4. Ensure ongoing excellence and competitiveness through making the best use of national and international benchmarking for cost, price, management, outcome and organisational capacity.
5. Sustain and further develop our role and reputation as an innovative educator and trainer of current and future health professionals.
6. Strengthen and develop those services which assist our local health economies, optimise the quality of services, ensure value for money and minimise financial risk; specifically though review of general hospital costs and capacity; out of city placements and mixed sector economics.
7. Shape and grow specific speciality interests where we aim to be service leaders.
8. Review and realign our estates' asset base to our clinical service facilities thereby ensuring value for money.
9. Enhance service provision by developing added value trading arms offering specific products allowing re-investment in our core services.
10. Increase our sub-contracting arrangements with complementary organisations involved in the same care pathways as BSMHFT to optimise services for our users.
