We have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool – and provide specialist services for the North West as a whole. Our services are provided in partnership with commissioners, local authorities, voluntary and independent organisations, people who access our services, their carers and families.
This Strategy represents a continuation of our journey of improvement and development from our initial formation, through the previous five years, into the present and onto our plans for the future. It has been brought together using insight from a range of sources and following engagement with colleagues, partners and wider groups.
Since the publication of our previous Strategy, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership has continued to evolve and enhance the way we deliver care and support. Rather than re-organising everything we do, we will build on the foundations that are in place and that have provided a stable and sustainable base from which to progress. This will also include the use of additional funding for mental health provision by looking at whole-life pathways and delivering support tailored to the individual rather than as a set of discrete services.
To deliver this strategy we must first understand the issues and challenges we currently face. We will need to meet the increasingly complex health needs of our population and maintain capacity for the delivery of timely and effective services. At the same time, the Coronavirus Pandemic presented the biggest challenge for population health since the NHS was created and we know that it has hit our most vulnerable communities hardest. If we do not tackle the impact of COVID there is a real risk of an irreversible deepening of poverty and health inequity across the communities we support. We will therefore work to support our local communities beyond just the delivery of clinical care. We will seek to make the best use of NHS resources and develop sustainable services for the long term, whilst continuing to develop and grow our role as a commissioner and provider of care.
Imagining the Future sets out our ambitions to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities. Within this document, we set out our eight strategic objectives and show what it is that we want to achieve. These have been developed within the context of the evolving Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) and Places, established following the publication of the NHS Long Term Plan in 2019. We have made sure that this Strategy is aligned to all plans associated with these emerging systems of care and, as a result, we will ensure we are significant contributors to their success.