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This priority is about providing the highest quality clinical services when people need them. Over the next five years, Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes (BLMK) will be running a programme to develop and implement a leadership model that supports our health professionals at place, neighbourhood and organisation to deliver better outcomes for our patients.

A local framework and plan are being developed with Integrated Care System (ICS) partners, and we are promoting this across the system via a series of stakeholder events, clinical and care professional engagement conversations, and patient and local community engagement.

Our aims

The aim of this strategy will be to:

  • integrate clinical and care professionals in decision making at every level of BLMK ICS
  • create a culture of shared learning, collaboration and innovation – working alongside patients and local communities
  • ensure clinical and care professional leaders have appropriate resources to carry out their system role(s)
  • provide dedicated leadership development for all clinical and care professional leaders
  • identify, recruit and create a pipeline of clinical and care professional leaders.

Each organisation within BLMK ICS has its own Clinical Services Strategy. We are also developing a local framework for future service model development, to inform what services will be delivered where. The framework will drive service reviews across the health and care system – supporting professionals across the system to work side by side.

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