I welcome you all to the 2023-2028 Strategic Plan for St. Luke’s College of Health Sciences. The Strategic Plan presents a 5-year trajectory for the College. As a successor plan to the 2017-2022 Strategic Plan, the strategic framework puts a premium on building efforts realized from the implementation of the predecessor Plan.
The 2023-2028 Strategic Plan prioritizes strengthening the institutional capabilities of the College in order to strengthen quality delivery of training, research and consultancy services, so as to contribute the national health and wellbeing in line with Government development agenda. This aspiration can only be realized through excellence in teaching innovation, practice and research scholarship and consultancy services.
We are mindful that the existence of the College in part depends on financial growth and sustainability. The Strategic Plan has mooted strategies for addressing resource constraints. Further, Strategy must always dovetail emerging issues in the external environment. We have ensured strategy alignment to the Malawi 2063 Vision (MW2063) and its First 10-Year Implementation Plan (MIP-1) and related national policies and global trends in the health sector, while responding to changes in our operating environment.
We safeguard our concerted commitment to our mandate to train nurses, midwives and public health assistants. In this passage, we are not alone. We have since witnessed the concerted input to the strategy formulation process from our stakeholders at large. I thank you all.
On behalf of the Board, I express my gratitude to Management and Staff of St. Luke’s College on Nursing for their participation and invaluable input to the strategic planning process. I also convey my deep felt gratitude to the Anglican Diocese of Upper Shire (ADUS) through the College Board, for assisting and ensuring that we define the roadmap for our College in the next five years. Finally, I thank our consultant, J.F.K Associates for facilitating a participatory and consultative process leading to this strategic framework.
DR ANGELLA CHIMWAZA