Service Improvement
Better Health, Better Lives Strategic Plan, 2010 - 2015
First Class Primary Care Services
- Accessible high quality primary care
- Effective prescribing
- Quality and efficiency priorities for individual practices
Healthy Pregnancy and Birth
Healthy Childhood
- Better mental health services and services for children with complex health needs
- Improve vaccination and immunisation rates
- Reduce childhood and adult obesity
Staying Healthy
- Reduce numbers of smokers
- Improve primary care services for alcohol misusers
- Improve access to sexual health services and reducing teenage pregnancy
- Reduce adult and childhood obseity
- Follow up people identified at risk through the NHS Health Check
First Class Services: Planned Care
Long Term Conditions, Intermediate Care and Urgent Care
- System wide redesign of care pathways for long term conditions
- Commission alternative levels of care closer to home
- Reconfigure intermediate care
Better Mental Health Services
End of Life
- Improving services and choice for end of life care
- Review and extend the Rotherham Hospice service
- Re-commission an enhanced hospice at home services
- Implement the Gold Standard Framework across Rotherham
NOTE: Better Health, Better Lives 2008 - 2010 equality impact assessments have been superseded by 2010- 2015 above.
Other service improvements
- Abdominal anortic
- Patient and public engagment
- Summary Care Record
- NHS Rotherham IT strategy
- World class commissioning organisational development
Human Resources and Employment




