Priorities for delivering our strategic quality objective

  1. Meeting the needs of our populations through our Quality Strategy, systems and processes
  2. Improving patient safety through the new NHS Patient Safety Strategy
  3. Enabling and embedding continuous Quality Improvement
  4. Delivering ongoing improvements to the quality of people's experience and outcomes
  5. Building and nurturing a culture for transparent sharing and learning
  6. Supporting the Trust to meet its Net Zero ambition through the Green Plan

Cycle: effective to responsive to well-led to safe to caring to effective and onThe CQC’s Core Quality Tests

At the everyday level, people generally have a very good understanding of what quality means, but when it comes to health and social care they often focus on different aspects of quality which can make it confusing.  At its simplest level, the quality of anything refers to a combination of at least these three things – something that:

  • Is safe
  • Does what it’s meant to effectively
  • Feels right

These are the minimum quality tests for things we buy as well as for services we receive and have been embedded in the Care Quality Commission’s regulatory frameworks for health and social care services which we are statutorily required to deliver on.  
They include all these three tests as well as two further ones:

  • They are delivered in a timely way
  • They are led well
     

How quality fits within the Trust’s strategy

Our objectives, aims and mission with an arrow pointing at high quality services “To provide high quality health & social care services”

Providing high quality health and social care services is everyone’s responsibility.  It ensures we demonstrate that we really do use our aims, values and behaviours to realise our mission.  Quality is one of the five key objectives within MPFT’s overarching strategy, shown here.  MPFT’s quality objective does not stand alone from our other four strategic objectives.  It is linked to all of them through our aims and mission.  

Our Objectives:

  • High-quality services
  • Efficient use of resources
  • A fantastic place to work
  • To expand our services
  • Partnership working

Our Aims:

  • To care because you matter
  • To empower and engage our workforce
  • To be an effective power

Our Mission:

Together we are making life better for our communities

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