Healthier Together

With over 7,000 colleagues, our teams are united by The DBTH Way – our shared approach to delivering outstanding care. It’s built on our We Care values: Being kind, keeping respectful, and working together to give colleagues what they need to thrive. This way of working is how we ensure safety, compassion and quality in everything we do.

Our organisational strategy, Healthier Together, sets out how we’re developing for the future. Guided by our vision – Healthier Together: Delivering Exceptional Care for All – it focuses on four key priorities: Patients, People, Partnerships and Pounds, alongside long-term ambitions around health inequalities, digital innovation, sustainability and education.

In 2024, we worked with colleagues, patients, communities and partners to refresh our organisational strategy. The result is our strategy, which takes its name from our vision statement: Healthier Together – Delivering Exceptional Care for All.

It sets out a clear, shared direction for Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals – one that reflects national priorities, responds to local needs, and supports high-quality, safe and innovative care.

Built around four Strategic Priorities – Patients, People, Partnerships and Pounds – the strategy is supported by long-term ambitions and enabling strategies that guide how we deliver services, invest in our teams, reduce inequalities, modernise our infrastructure, and become more digitally enabled and research active.

Achieving our vision

To achieve our vision, Healthier Together – Delivering exceptional care for all, we have adopted an approach that focuses on four Strategic Priorities, identified and developed with over 800 colleagues, patients, communities, and partners. Our four priorities describe our core focus as an organisation and they will never change.

Our Strategic Priorities are:

• Patients: We deliver safe, exceptional, person-centred care.
• People: We are supportive, positive and welcoming.
• Partnerships: We work together to enhance our services with clear goals for our communities.
• Pounds: We are efficient and spend public money wisely.

The priorities are underpinned by our Strategic Ambitions. Our Strategic Ambitions set out important work DBTH must do over time to improve how we provide care, make it sustainable for the future, and move closer to our vision.

Our Strategic Ambitions are:

• Provide the best care environments.
• Tackling Health Inequalities.
• Becoming a leading centre for research and education.
• Becoming a digitally enabled and mature organisation.

Our Strategic Priorities and Ambitions are also supported by Enabling Plans. Together they create a framework which outline the key principles, actions and work plans, driving us to achieve our vision.