Accessibility ToolsOur 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.
Click on the headings below to view other strategies and strategic plans.
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- 3 Year In-Patient Mental Health Strategy - In Development
- Cardiovascular Disease High-Level Recovery Strategy
- Care of Children and Young People with Life-Limiting / Life-Threatening Conditions Strategy - In Development, due March 2025
- Children and Young People's Mental Health Transformation Plan
- Clinical and Long Term conditions strategy - In Development
- Dementia Vision
- Dental Strategy - In Development
- Frailty Strategy - In Development
- General Practice Strategy - In Development
- Health Inequalities Strategy - In Development
- Integrated Cancer Care Strategy (ICP)
- Palliative and End of Life Care Strategy (Adults)
- Population Health Management Strategy - In Development
- People Strategy - In Development
- ICS Education and Training Strategy - In Development
- General Practice Workforce Strategy - In Development
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy - In Development
- Rural Health and Wellbeing Strategy - In Development
- Data Strategy - In Development, due Spring 2025
- Digital Strategy
Estates and Infrastructure Strategy - In Development
Integrated Care System Finance Strategy
At NHS Shropshire Telford and Wrekin, we are committed to ensuring that every pound we spend delivers the greatest possible benefit for our communities. Strong financial governance and a culture of grip and control is essential to achieving this, and we work hard to ensure our financial decisions are both responsible and sustainable.
The Integrated Care System Finance Strategy (2025-2030) is our plan to manage our finances for a sustainable future, aligning with NHS priorities, and taking a smarter approach to finance. It is about maximising how we use our funding to build a stronger and more equitable health and care system for the people of Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin; ensuring that every investment we make drives sustainable value, improves outcomes, and delivers on our shared vision for the future.
Click here to view the STW Integrated Care System Finance Strategy (2025-2030)
Joint Resource Capital Plans
The Health and Social Care Act 2022, sets out a new requirement for Integrated Care Boards (ICB) and their partner NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts to publish joint resource capital plans.
These plans should be produced annually and set out the plans for the coming financial year. In addition, these plans should be formally published by the ICB and reported against within their annual report. The capital expenditure position for the system is now published here.
Click here to view the 2025/26 ICB Joint Resource Capital Plans
Click here to view the 2024/25 ICB Joint Resource Capital Plans
Click here to view the 2022/23 ICB Joint Resource Capital Plans
The National Health Service Act 2006, as amended by the Health and Care Act 2022 (the amended 2006 Act) sets out that an ICB and its partner NHS trusts and foundation trusts:
- must before the start of each financial year, prepare a plan setting out their planned capital resource use
- must publish that plan and give a copy to their Integrated Care Partnership, Health & Well-being Boards and NHS England
- may revise the published plan - but if they consider the changes significant, they must re-publish the whole plan; if the changes are not significant, they must publish a document setting out the changes.
In line with the amended 2006 Act, ICBs are required to publish these plans before or soon after the start of the financial year and report against them within their annual report.
Research and Innovation Strategy - In Development
Joint Commissioning Strategies - In Development
