Darent Valley Hospital - DGT - Quality Strategy

Context

Services with focus quality strategies and programmes Paediatric Services Our vision for paediatric services is to have a ‘safe and trusted paediatric and transition service’. The Long Term Plan set out clear ambition for improving the quality of services for children and young people, particularly as they transition to adult services. Children and young people are seen in a variety of areas across the Trust and it is important that we make sure that, wherever they are seen, the care and environment is appropriate for them and their families. We have therefore recently set up a Children and Young People's Board to: • D evelop and lead the implementation of a Children and Young People Strategy across the Trust • E nsure staff are supported to provide the best possible care to our children and young people, through supervision, leadership and education • E nsure the Trust responds appropriately and in a timely manner to advice, guidance and recommendations from regulators and external bodies • A ct as the ‘guardians of quality services’ for children and young people across the Trust, including safeguarding • D evelop partnerships across the Integrated Care Partnership in DGS and Bexley to better facilitate pathways for children’s care.

Over the next five years we want to ensure that children and young people, along with their families and carers, are welcomed, receive outstanding care and an experience appropriate to their age and developmental needs in every area of the Trust. Our children’s services have excellent links with the Evelina, through the GST Healthcare Alliance, which we will continue to foster over the next five years. The Children's Board will report directly into the Trust Board. Maternity Services – Maternity Transformation Programme The aim of this programme is to deliver the Better Births Strategy (2016). We are committed to delivering the 10 parts of the programme, and are working collaboratively with partners across Kent and Medway ICS to do so. We deliver over 4,800 births each year to mothers across Dartford, Gravesham, Swanley, Bexley and increasingly into Essex. The maternity services vision is to be the ‘best maternity service in Kent and Medway also serving Bexley and Essex’.

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