Our Objectives
Our objectives are focused on ensuring young people receive timely, local, and appropriate care while reducing health inequalities and enhancing community support in the West Midlands.
At the heart of what we do is the commitment to provide and facilitate exceptional, accessible care for young people across the West Midlands. Our approach is guided by clear objectives, strategic improvements, and targeted reductions to ensure that every young person receives the support they need, when and where they need it.
Our objectives are:
All young people are offered admission when needed as close to home as possible.
All young people are offered an alternative to admission where appropriate.
All young people are at the heart of everything we do.
Invest back into local communities to ensure that the wider needs related to health inequalities are well-supported.
The outcomes we hope to achieve are:
Local System Integration: Reinvest savings into alternative pathways to reduce inpatient reliance.
Quality Support: Ensure exceptional care and outcomes.
Access Improvement: Guarantee local Tier 4 bed access for West Midlands patients.
Community Care: Enhance community services to reduce and manage admissions, bringing care closer to home.
This will be done by improving:
- The understanding of population needs for the West Midlands through demand and capacity work.
- Investment in the right community services.
- Staff knowledge and skills.
- Continuity of care.
- Person-centred care.
- The number of patients getting on the right pathway at the right time.
This will be done by reducing:
- Inappropriate out-of-area admissions.
- Length of stay.
- Distance treated from home.
- Unnecessary admissions.
- Delays in movement between care settings.
- Readmissions.