We will collaborate locally, sub-nationally and nationally to deliver shared priorities at pace, with clear accountability, aligned governance and demonstrable benefits for population health, service sustainability and workforce wellbeing.

• Greater collaboration with partners and communities including carers across Forth Valley.

• Greater sub-national collaboration to jointly plan and prioritise services at a
  sub-national scale in order to reduce duplication, strengthen sustainability, improve equity of access, and enhance accountability across NHS Scotland.

• Integrated and aligned goals and streamlined governance arrangements with explicit ownership and decision rights.

• More integrated services locally, and sub-nationally and nationally with evidence of reduced duplication and improved access or outcomes.

• Create an environment where diversity is valued, and people are treated with respect.

• Improved health and wellbeing of staff, patients and the wider community.

We will reform and redesign the way we deliver health and care services to meet current and future challenges, including demographic change, widening inequalities and improving the quality and safety of services.

• Reduced reliance on hospital-based care, through greater investment in preventative and proactive community care services supported by a skilled workforce.

• Ongoing investment in digital technology and innovation to support improvements across our health and care system.

• Further improvements in the delivery of safe, high quality, and sustainable patient care through an effective Quality Management System.

• Reduce the levels of disease and premature death through targeted action and investment to address health inequalities, increase prevention programmes, and improve uptake across local communities.

• Develop a wider understanding of the health needs of our population and communities.

• Embed a Human Learning System culture across the organization as a whole as a key foundation of organisational transformation.

• Continue to build a culture with associated behaviours which is a delivery lever for transformation, productivity and change across our health and care system.

• Improved staff recruitment and retention through staff feeling valued, involved and empowered to make positive change.

We will strengthen stewardship capability and accountability at all levels to ensure that we have a positive and proactive approach to clinical, staff and financial governance across the organization.

• Greater financial sustainability and reduced waste through programmes to increase efficiency and innovation.

• Achieving the best value for our available resources, including reducing variation and treatments of low clinical value.

• Transparent monitoring of savings delivery and reinvestment.

• Development of key workforce plans and policies including staff development and PDPR activity to support improved compliance with standards and stronger grip on costs.

• Financial Stewardship development for budget holders.

• Development and delivery of capital priorities.

• Continued improvement of corporate governance and processes embracing digital solutions which enhance our delivery.

Focus our services, funding and efforts on the areas which will achieve the greatest impact, benefits and outcomes to improve the health and wellbeing of our whole population.

• Embed a preventative, value-based approach by disinvesting from low-value activity and delivering measurable improvements in population health as we implement our Population Health and Care Strategy.

• Improve health and wellbeing outcomes to ensure the best start for children and young people.

• Improve mental health and wellbeing for everyone.

• Improve patient safety outcomes by more comprehensively integrating our Quality Management System into patient care and clinical governance processes.

• Ongoing progress against the targets in our Climate Emergency & Sustainability Action Plan.

• Staff feel valued, respected and safe at work in an environment where every individual can flourish and we monitor culture outcomes to ensure that there is consistently positive staff experience across the organisation.

• Diversity is valued, fostered and celebrated with the organization, appreciating the richness of skills and experiences a diverse workforce brings.