Homerton Healthcare - Shaping Our Future Together

We’ve been asking the people central to Homerton - our patients, community, people, and partners -  to help develop our new Trust strategy. We called this piece of work ‘Shaping Our Future, Together’. Over the spring, we ran a range of engagement activities to ask you about your vision for the future of the Trust, where we want to go and how we get there. 

We’ve published this interim report to update you on the progress so far, the key strategic priorities that have been shaped from your feedback, and the next steps.

The report gives a brief overview of the engagement activities and the feedback from them, a look at the priorities that will guide our work in the coming years, and the next steps in delivering our new strategy.

The full report is available to read now. There’s also a summary presentation with the highlights for an easier read.

Read the summary

Read the report

The full strategy will be published in due course, please check this page for updates. 

What is a ‘Strategy’ for?

It’s about establishing strategic objectives that will guide what we do over the next five years and how we do it. The new strategy will build on our strengths and make improvements where they’re needed, with the principal aim of better supporting our patients, our communities, and our people and continue delivering outstanding care for all.

Why now?

While Homerton Healthcare has a lot to be proud of, Covid-19 has changed how we work and offer care as a Trust, how we work in and with our communities, and how we work together with our partner providers, primary care, social care services, local councils, voluntary sector, and others in City and Hackney and across North East London.

As we start to recover from the pandemic, we need to get back to working in a long-term and structured way so that we can continue doing our best for our patients, our communities and our people.
There are also emerging opportunities from the changes in healthcare legislation that require us to work with our partners as part of a North East London system. Against this landscape, there is no better time for us to look to our future as Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust’s existing strategic objectives can be found on our website https://www.homerton.nhs.uk/trust-strategy
 

Is the future of the Trust safe?

Shaping our future, together is about speaking to patients, staff, our community and partner providers to shape what Homerton Healthcare does over the next five years and how we do it. We’re doing this so we can be clear about our values, our direction and our priorities. Together we will build the best plan for the future so we can give better support to staff, our patients, our communities and our partners.
 

What service changes are envisaged?

The work taking place now is to help clarify our values, our direction and our priorities. We are not looking at service changes. 

When will priorities be put in place?

We will publish a renewed vision for Homerton Healthcare and strategic ambitions for the Trust end of summer / early autumn. A detailed strategic plan will be then be developed and launched in early 2023.

What guarantees are there that key services will remain in place in future?

Shaping our future, together is about understanding what Homerton Healthcare means to people and creating a shared vision for the trust in the future. We are not looking at service changes.