Our vision and values
Our vision
We are proud of Cheshire and Merseyside’s record of collaborative working and there are countless examples of brilliant care, but there are also examples of variation in service which only serve to exacerbate health inequalities.
Our vision is for everyone in Cheshire and Merseyside to have a great start in life and get the support they need to stay healthy and live longer.
We will do this by working together, as equal partners, to support seamless, person-centred care and tackle health inequalities by improving the lives of the poorest fastest.
Our aims
Working alongside the wider integrated care partnership, ICBs have four key aims:
- Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
- Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
- Enhance productivity and value for money
- Help the NHS support broader social and economic development
To support our vision, local health and care services are working together, as equal partners, to support seamless, person-centred care and tackle health inequalities by improving the lives of the poorest fastest.
Our Values
The NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Culture Framework is built on the NHS Constitution, Nolan Principles and Equality Act. It was developed in partnership with staff, tested with leadership and aligned to the direction of our integrated care system’s aims to: improve health outcomes, tackle health inequalities, deliver best value and support social and economic growth.
The Culture Wheel brings the Framework to life. The inner ring represents the voice of us an organisation – we want all our staff to put people first and work together towards integrating services. This is what it will take to meet our statutory duty under the Health and Care Act 2022 to drive integration of services through better collaboration.
The middle ring represents the voice of us as a workforce – we believe that to fulfil the duty described above, the conditions we need at work and to be at our best includes compassion, inclusion, working together and mutual accountability in how we work and what we do.
The outer ring defines what our values mean in practice – it describes the behaviours expected of every single member of staff so that we continue to be a trusted employer of, partner to and provider of choice when it comes to health and care services.
Our culture framework sits at the heart of our brand, our ways of working, our systems and processes and how we go about our day-to-day work.
