Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Strategy 2020-2025

Our partnerships

We directly serve the Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley community and are part of a number of other local and regional relationships including the Kent and Medway Integrated Care System. 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. Kent and Medway Integrated Care System (ICS) The Dartford and GraveshamNHS Trust is a member of the Kent andMedway IC S. Our Kent andMedway Integrated Care System 5 year delivery plan has informed the development of this strategy. The strategic objectives of the ICS are:

Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) The Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley ICP is developing a collaborative alliance approach to improve the populations health and wellbeing, reduce health inequalities and proactively support service users with integrated service delivery and personalised care. The priorities of the ICP are:

Improving care quality and patient experience

Increased focus on population health and prevention

Driving financial balance, efficiency and productivity

Prevention and population

Transformation of our workforce and infrastructure A new integrated care system and delivery model The development of these objectives was informed by our population health needs, public engagement and the system challenges.

Integrated Services

Care in the community

Managing complex needs

More information on these priorities can be found in the DGS ICP Five Year Plan.

NKPS

A joint collaboration between Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust and North Kent Pathology Services is the first joint pathology service in Kent and Medway. Elements of the pathology provision in Kent are centralised at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. Together the Trusts in Kent and Medway continue to explore how best to collaborate on the provision of effective and efficient pathology services.

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Trust Strategy Summary