How we are planning for the future

Our Future Strategy

We are currently working to develop our new Trust Strategy. This will set out what our long-term future will look like and how we will continue to improve our services.

The strategy will include our current improvement work and the changes we wish to make in the future. We will publish the strategy in April 2025. The key aims and priorities of the strategy will include:

  • Improving patient outcomes

  • Addressing health inequalities

  • Delivering of sustainable, quality care

Alongside this, we are also developing our clinical, digital, workforce and estates strategies. These will underpin the Trust Strategy, and set out how these areas will be developed over the next 10 years. The strategy will also provide details of our Green Plan,

In its development, we are working with our clinical, operational, and managerial teams. We are also using feedback from patient groups and our communities. This work will allow us to focus on:

Quality and safety

  • Improving patient outcomes and supporting the delivery of quality improvements.

Patients

  • Providing services that deliver national standards

  • Providing services that improve the experience for patients and families.

  • Providing local services where possible; alongside centres of excellence for quality and efficiency.

People

  • Improving the experience for staff including workforce transformation and modernisation.

Partnerships

  • Working with other healthcare partners or providers to reduces health inequalities.

  • Increasing opportunities to deliver services in the community wherever possible.

  • Making best use of limited acute hospital space and capital funding.

Sustainability

  • Delivering services within the funding available that are sustainable long-term.

  • Supporting our Green Plan including digital solutions.

These are a few examples of how we plan to achieve this:

  • Engagement with community and patient networks

  • Meetings with specialty teams and staff groups across the trust

  • Engaging and collaborating with our partners across Kent

We are also holding two Patient and Community Workshops - online on 4 December, and in Thanington on 10 December. For more information and to take part in these events, please email tomc@kscopehealth.org.uk

Your feedback is important, please complete our survey If you need help to complete the survey, please contact the Patient Voice and Involvement team and we will go through it with you.  Email: ekhuft.patientvoice@nhs.net or phone: 01227 868605