About this publication
Our Joint Forward Plan describes how the NHS in South West London will work together over the next five years, outlining clear and tangible steps to improve local services for local people.
The ambitions include:
- Ensure that everyone is offered the choice of where to have their baby, whether at hospital, birth centre or home, and that this is discussed at regular periods throughout her pregnancy.
- Deliver new types of screening to identify tumours at an earlier stage, including targeted lung health checks, starting in areas with the highest deprivation and smoking rates.
- Ensure genetic testing for all new colorectal and endometrial cancers to identify those with a higher family risk of cancer.
- Share workforce across south west London, while also exploring the creation of new roles, new ways of working and embracing technological solutions
- Invest in new diagnostic equipment and rooms providing more than 30 new pieces of diagnostic equipment including a modular CT scanner, five echocardiography machines, and three ultrasound machines.
Download the Joint Forward Plan to read our ambitions in full
The ambitions outlined in the plan are built from our understanding of the health needs of people in South West London, the health inequalities that exist and importantly the views, experiences and concerns of our people and communities.
In April and May 2023 we took views on the first version of our plan through a range of engagement activity with our local community, staff and health and care partners.
Read more about the engagement activity:
This final version of the plan – published in June 2023 – builds on the first version, and outlines how we will deliver our ambitions and respond to the needs and views of our people and communities.
The plan will be updated each year.
Previous versions of this publication
2023
Joint Forward Plan – first version, March 2023 (6MB pdf)
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How we will achieve our ambitions
Achieving the ambitions in this plan will need all NHS partners in South West London to work together differently, as we continue to shift our focus from treatment to prevention, support people to make healthy choices, and improve our services and the way we provide care.
Our focus will be to:
- prevent ill health and support people to self-care
- reduce health inequalities
- keep people well and out of hospital
- provide the best care wherever patients are accessing our services
- use technology to improve care
- manage our money
- make South West London a great place to work
- deliver the NHS requirements of the Integrated Care Partnership Strategy
Working with our partners
As the NHS in South West London, our collaborative approach has helped us maintain our position as a high performing system in London, and ensured we perform well against NHS targets and priorities, including referral to treatment times, elective care and vaccination delivery.
There is no hiding from the fact that this is a challenging time for health and care services, but we are recovering well from the pandemic, and we will continue to work together to improve further.