Help set our 2025/26 priorities for NHS Orkney
We’re developing our priorities for the year ahead and want to hear what matters to you, so these priorities are meaningful to our patients and community.
Since we launched our Corporate Strategy last year, it has become our ‘compass’ at NHS Orkney. It is guiding the steps we need to take year-on-year to ensure we move incrementally closer each year to achieving our promise of looking after our community and providing excellent care on a consistent basis.
There are a number of ways in which our community can have their say about what our priorities need to be for 2025/26:
- By completing this short survey, which takes just a few minutes to complete, 2025/26 Priorities Survey. The survey closes on Friday 28 February.
- By sending your answers to the following questions to us directly via email: ORK.engagement@nhs.scot or by post: Corporate Services, The Balfour, Foreland Road, Kirkwall, KW15 1NZ
- What do we do well and continue doing?
- What do we need to improve/do better?
- What should our 3 highest priorities be in the year ahead?
Laura Skaife-Knight, Chief Executive at NHS Orkney, said: “Our priorities must be grounded in what really matters to our patients and community. We know from the many conversations we had last year that improving our waiting times, communications between department and Health Boards, improving the discharge from hospital experience for those on our ferry-linked isles, and access to key services such as Primary Care, Dentistry and Mental Health and being consistently open and honest are among the things that really matter to you. We have really listened to this feedback and made a number of improvements in 2024/25 but have much to do in many of these areas, with much work ongoing to make the sustainable changes that are necessary. We want to hear from our community again about what matters and what our highest priorities should be as we go into 2025/26 so we can retain our focus and evidence continuous improvement for our patients, community and staff, which is nothing more than Orkney deserves.”
Meghan McEwen, Board Chair at NHS Orkney, said: “Please do take the time to fill in this short survey and to have your say on what matters most to you as we head into the next financial year. The responses from this survey will determine our priorities for the year ahead, ensuring we continue to look after our community and provide excellent care for all.”
Following a period of engagement and listening between January and March 2025, we will launch our 2025/26 priorities in April 2025.