Posted: 03/01/2007
Article courtesy of 'The Border Mail' by Di Thomas
WODONGA Regional Health Service will build future business plans guided by a new strategic plan launched 21 December 2006.
The strategic plan has been 12 months in the making, overseen by the team of Linda Moon, Robert Petrovic, Anna Findlay and Darren Hope.
It highlights five priorities for the health service — patients first; clinical knowledge and expertise; community and partnership engagement; valuing staff; and, organisational effectiveness.
The plan also includes objectives for each of those priorities and strategic directions to achieve those objectives.
Board chairman Graeme Welsh said while the “skeleton” for the process had come from the board, the plan had been devised utilising the feedback from many focus groups held within the hospital.
“From this plan we want the individual departments to build their business plans,” he said.
“There is a lot of pressure upon health services to meet their budgets.
“This has been an enormous response from the staff and the strategic plan gives everyone a framework within which they can understand what we are doing and where we are going.”
Mr Welsh described the plan as an important evolution within the Wodonga Regional Health Service.
