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Work to take forward Achieving Excellence
Work is underway to take forward the plans set out in NHS Lanarkshire’s healthcare strategy Achieving Excellence.
Nearly 2,000 stakeholders from across Lanarkshire took part in a public consultation on the strategy from 2 August to 1 November.
NHS Lanarkshire chief executive Calum Campbell said: “We are grateful to everyone who took the time to contribute to the final version of the strategy.
“Throughout the consultation, there was strong support for the direction of travel and vision in the Achieving Excellence.
“We received a great deal of useful and constructive comments about how best to achieve these. We are using this feedback to update the strategy to ensure we have the right plans in place to deliver high-quality healthcare for the people of Lanarkshire.
“The real work is now underway to turn these plans into improvements to our services.”
NHS Lanarkshire made a commitment that all three acute hospitals will continue to deliver emergency care.
The goal through Achieving Excellence is to shift the balance away from treatment in hospitals. Where required, hospital care will be organised into centres of excellence to provide specialised clinical services for patients.
There was strong support for this approach and the principle of centres of excellence during the consultation.
Detailed planning will be carried out to take forward centres of excellence and this will inform the outline business case for the redevelopment of Monklands Hospital.
Achieving Excellence links closely to the North and South strategic commissioning plans.
For more information visit: www.nhslanarkshire.org.uk/Involved/consultation/healthcare-strategy .
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