Darent Valley hospital - DGT - People Strategy

Context

Dartford and Gravesham Trust Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust (DGT) provides a comprehensive range of acute services to a population of 400,000 across Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley, and Bexley. Services are provided across two main hospital sites: 1. Darent Valley: providing elective and emergency care 2. Queen Mary’s: planned care centre Dartford and Gravesham Trust has a committed family of highly skilled, trusted and kind staff. There are over 3,400 staff, from a variety of professional and technical backgrounds, as well as over 170 volunteers that provide invaluable support to the overall patient experience. Our teams are continually striving to improve the quality of the care we provide, improving the safety and effectiveness of our services and the experience of our patients and their carers. This map shows the population that we serve and the hospital sites that we primarily operate from. However, we provide outreach services to a wide range of places in the community including GP practices, community hospitals, care homes and patient homes. Our population is rapidly growing with local developments such as Ebbsfleet Garden City, a Healthy New Town. The population is set to grow by 35,000 within five years and by 55,000 within 10 years.

This, as with all of our strategies for 2020-2025, has been developed in the context of this exceptional population growth as well as the demographics of the population we serve. The demographics across Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley, and Bexley are similar, with pockets of high levels of deprivation, a range of ethnicities and languages spoken, and a population with a high proportion of young and older people (under 19 and over 85s). We have developed this People Strategy taking into consideration: • our local and national context; • feedback from our staff, obtained through staff forums; • Executive Team discussions with their linked wards; • the chief executive podcast ; • and from the Trust Leadership Team. The strategy will be shared with staff and feedback will be incorporated into the detailed work within the delivery programmes.

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