NHS England, Board paper 17 December 2013
- This paper presents the changes to the way health services are delivered NHS England consider essential to deliver improved outcomes within available resources. NHS England has identified that any high quality, sustainable health and care system in England will have the following six characteristics in five years:
- A completely new approach to ensuring that citizens are fully included in all aspects of service design and change and that patients are fully empowered in their own care.
- Wider primary care, provided at scale.
- A modern model of integrated care.
- Access to the highest quality urgent and emergency care.
- A step-change in the productivity of elective care.
- Specialised services concentrated in centres of excellence.
- Commissioners are asked to develop 5 year strategic plans (for 2014/15 to 2018/19) and 2 year operating plans (for 2014/15 to 2015/16). Each strategic and operational plan must explicitly set out in detail the approach to delivering these fundamentals, the five year ambition and the plans for the first two years to move towards the long-term ambition.
- The paper include key dates including:
- First submission of plans - 14 February 2014
- Contracts signed - - 28 February 2014
- Refresh of plan post contract sign off 5 March 2014
- Reconciliation process with NHS TDA and Monitor - From 5 March 2014
- Plans approved by Boards - 31 March 2014
- Submission of final 2 year operational plans and draft 5 year strategic plan - 4 April 2014
- Submission of final 5 year strategic plans - 20 June 2014
- Final version - Everyone Counts - Planning for patients 2014/15 to 2018/19
