Our Strategies and Plans

Our mission is to create a vibrant, healthy and inclusive community for all our residents. This page includes our strategic vision and the strategies and plans we are implementing to achieve that vision.

Our strategic vision and objectives

We want everyone in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin to have a great start in life and to live healthy, happy and fulfilled lives.

We will work together with our communities and partners to improve health and wellbeing by tackling health inequalities, encouraging self-care, transforming services, and putting people at the heart of all we do.

Our ambition is to provide our communities across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin with safe, high-quality services and the best possible experience from a health and care system that is joined up and accessible to all.

By transforming how and where we work, improving access to services, and using our resources in the very best way for our communities, we will meet the needs of our population now and in the future.

We will focus on our places (local authority footprint areas) and our communities to create truly integrated care, including working across our boundaries and borders.

Commitment to innovation and excellence

Innovation is at the heart of our approach. We are dedicated to exploring new technologies and methodologies to enhance the quality of care. Our strategies include investing in digital health solutions, improving data integration, and supporting our workforce with the tools and training they need to deliver exceptional care.

Integrated Care Strategy

The Integrated Care Strategy, produced by the Integrated Care Partnership, focuses on creating a seamless healthcare experience for patients by fostering collaboration among various health and social care providers. This strategy aims to improve patient outcomes through coordinated care, ensuring that services are accessible and tailored to the unique needs of our population. The Integrated Care Strategy was refreshed and approved by the Integrated Care Partnership in October 2024.

Joint Forward Plan

The Joint Forward Plan is a rolling 5-year system plan created to deliver the Integrated Care Strategy.

The Joint Forward Plan focusses on the delivery of the Integrated Care Strategy and sets the systems ambitions for delivery against the strategy. The Joint Forward Plan was refreshed in 2024/25 to review the progress status of delivery of its key actions.   Many of the actions were completed, including initiatives to strengthen the approach to health inequalities, for example, consideration of health inequalities in prioritising elective waiting lists and waiting well initiatives, launching the diabetes transformation programme, increased targeted community case finding for hypertension, improvements in the service offer for people living with dementia and the development of a system estates and physical infrastructure strategy.

The narrative was also updated to ensure that the plan accurately reflects the current position and dates and, wherever possible, is aligned with the known priorities and focus expected in the new NHS 10 Year Plan to be published in 2025.

The Joint Forward Plan refresh is presented to the NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Board and both Health and Wellbeing Board’s for Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin.

The Joint Forward Plan focusses on these areas:

• Person centred care.
• Place, neighbourhoods and collaboration.
• Improving access to services – General Practice, Dentistry, Elective and Diagnostics, Urgent and Emergency Care, and Cancer.
• Clinical transformation priorities – Hospital Transformation, Diabetes, CVD, Musculoskeletal (MSK), Mental Health, Children and Young. People, Healthy Ageing and Frailty, and End of Life.
• Enablers – Finance, Digital, Workforce and Estates.

The Place plans are key to the delivery of the system strategy and are articulated in the Joint Forward Plan and delivered through the place partnership committees. For 2025/26, the Joint Forward Plan will focus on the foundations for delivering on prevention, the shift from acute services to community and from analogue to digital.

You can also read our Joint Forward Plan Summary. 

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