DGT Clinical Strategy 2020 - 2025

Delivering the Strategy

The clinical strategy supports the delivery of the Trust’s strategic priorities:

Journey to outstanding

Working together

Each strategic priority is underpinned by a series of objectives and measures. The key measures for the Clinical Strategy in the first two years include:

• Successful implementation of a comprehensive stroke service • Clarity on the direction of trauma services for the Trust

Specialist services

• An agreed strategy for children and young people • Revised policies and procedures including new unwell child pathway

Children and young people

• Increase in non face-to-face outpatient attendances • Reduced ED attendances and reduced length of stay in ICP respiratory, cardiology, frailty, gastroenterology and end of life care, as a result of integrated pathways across acute and community services • Reduction in surgical ED attendances due to Surgical Assessment unit • RTT delivery against plan through optimisation of the Planned Care Centre at QMH

Integration and pathways

Excellence

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Clinical Strategy Summary