Hospitals – Creating better outcomes

Overview

The purpose of this consultation document is to support widespread engagement with communities, clinicians, and society as a whole on:

• Why we need to reconfigure our Hospitals; 
• How we will manage our hospital system as an integrated network; 
• What pathways there are for citizens to access hospital services and how they can travel there; 
• Where those services are and will be delivered; and 
• When future service reviews will take place to inform future reconfiguration.

This will become the basis and strategic context for current and future service reconfigurations. We recognise that we need improvements across population health, social care, primary and community care and mental health, alongside a well-functioning hospital network.

In order to reform our health and social care system, improve population health and put our entire system on a sustainable footing; it will take sustained effort, funding and a collaborative cross-Executive approach.

With this in mind, your thoughts and feedback on the proposals within this framework are very important in helping to create a hospital network to achieve better outcomes for all.

Why your views matter

The Department is seeking views on the proposals within this framework document with a view to creating a hospital network to achieve better outcomes for all.