Wentworth Healthcare launches new Strategic Plan for 2024-2029

Wentworth Healthcare, the provider of the Nepean Blue Mountains Primary Health Network, has launched its new 2024-2029 Strategic Plan which outlines the organisation’s strategic objectives and intended outcomes for the next five years.

With a vision for the ‘community to experience better health and wellbeing’ through a mission to ‘empower primary healthcare providers to deliver high-quality, accessible and integrated care that meets the needs of the community’, the new Plan sets the strategic framework for the next chapter of the not-for-profit organisation.
 
Wentworth Healthcare works across the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, Lithgow and Penrith local government areas and is one of 31 Primary Health Networks (PHNs) nationally. PHNs receive grants from the Federal Government to establish and fund non-hospital healthcare services in the community, to support local GPs and other primary care providers to deliver quality care and to improve the local healthcare journey for patients as they move from one health system to another.

Wentworth Healthcare CEO, Ms Lizz Reay, said she was proud to launch the new Plan after extensive consultation with staff, stakeholders and community representatives.

“Our new 2024-2029 Strategic Plan builds on the strengths and outcomes of our 2019-2024 Strategic Plan and incorporates our learnings from an unprecedented five years in health,” said Ms Reay.

“We recognise the challenges our primary healthcare providers and community have faced since 2019. During multiple disasters and the pandemic, as an organisation we showed how agile and responsive we can be in times of crisis and proved our value in the local healthcare system,” she said.

“During the bushfires and floods, we helped provide critical services such as GP volunteers for evacuation centres, information and resources to health professionals during emergencies, increased mental health services, Disaster Grants for health professionals to better prepare for future emergencies and Community Wellbeing Grants to help our community recover,” said Ms Reay.

“During the pandemic we played a vital role by providing up-to-date clinical information to health professionals, establishing COVID-19 testing and vaccination centres, funding additional local mental health services and more. During all these events, we also advocated to both state and federal governments for the needs of local health professionals and our community,” she said.

The organisation’s new Plan focuses on the key objectives of excellence and impact, building a skilled and influential local primary care workforce, delivering integrated, quality-focused health services and engaging with, and empowering, the community.

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