staff providing tertiary and even quarternary care.

Our unique position as a focussed provider with a limited range of service allows for a real organisational focus on our specialised services. Our mission is clear.

“We will be the local and regional provider of choice and Centre of Excellence for our focussed range of healthcare services primarily, though not exclusively to women and their families. We will continue to be a leading provider of local, regional and national importance through the provision of a high quality and specialist range of distinct, but interrelated services delivering excellent healthcare, education, training and research, and contributing to the health and wellbeing of the people we serve.”

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