Summary
The recent launch of our new strategic vision to 2030 – reinforcing our commitment towards more equitable services, the Queensland government’s ongoing objectives for the community and National Health Reforms – provides a new roadmap and pathways to achieve better health, together across the South West.
The South West Hospital and Health Board is required by legislation to maintain a rolling four-year Strategic Plan, setting out its key vision, purpose and wider objectives for our communities. With our new underpinning core values of WE CARE - namely Wellbeing, Engagement, Courage, Accountability, Respect and Equity – highlighted in our previous edition of the Pulse, we now turn our attention to key areas of focus for the years ahead.
“Building on our ongoing commitment towards Closing the Gap in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Equity outcomes – and delivering exceptional care to everyone, regardless of background, identity, or circumstances – areas of focus, across 25 key deliverables, will build a stronger health service and create better outcomes for our communities,” Health Service Chief Executive Dr Anthony Brown said.
“Reflecting our Board’s wide strategic lens, our priorities are structured across the following areas:
- Our people: Empowering teams to deliver high-quality, culturally safe and clinically appropriate services – and expand homegrown workforce opportunities, including school-based pathways, across all workstreams and professions.
- Our places: Delivering further early intervention and health promotion programs that improve health and change outcomes for life and, through co-design and delivery, provide outcome focussed health services that empower communities to take ownership of their health journey.
- Our partners: Working together in driving meaningful improvements across social factors impacting health and wellbeing – by further enhancing primary health pathways between community, General Practice and acute providers.
- Our performance: Enhancing real-time data to support equitable, collaborative and transparent decision making and accountability – enabling us to work closer with our partners to progress shared access to data that supports a seamless patient journey.
- Our future: Collaborating to support and expand rural and remote research capabilities, and clinical trial participation – and looking ahead to plan, and deliver, innovative services for the future.”
- Progression of a wide range of deliverables will be driven through annual operational plans and other statewide and national initiatives, with progress shared through formal annual reports and other regular updates and communications.
To ensure the plan remains fit for purpose, it will also be reviewed annually by the Board and adjusted as further opportunities arise. View the Strategic Plan here.