DGT Strategy 2020 - 2025

About the Trust

We are proud to provide excellent local services to people in North Kent and South East London. Geographically located in the north of Kent, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust provides services in Gravesham Community Hospital in Gravesend as well as a number of community locations across our population. The Trust offers a comprehensive range of acute services, with a bed-base of c500, to around 400,000 people in North Kent and South East London. Darent Valley Hospital has inpatient beds and specialities that include day-care surgery, general surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, cardiology, maternity and general medicine. Since October 2013, the Trust has provided a number of services at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, and Radiology at Erith and District Hospital. The services provided by the Trust at Queen Mary’s Hospital (QMH) include elective inpatient and day surgery and outpatient services in general surgery, urology, orthopaedics, gynaecology, medicine and paediatrics, in addition to diagnostics and therapies. We are in an area of exceptional growth with large housing developments underway and planned across the communities we serve. Our population is set to grow by 35,000 within 5 years and by 55,000 within 10 years. There are also plans to develop the biggest theme park in the UK nearby which will impact the transient population that we serve. Our 3,500 exceptionally talented and motivated staff are working to build a clinically-led organisation that provides outstanding care which is skilled, trusted and kind, every time. This is us.

Our Partnerships We directly serve the Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley communities and are part of a number of other local and regional relationships. We acknowledge that we are part of a larger healthcare economy with important responsibilities and opportunities for our role as a committed partner and collaborator in the system. Our strategy has been informed by the national and local context and the roles that we have. A joint collaboration between Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust, Medway NHS Foundation Trust and the North Kent Pathology Service is the first joint pathology service in Kent and Medway. Elements of the service are centralised at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and we continue to work together on the provision of effective and efficient pathology services.

Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley predicted population growth

Bexley predicted population growth

Year

2025

24,000

10,000

2030

37,000

18,000

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Trust Strategy Summary