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Our vision and commissioning priorities

Our vision reflects both our work and the wider role we play in making Oldham a place where everyone is proud to belong.

It is to have healthy people living healthy lives in healthy communities, summed up as:

Healthy People, Healthy Lives, Healthy Communities

Our strategic ambition

This is a long-term ambition:

To continue to work with our communities to improve health and well-being so that, by 2014, people across the whole of Oldham will be living longer, healthier, more active and fulfilling lives, and taking up the opportunities on offer from world-class public services.

Key priorities

Our key priorities for the NHS to tackle locally in the coming five years are:

•    Mental health
•    Vascular disease (hearts)
•    Respiratory disease (breathing)
•    Cancer
•    Child and maternal health.

Our guiding principles

Our guiding principles again reflect both our work and the wider role we play in Oldham:

They are:

To always promote better health and well-being for all
To always promote better care for all
To always promote independence, protect vulnerable people and improve preventative services
To strive to realise and enable the potential of children and young people
To always ensure value for money
To constantly strive to reduce health inequalities
To always aspire to be world class in all we do, focusing on improvement, innovation and outcomes
To be a strong, effective and high quality leader of the local NHS
To reflect the needs and preferences of patients, their families and carers
To ensure clinicians can drive change for the benefit of local people
To constantly strive to develop new relationships and new ways of working to benefit local people
To make everyone count