The Maternity and Family Health vision is to develop models of care, which result in high quality, evidence based, effective and sustainable services closer to home for Dorset residents.
The vision for the group is based on a common set of themes as detailed below:
Greater focus on prevention and early targeting,
Support for individuals, patients, and carers to manage their own health more,
Increased access to services that do not need to be provided in an acute hospital setting, moving to a model that includes community hubs,
Understanding of the holistic physical and mental health needs of people to enable care to be tailored to the individual,
Continuous risk assessment of the population and development of care plans,
Ability to direct people to the most appropriate care provider, by organising multidisciplinary teams (including; pharmacists, nurses, therapists, GPs and others),
Effective collaboration and communication across teams primary, secondary and social care professionals,
Provide appropriate services on a 24 hours, seven days a week basis,
Collaboration across services to enable efficient investment in facilities and equipment.
From 1 July 2022 NHS Dorset CCG will be replaced by NHS Dorset. This website will no longer be updated and all future information will be held on the NHS Dorset website.
NHS Dorset is the public name of NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board (ICB). NHS Dorset will undertake the statutory responsibilities of the clinical commissioning group (CCG) and will also be responsible for planning to meet the health care needs of people and communities in Dorset.
