DGT Trust Strategy 2020 - 2025

Our strategic priorities

Journey to Outstanding

We will ensure patients receive outstanding clinical care, are kept safe, free from harm and are treated with thoughtfulness, skill and respect.

Outcomes

Through working with our partners, patients will only access our hospital for acute care and we will support them back to their ‘best bed’, i.e. the one that they call “home”, as soon as possible.

Our patients will have confidence and trust in the effectiveness and safety of the care they receive in our hospital comparable to, or better than, any elsewhere.

The care and services we provide will be of the best possible quality, based in evidence and supported with appropriate resources.

Our patients will feel respected and will experience kindness and compassion, every time.

Measures of Success

• Consistently achieving 95% in the Friends & Family test across all services • Embed a safety culture within the Trust through ongoing implementation of the National • Mortality (SHMI & HSMR): ‘as expected’ or ‘better than expected’ for HSMR and above national median for SHMI

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Trust Strategy Summary