Darent Valley Hospital - DGT - Quality Strategy

Quality priorities

Delivering the strategic objectives through our quality priorities: Journey to Outstanding The Trust’s strategic objectives Journey to Outstanding and Continuous Quality Improvement, have a series of outcomes that the quality priorities align to, and seek to, deliver. This page focuses on the strategic objective Journey to Outstanding. Strategic objective: Journey to Outstanding Ensuring patients receive outstanding clinical care, are kept free from harm and are treated with thoughtfulness, skill and respect Strategic objective outcomes:

1. Our patients will only access our hospital for acute care and we will support them back to their ‘best bed’, the one that they call ‘home’, as soon as possible Quality priorities: • Positive patient experience • Effective care

2. Our patients will have confidence in the effectiveness and safety of the care they receive in our hospital, comparable to, or better than, any elsewhere Quality priorities: • Positive patient experience • Effective care • Harm-free care • Reduce mortality 4. The care and services we provide will be of the best possible quality, based in evidence and supported by appropriate resource(s) Quality priorities: • Positive patient experience • Effective care • Harm-free care • A culture of excellence

3. Our patients will feel respected and will experience kindness and compassion, every time Quality priorities: • Positive patient experience

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Trust Strategy Summary