Our Vision

Our Vision

NHS Oxfordshire is ambitious about improving the health and wellbeing of local people. It intends to work with its partners over the next five years to deliver a transformation in local health services, so that by 2012 the people of Oxfordshire will:

  • Be healthier - particularly if they live in our most deprived communities.
  • Be working with us to promote well being and prevent ill health.
  • Be actively supported to manage their own health and care needs at home, when this is appropriate.
  • Have access to a choice of high quality, safe and appropriate health services.
  • Get excellent value for money from their local health services.

Our Aims

Between 2008 and 2013 we should strive to deliver this vision by:

  • Commissioning safe, high quality services that promote wellbing, reduce health inequalities, deliver improved health outcomes and secure excellent levels of patient satisfaction.
  • Engaging the public effectively in the development of healthcare and wellbeing services in Oxfordshire.
  • Strengthening the role and influence of clinicians in improving services, through the development of Practice Based and other forms of commissioning.
  • Improving partnership working in order to deliver properly integrated services and to improve health outcomes for vulnerable communities.
  • Supporting the development of PCT, wider NHS and other providers of health and social care services, so that they and their staff can meet our commissioning requirements and there is greater choice available to patients.
  • Establishing itself as a highly effective and innovative organisation, one that has a workforce that is well placed to deliver its strategy.