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Odstock Road, Salisbury
Wiltshire, SP2 8BJ
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Our priorities and our progress

Strategic Plan
Annual Business Plan
Targets, aims and objectives
Performance and targets
Clinical governance
Service user surveys

The Strategic Plan

The Trust was required to produce a Service Development Strategy (SDS) as part of its application to become a Foundation Trust in 2006 which sets out the Trust's key strategic objectives and its plan for how it would develop over a five year period.

The key strategic objectives which Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust set itself in the SDS were:

To be the hospital of choice for local people for acute hospital services
To be the hospital of choice for a wider population under Choice and PBR
To deliver high quality tertiary services
To be an exemplary employer who is known for the development of staff
To contribute to the growth and development of the local community.

The Board began a process of reviewing the SDS during November 2008, an exercise which will continue into 2009. This will culminate with a strategic document developed in conjunction with the staff, patients and commissioners of the Trust's services which sets out a vision of the hospital in 2020 together with a more detailed five-year plan which moves SFT towards that vision.

The Annual Business Plan

Each year in April Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust produces a document setting out its key objectives and priorities for the coming year in an Annual Business Plan The document contains a brief review of the previous year highlighting the successes and disappointments experienced in the preceding year. The majority of the Business Plan documents the Trust's work plan for the coming year and forms the foundation of the Trust's approach to internal performance management.

Halfway through the year the Board produces an Annual Review outlining progress made against the objectives the organisation has set itself.

Targets, aims and objectives

The Trust's business plan for 2008/09 was based on the principles adopted within its Organisational Development Strategy which highlighted six key aims.

Improving patient safety
Improving the way services are provided
Increasing the extent to which the public are involved in influencing how the hospital’s services develop
Making the hospital more customer focused
Improving staff wellbeing
Denerating a financial surplus in order to invest in hospital facilities.

Performance and targets

Trust's non-financial performance is assessed and monitored in the following areas:

Compliance Framework

Monitor reviews the Trust's key areas of performance through a quarterly self-assessment against key performance measures. These include: waiting times in A&E, waiting times for patients with cancer, waiting times from GP referral to treatment, hospital acquired infections, and the time taken for patients with suspected heart attacks to receive clot-busting drugs. The Trust Board receives a quarterly update on the Trust's performance against the Compliance Framework. This is entitled "Progress against Targets & Performance Indicators" and is included in the Trust Board papers, that are updated every two months. To view a copy of Progress against Targets & Performance Indicators, please go to the agenda for the last Board meeting and look for the paper that entitled Progress against Targets and Performance Indicators.

Care Quality Commission (previously Healthcare Commission) – Annual Check

Each year the Care Quality Commission gives an assessment of health organisations against a range of different performance indicators (some 25 indicators in all, including those reviewed under the compliance framework). On the basis of these indicators the Healthcare Commission award a rating of poor, fair, good or excellent for a Trust's performance in providing good quality care and use its resources effectively. In October 2008 Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust was assessed as being good for quality of care and excellent for use of resources putting in the top 24% of organisations.
Further information on the Annual Health check

Annual Declaration to the Care Quality Commission
All NHS Hospital Trusts are required to make an annual declaration to the Care Quality Commission stating their compliance with the Standards for Better Health.

Latest declaration 2009/10

Please note that since 2009/10 no declaration has been produced as the Care Quality Commission now visits the Trust directly.

Previous annual declarations

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust's declaration 2008/09

Standards for Better Health, 2007/08 Annual declaration to Healthcare Commission

Standards for Better Health, 2006/07 Annual declaration to Healthcare Commission

Clinical governance

Information about Clinical Governance at Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust can be found in the latest annual Clinical Governance Report

Service User Surveys

Each year, national patient surveys are conducted by the Department of Health and the Care Quality Commission. These involve a random samples of people who have used hospital services being asked to complete a detailed questionnaire. As soon as the Trust is made aware of the results, action plans are formulated which aim to improve areas of weakness or dissatisfaction.

More information about the Annual National Patient Survey can be found on the Department of Health website.

The Care Quality Commission surveys on aspects of the patient experience can be found on the Care Quality Commission website

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