Our Trust has launched a new five year strategy to meet the mental health, learning disability, drug and alcohol and neurodevelopmental needs of people of all ages across Surrey and north east Hampshire.
Our Strategy is centred on delivering high quality care across all services and achieving our ambition of delivering the right support at the right time and as close to home as possible. At the heart of the strategy is our determination to place people who use our services at the centre of everything we do.
We aim to achieve this through greater involvement with people who use services, their carers and families to help us continuously learn and improve. This includes employing more people who have lived experience of using the trust’s mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol dependency services. A social media push breaks today to promote the strategy using the trust’s branding: ‘For a better life.’
The strategy is the result of a year-long engagement process with colleagues, people who use our services, their families and carers and partners across the health and care system. Surrey and Borders Partnership services has a population of more than 1.4 million people.
Chief Executive, Graham Wareham, said: ‘Our engagement work has focused on understanding what is really important to the people of Surrey and north east Hampshire, the challenges they face in their everyday lives and how can we make sure our mental health, learning disability, neurodiversity and drug and alcohol services are meeting their needs. Supporting people of all ages as early as possible to help them recover quickly, and avoid becoming more seriously unwell, is vitally important as is being able to offer high quality inpatient mental health support in therapeutic settings when this is needed.”
Our five year year strategy focuses on the following six strategic ambitions:
- Provide high quality care – delivering brilliant basics everywhere and providing early intervention and prevention as close to home as possible
- Have a valued and inclusive workforce – being a compassionate and inclusive organisation that promotes and supports employees’ health and wellbeing
- Strengthen involvement with people, carers and families – empowering the voices of people who use the trust’s services, their carers and families to help continuously improve and develop
- Make the best use of resources – making sure the trust is financially viable and aware of its impact on – and kinder to – the environment
- Work in partnership – being bold and creative to lead system change with partners and reduce health inequalities across Surrey and north east Hampshire
- Be a learning organisation – being a beacon for innovation helping employees to grow and learn and embed quality improvement in all that we do.
We are involved in several programmes of work that align with these strategic ambitions. We will shortly be opening our first mental health inpatient mental health unit for children and young people in Surrey, in January 2024, in partnership with healthcare provider Elysium. We will also be opening a new state of the art 64 bed adult mental health inpatient service in Surrey in autumn 2024. In the community, we have moved services to centrally located hubs that are more accessible and offer modern and welcoming environments to help improve people’s experience of receiving support.
You can find out more about the trust’s strategy on the Strategy, Values and Vision page on our website.