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Strategic Framework

 INTRODUCTION
This Strategic Framework is designed to shape the development of St Vincent’s Healthcare Group in the period 2006 – 2010. The Board of Directors of St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group will revise it on an on-going basis, using, in part, inputs from the Board’s deliberations and the Board committees for this purpose.
It is intended that the Strategic Framework will be an organic and evolving document, expressing the strategic intent and structure within which the goals and objectives of the Board of Directors will be met.
It is recognised that since St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group is a not for profit organisation, the strategic plan of the Group will need to embrace a somewhat wider range of Strategic Framework than those of a purely commercial organisation.

VISION STATEMENT
St Vincent’s Healthcare Group is a forward-looking, innovative, voluntary healthcare provider. Through excellence in healthcare, which is enhanced by medical education and research, it will continue to provide the highest quality of care to its patients in the most effective and efficient manner possible as well as continuing to be responsive to its patients, and their families’ needs, beliefs and wishes.

In striving to achieve this, St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group will:
• Further cultivate an environment, which will ensure that the hospital’s quality of teaching is of the highest calibre at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. This will be done in partnership with UCD and other relevant international institutions.
• Create, for both staff and patients, an environment, which is both healthy and safe.
• Continue to lead and develop itself, as a major teaching and clinical based institution, by building on its international reputation, and on its interests in research and development in all aspects of medical and preventive care.
• Develop its service based on patient needs, having regard to the profile of its catchment population and designated national and regional specialities.
• Actively seek feedback on patients’ experience with St. Vincent’s.
• Develop its links with the community and with voluntary based organisations in its region, in the interest of patient care, and develop an integrated system of healthcare within its catchment area of South-East Dublin and East Wicklow. This includes closer involvement with other sister hospitals: St. Columcille’s Hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital, the City of Dublin Skin and Cancer Hospital, the National Maternity Hospital and the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital.
• Develop its service in line with current and future needs within its healthcare system and with the latest developments in medical research and education. The Board of Directors, in discussion with relevant bodies, will review its priorities and patient needs on a regular basis and will make the appropriate adjustments to its strategic and development plans as required.
• Continue and deepen its development as a health-promoting organisation with a strong focus on positive health promotion.
• Maintain, in the Group hospitals, its intention that their focus should be on the creation of an integrated health service, within each hospital and across the Group, which will express and encourage the highest possible professional standards covering the fields of health promotion, health education, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitation services where these are required.

STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK – OBJECTIVES
The main components of the Strategic Framework of St. Vincent’s Healthcare Group are set out in the following objectives:
1. To be pre-eminent in the delivery of clinical care, medical education and research effectively and efficiently.
2. To achieve organisational excellence in the service of our patients.
3. To maintain the highest standards of quality, risk management, hygiene and safety.
4. To achieve equality in the treatment of patients and staff, and to strive for equity of access to services.
5. To ensure that the Board, management and staff are accountable for their actions, that effective clinical governance and audit mechanisms are in place, and that there is transparency in all resource use, both within the Healthcare Group and its interaction with its external environment.
6. To continue its commitment to a health promoting hospital environment for all its patients, staff and community.
7. As a teaching and research healthcare group, to deepen and enhance its integration with and relationship to third level educational institutions in Ireland and internationally.
8. To ensure there is collaboration with the wider health system and integration within the Group.
9. To adopt an innovative approach within the context of the overall mission and vision of St Vincent’s Healthcare Group.
10. To adopt an evidence-based practice approach to the activities of the Healthcare Group.
11. To sustain a distinctive profile for the Group within the healthcare sector.
12. To develop and sustain partnerships in each of its core functions and to operate, both internally and externally, in a responsive manner.
13. To maintain a programme for the development of infrastructure and bed capacity for the Group.
14. To seek to optimise the contribution of individual staff members to the mission and goals of the Group.