Amazing things happen at our hospitals every day.  We save lives and we give people their lives back.

In this, our vision and values 2011 -2016, we set out our ambitions for ‘bringing excellence to life’ and for delivering top quality healthcare for the people of east London and beyond.  We have a great starting point – the talent, energy and commitment of our staff, the excellence of our clinicians and academics, the quality of our partner organisations, and the support we have from our patients and our community.  Everyone wants us to deliver the highest standards of treatment, care and compassion, and they have given us their views on how we can do an even better job. We have listened to this feedback carefully, and have incorporated views about how and where we can improve to deliver our ambition to be the best in the NHS. 

This is what we think we all want for our organisation’s future; we will use it as a reference point in setting team and individual objectives; we will use it to inform our staff recruitment, appraisals, and development, and we will refer to it when getting more feedback on how we are doing.  In this way we will make sure that the whole organisation is aligned to achieve our vision and values.

So it is vitally important, with your help, that we get it right.

Our vision

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare providers in the world - treating every patient as an important individual and improving life prospects of our communities and future generations. We will do this by working to prevent ill health, diagnosing disease early and delivering compassionate care to the highest international standards.

Our values

We bring excellence to life by taking PRIDE in our work through:

Passion - caring deeply about our patients, our work, our team, our Trust and the NHS

Respect - listening to, and valuing, the opinions and contributions of others

Innovation - pushing for discovery and creativity, and implementing new ideas, better systems and practice

Delivery - delivering consistently on personal, team and organisational objectives, achieving excellent value for money and the highest standards of safety

Education - constantly learning and sharing our knowledge with students, colleagues, patients and the public

For full details of our vision and values and how we are going to achieve them, please download the documents below.

Download Vision and values document

Download Summary for GPs - vision and values

Download Summary for patients and public - vision and values