Vision, values and objectives 

Our vision 

UCLH is committed to delivering top-quality patient care, excellent education and world-class research.  

Our values

We will:

  • Take pride in caring for our patients as individuals;
  • Provide equal access to all our patients;
  • Be open and approachable to all;
  • Deliver high quality outcomes in partnership with others;
  • Value the contribution and develop the potential of all our staff;
  • Be responsible and accountable for all we do.

Our values are based on those of the NHS which are embedded in the NHS Constitution.

We also have a service commitment to guide our staff in their work.

Trust corporate objectives 2011/2012

Delivering top-quality patient care, enabling staff to fulfil their potential and meeting the demands of the challenging financial climate are all among the Trust’s ‘top ten’ objectives for 2011/12. All of our objectives are designed to help us achieve our vision to deliver. ‘top-quality patient care, excellent education and world class research’.

Objectives

 

Deliver excellent clinical outcomes

Improve performance on hospital mortality

Reduce avoidable emergency readmissions

Achieve 100% participation in national and locally mandated clinical audits

Improve patient safety

Reduce infections, including MRSA, Clostridium difficile, MSSA, e-coli, surgical site and central venous line infections

Reduce numbers of blood clots

Eliminate hospital-acquired pressure ulcers and significantly reduce patient falls.

Deliver high quality patient experience

Enable patients to manage their appointments easily and with confidence

Achieve patient experience results in the upper quartile in the national inpatient survey

Improve patient experience for cancer, maternity and outpatient services.

Build strong relationships with GPs

Improve the patient pathways of five key conditions, as agreed with GPs.

Improve the timeliness and quality of discharge letters to GPs

Make it easier for patients and GPs to contact hospital staff.

Achieve sustainable financial health

Achieve agreed income, expenditure and cash targets

Deliver service line management/reporting and patient level costing

Replace the existing financial management system by mid-2012/13

Deliver cost savings through the Quality & Efficiency Productivity (QEP) Programme

 Deliver QEP savings in 2011/12

Develop and implement a plan for long-term productivity and efficiency savings

Rationalise corporate and clinical support services across UCL Partners

Develop R&D and education through UCLP

Get the UCLH clinical research facility running at full capacity

Achieve re-designation as a comprehensive biomedical research centre

Implement a leadership staff college.

Develop and enable staff to maximise their potential

Reduce stress in the workplace and set a zero tolerance towards violence against staff

Aim to appraise all staff and double mandatory training compliance by the end of the year.

Ensure that all staff roles are fit for purpose and affordable

Deliver wait times in line with contract

 

Deliver patient waiting times agreed with commissioners

Deliver standards for timeliness and quality of care in A&E

Meet the cancer waiting time targets

Develop clinical services within available resources

Succeed in our bid for proton beam therapy

Improve care for cancer patients by redesigning pathways and commissioning the Cancer Centre

Progress plans for phase 4 development

 

Staff and patient