Cheshire and Merseyside Acute and Specialist Trusts Provider Collaborative (CMAST's) priorities include working effectively with the integrated care board (ICB) and its places, partners and stakeholders to improve the health and wellbeing of the population of Cheshire and Merseyside by:
- Reducing health inequalities.
- Improving access to services and health outcomes.
- Stabilising fragile services.
- Improving pathways.
- Supporting the wellbeing of staff and developing more robust workforce plans.
- Achieving financial sustainability.
CMAST has agreed areas of focus and delivery with their ICB which also align with national priorities. Priorities include elective recovery, increasing diagnostic activity and capacity, clinical pathway reviews, efficiency at scale supplementing a collective system effort and focus on delivery priorities.
The current CMAST programmes and key areas of focus are defined as delivery or enabling programmes and there is a trust chief executive who is the senior responsible owner and chair sponsor for each work programme, along with a place director representative on each of the key programme's boards:
2023/4 delivery programmes:
- Elective recovery and transformation.
- Diagnostics.
- Clinical pathways.
2023/4 enabling programmes:
- Finance, efficiency and value (including efficiency at scale).
- Workforce.