Our Values and Objectives

Being Caring and Compassionate:

This at the heart of everything we do, it is about understanding what each person needs and striving to make a positive difference in whatever way we can.

Recognising Individuality:

Appreciating differences, making staff and patients feel respected and valued.

Seeking to Involve:

Actively getting involved and encouraging others to contribute and share their ideas, information, knowledge and skills in order to provide a joined up service.

Building Team Spirit:

Working together as one team with shared goals, doing what it takes to ensure we provide the best possible service.

Taking Personal Responsibility:

Individuals are accountable for achieving improvements to obtain the highest standards of care in the most professional way, resulting in a service we can all be proud of.

We believe that to provide the best care, we need to continually improve the way in which we provide services. If we are to be the best, we need to continually seek improvement and embrace change, empowering our teams to develop ideas and drive them forward. In order to do this, we have adopted a continuous improvement approach and developed a strategy to support this, which you can read here.

Our strategic objectives are:

To provide outstanding and sustainable healthcare to our local communities
To offer a range of high-quality specialist services to patients in Lancashire and South Cumbria
To drive health innovation through world class education, training and research

The delivery of excellent services to our local patients through the provision of district general hospital services is at the core of what we do. To achieve this, we need to ensure we focus on meeting key quality and performance indicators so our patients can be assured of safe and responsive services.