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Leading clinically and academically, treating the most difficult and complex cases and striving for excellence in everything we do
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The safety and quality of our clinical services and for treating our patients, their carers and each other with kindness and compassion
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Being tough on performance and decent with people
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Developing strong clinical partnerships with our neighbouring hospitals and tertiary referrers and working together to the benefit of our catchment populations, clinical service developments, the recruitment and retention of excellent staff and our teaching, research and development responsibilities
Our priorities
There are many priorities and improvements that we wish to make but of these there are three that will define our development as the regional teaching hospital over the coming years:
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being research active with our partner Medical School, niche and deep rather than widely spread, in the areas of oncology, neurosciences, infectious diseases, ageing and paediatrics;
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leading on postgraduate multi-disciplinary education for the region; and
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becoming the major trauma centre for the south east.
Each of these raises the bar and radiates benefit and expectation more widely.
Foundation trust status
BSUH hopes to become a foundation trust in the autumn of 2011. Our proposed constitution is available on our website.
