Our Operational Plan 2025/26
Summary
Our Operational Plan for the year was approved by the Board of Directors on 17 July, slightly later than usual due to the late publication of NHS Planning Guidance. The Operational Plan sets out our priorities for the year to bring us closer to achieving our ‘Super Six’ strategic intentions. Over the next few weeks, look out for more information about our plan in staff communications.
In 2025 to 2026, we will balance delivering the ambition set out in our Strategic Framework with our capacity to deliver in a challenging financial environment. This means using our resources (our people, data and digital, beds and buildings, and our money) effectively to create as much value as possible for the communities we serve. We aim to support the NHS 10 Year Health Plan and the three NHS strategic shifts: from sickness to prevention, from hospital to community and neighbourhood, and from analogue to digital.
We will focus on providing consistently safer, efficient and effective services that are standardised, equal and high quality, wherever people access them. We will maintain a strong focus on productivity across our services and in doing so will maintain a careful balance of protecting quality whilst delivering efficiency. Of course, those foundations rely on staff who feel valued and supported and we will continue to prioritise your health, wellbeing and satisfaction, whilst addressing our workforce challenges.
To stay strong for the future and respond to ambition set out in the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, we will maintain a focus on innovation this year. We will blend our expertise to provide more ‘whole person care’ for people with physical, mental health and learning disability needs. We will partner with other organisations to support new neighbourhood working models and find the best solutions to the big demand, workforce and affordability challenges we face. We will continue to innovate using data and technology, ensuring modern technology helps our clinicians to do their jobs and gives people greater control that’s easier for them to access care. Our exciting M-RIC research and innovation partnerships will continue to bring new innovations in treatment to service users.
We know staff, patients, service users and our partner organisations want to see tangible improvements in care and experience and will measure our strategy on the results we achieve. We will continue the work started in 2024 to 2025 to make our progress more visible through our governance arrangements and to our stakeholders.