NHS Oxfordshire Strategy 2008 - 2013

In March 2009, NHS Oxfordshire published its Strategic Plan which sets out its ambitions for improving health and healthcare in Oxfordshire between 2008 and 2013. In
Autumn/Winter 2009 we refreshed our Strategy to take into account the significant challenges the PCT will face over the life of this plan, not least the financial pressures across the whole of the NHS and other public sector services. The version you will find on this site is the refreshed version of the document, approved by the Board in January 2010.

In the Strategy you will find:

  • Our vision for transforming the health of the population and local health services
  • The values we will live by as we deliver those improvements
  • Our strategic goals, the measurable things that you can hold us to account for delivering
  • The 9 top outcome measures that we will monitor closely to make sure we are making a real difference
  • Information about the work programmes through which we will deliver improvements, and how they will benefit local people.

At the moment the Strategy is only available in the format we have produced for a professional, and largely internal, audience. We will however be producing a
summary version designed to be quickly and easily understood by patients, carers and members of the public and this will be widely distributed across Oxfordshire as well as being available from this website.

The Strategic Plan in its current format is available for download now:

Following discussion by the NHS Oxfordshire Board on 28 January 2010, NHS Oxfordshire has made final edits to the Operational plan, which sets out in much more detail what we will be doing in 2010/11 to continue to deliver our Strategy, how we will be investing taxpayers money and the improvements we want to make this year to local services and the health of the population. The version you will find on this site is the final version. You can download the NHS Oxfordshire Operational Plan 2010/11 here:

The Strategic Plan was the subject of wide consultation with the public, patients and partners. For more on the public process and how what you said has affected our plans already and will affect healthcare delivery over the next year, read more here.

NHS Oxfordshire is an organisation with a clear commitment to providing equal access to the information and services we provide. We have undertaken an equality impact assessment of the strategy: read more here. This recognises that people can experience barriers to access to services as a result of different aspects of their identity such as race, disability, gender, age, sexuality, religion and belief and summarises how delivery of our strategy will improve access to services and health outcomes for some potentially disadvantaged groups.