Strategy

To achieve our goals we will move at pace, with purpose.

Mater’s Mission compels us to anticipate and adapt to the evolving needs of our community and the wave of innovation reshaping healthcare.

The pace of change has never been greater—but nor have the opportunities. By bringing together our expertise across health, education and research, Mater is ideally placed to deliver our vision of empowering people to live better lives through improved health and wellbeing.

The Towards 2025 Strategy outlines our path to delivering this vision while ensuring we stay true to our Mission and Catholic identity. The strategy builds on our commitment to achieving excellence across all our service areas while acknowledging the need for Mater to expand its unique capabilities in new spaces. This means moving beyond the hospital, the classroom and the laboratory—becoming closer to our consumers and delivering new products, programs and services that meet emerging community needs.

Millions of Queenslanders have shared their journey with Mater, and we aim to put people at the centre of our services. We commit to delivering an experience that meets their needs—and embodies the values that are at the heart of Mater.

Towards 2025 is the latest iteration of the Mater Strategy.

Our strategy outlines our goals for meeting the future needs of the communities we serve – providing a pathway for Mater People to deliver success while ensuring we stay true to our Catholic Identity which informs our Mission.

Emphasising our continued commitment to excellence across all service areas and calls for the wise stewardship of our resources. Our strategy is positioned to achieve the greatest positive impact for the community.

We focus on using resources efficiently and effectively while acknowledging the need to move into new spaces that allow Mater to leverage its unique capabilities to benefit all. To do this, we must align Mater’s environment, people, and resources with a singular, strategic focus on realising our goals.

Our Strategic Focus

Six key focus areas have been identified for 2023–2024 and will be used to measure success in delivering our strategy. Achievement of our ambitious goals relies on collaborative working across every part of Mater’s ministries. A summary of Mater’s 2023–2024 focus areas, our intended ambition in each and their alignment with our strategic goals is outlined below.