Our New Trust Strategy

We’re developing a new strategy for GMMH. Having a Trust strategy is critical, it helps us to plan for the future and makes everyone feel part of one team. Our new strategy will set out our priorities and ambitions for the next five years and how we will deliver them.

We’ve launched a survey to hear views, experiences, and ideas from our partners which will shape our new Trust Strategy. This survey  will run until [add date] 2025. 

Our current strategy launched in 2019. We know things have changed a lot since then and we have to think about the needs of our local communities and how we respond to the changes our Trust, and the NHS, have experienced. 

During the last eight months, we have held a series of face-to-face engagement events with the people who use our services, their carers and our teams to hear about people’s experiences of care and to listen to ideas about how we can improve our services.

Our objectives are:

• Providing care that matters to our service users, with a focus on community first.
• Working in partnership with service users, carers, staff and partners to improve the health of our populations, and prevent ill health.
• Making best use of all our resources to support effective and sustainable care.

Our objectives are in line with the new 10-year Health Plan for England. The government has set out three big shifts that it wants to see: moving care from hospitals to communities; making better use of technology and focussing on preventing sickness, not just treating it. These transformations are essential to the NHS’s recovery and future sustainability.

We’re continuing to listen to people as we shape our priorities, with events with service users, carers, staff, our Council of Governors and Board of Directors and ongoing engagement with partner organisations. 

The full strategy will then be developed, to be launched in Summer 2025.