Our plans to create healthier communities

Frimley Health and Care is focused on the things that matter most, working with patients, local people, our staff and partners to help us to all live healthier lives.

We remain committed to delivering the two overarching objectives which were defined by the 2019 Frimley ICS strategy; Creating Healthier Communities. Our partnership focus will continue to be defined by delivering improvements against the following two headline measures:

(1) Reducing Health Inequalities for all of our residents who experience unwarranted variation in their outcomes or experience

(2) Increasing Healthy Life Expectancy for our whole population, ensuring an improvement not just in length of life but in the quality of those years as well.

The Strategic Ambitions which were established in 2019 are retained with new areas of focus and energy against a refreshed set of priorities which better reflect the challenges of 2023 and beyond.

  • Starting Well
  • Living Well (previously Focus on Wellbeing)
  • People, Places & Communities (previously Community Deal)
  • Our People
  • Leadership and Cultures
  • Outstanding Use of Resources

Each of our Strategic Ambitions will focus on a discrete number of headline priorities in the 3-5 years ahead, which are likely to be some of the most challenging that the health and care system has ever faced.

Starting Well

  • Addressing health inequalities through a focused approach to meeting the needs of vulnerable children who experience deprivation and poverty
  • Initiatives to improve the lives of babies and Children in the first 1001 days through to primary school.
  • Supporting and strengthening partnerships around health visiting and school nursing, working in partnership between the NHS, Local Authorities and Public Health to make improvements in these vital roles.

Living Well

  • A renewed focus on cardiovascular disease and its causes which contribute to hundreds of avoidable deaths annually
  • Working with partners across Places and Public Health to help our population maintain Healthy Weights
  • Helping people in our population to quit smoking by supporting them with advice and alternatives

People, Places & Communities

  • A clear approach to engaging with our population at place and system levels
  • Ensuring all of our diverse populations are represented with the creation of an ICS inclusivity framework
  • Exploring citizen leadership and creating opportunities to develop decision making in our communities

Our People

  • Creating a joint workforce model for health and care to give our people fulfilling and varied career opportunities
  • Widening access to employment and keeping the people we have by ensuring we provide great places to work
  • Strengthening partnership working and new models of care for our staff, residents and their communities

Leadership and Cultures

  • Deliver our system equality, diversity and inclusion ambitions
  • Use our leadership networks to accelerate the spread and adoption of system change
  • Nurturing a shared learning culture to create the space to stimulate radical thinking, meaningful collaboration and bold action to tackle inequalities

Outstanding Use of Resources

  • Reduce the need for acute and specialist services through investment in preventative and wellbeing interventions
  • Optimise medication use and adopt digital innovation to deliver greater value for our population
  • Make best use of our estates, community assets and anchor institutions by sharing capacity across our partnership working system wide on reducing our carbon footprint

We are pleased to be able to share with you our System Joint Forward Plan for 2023/24 - 2027/28.

This document lays out the challenges we face, such as population health variation, it describes our priorities, the resources we have and how we aim to address the challenges.

Please click on the below link or the image (right) to read the Joint Forward Plan.

Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System Joint Forward Plan 2023/24 - 2027/28

Our five year strategy had had a refresh. Priorities in health and care and for local people, have changed since it was first launched.

To ensure the current strategy reflects local needs, issues and priorities and is ambitious for our population and system we engaged with:

  • Local communities
  • General Practices
  • Partners
  • Health service providers
  • Local Authority Partners
  • Members of the Voluntary Sector

Read our Frimley Health and Care Creating Healthier Communities Strategy 

Our Green Plan lays out Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System's strategy to decarbonise our local healthcare system to support the NHS’ national ambition to reach Net Zero by 2040.

Frimley Health and Care’s green plan has a vision to:

“Improve population health and wellbeing while reducing environmental impact to net zero and protect our local communities from the effects of climate change.”

We are currently finalising our Green Plan but here you can find the draft version.  This will be replaced with a new version once approved.

This page will continue to evolve alongside the Green Plan, which by it's very nature, is likely to change and evolve as well.

If you have any queries regarding our Green Plan, please contact frimleyicb.public@nhs.net and mark your email for the attention of Richard Chapman.

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