East Kent Health and Care Partnership
Who are we?
East Kent Health and Care Partnership is made up of a wide range of organisations across east Kent, which have come together to provide better health and care for the people of the east Kent. It includes hospitals, community care, GPs and social care, mental health, councils and commissioning colleagues, as well as Healthwatch representatives.
What’s our vision?
Our ambition is to work together so we can to deliver better health and wellbeing outcomes for the people of east Kent. Not only that, but we strive to be the best employers for our people, so we can attract the very best workforce to serve our population.
Our emphasis is on self-care, proactive prevention and local care closer to home – and that means being innovative in the way in which we transform services. It’s really important to us that our patients, clients or service users, experience a seamless journey between our organisations. One way we will do this is through working better together, using technology and sharing digital care records.
We will make the priorities of the NHS Long Term Plan – including developing our outpatient care, prevention, cancer care, diagnostics and workforce care our priorities and, most importantly, we will take into account the impact that housing and deprivation can have on the health of our population.
Our health and care partnership is provider-led and plans to hold contracts with NHS Kent and Medway, enabling local system partners to collectively decide how services are developed and provided.
