NHS England Board Meeting, 26 May 2016
- This paper was presented to the NHS England Board meeting on 26 May 2016.
- It outlines the vision and key elements of a new strategic framework for specialised services in 2020 and the next steps in achieving ambitions for specialised services, including local collaboration and national level support.
- More detail on implementation and commissioning intentions will be published in the autumn.
- The strategic framework sets out eight priorities which cover three issues: delivering place- and population-based care, providing national level support and ensuring financial sustainability and value for money.
- This vision and approach signal a fundamentally new direction for specialised services over the next five years on a number of elements in particular
- Recognition that different service models will be required to meet national standards:
- Moving away from a ‘binary choice’ of national or local commissioning:
- Moving towards a plurality of provider models:
- Using the leadership and expertise of clinical reference groups to transform future patient outcomes:
- Moving from ‘transactional’ use of information to rewarding high quality care
- Step change in the adoption of new treatments.
