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Objectives

The Centre for Sustainable Delivery has 7 key objectives which help guide the development and prioritisation of its work.

  1. Maximise Capacity: Building capacity and capability across NHS Scotland. This includes optimising and maximising the overall national capacity to improve patient access. 
  2. Reduce Unnecessary Demand: Ensuring that the patient is treated by the right clinician, in the right setting, at the right time. This avoids waste in the system and enables rapid access to treatment to those who need it most. This is based around the principle of ensuring senior clinical decision making at earlier points in the pathway, and the development of effective pathways, which make best use of capacity available. 
  3. Harness Innovation: Harnessing technological innovations to address some of the most complex health challenges across NHS Scotland to provide a direct and positive approach on patient outcomes. This includes co-ordinating the new Accelerated National Innovation Adoption (ANIA) pathway to identify, test and adopt high-impact innovations across NHS Scotland.
  4. Enhance Staff Capability and Capacity: Identifying and maximising opportunities for staff upskilling.  This includes taking into account the demands of the changing health and care environment and new ways of working.
  5. Safe and Effective Patient Care: While all CfSD programmes are aimed at delivering safe and effective patient care, there are a number of programmes, which have a specific focus on ensuring this. This includes evaluating the effectiveness and impact of new initiatives and pathways.
  6. Form Strategic Partnerships: Develop partnerships with a range of skilled organisations to deliver transformation across a range of areas and disciplines. This includes working with the NHS Scotland Academy and NES to develop future workforce models. It will also include working with primary and secondary care, innovation and digital health to deliver sustainable new models of care.
  7. Conduct research and publish evidence based learning: CfSD aims to become an internationally recognised unit for supporting transformation and system change.  To do this, we will publish research and learning that demonstrates and evidences the value, impact and benefits realisation of our programmes.