1 June 2016

STP User’s guide: Finance and efficiency template

User’s guide: Finance and Efficiency template v1.0
NHS England, NHS Improvement, 1 June 2016
  • This document is for those completing the finance and efficiency template return as part of the Sustainability and Transformation Plan. see NHS Improvement Provider Bulletin 8 June 2016
  • This is a guide to completing the template and should be read with these documents:
    • guidance provided on 18 May on the content of the submission 
    • STP finance and efficiency template (the ‘template’)
    • previously published Five Year Forward View documentation including the joint planning guidance
    • CCG allocations through to 2020/21 published January 2016
    • the latest published version of the Indicative Hospital Activity Model (IHAM), which has been updated to 2015/16 M10 FOT and footprint; it gives indicative activity figures up to 2020/21 based on historic trends and local demography projections for activity
    • NHS guidance on the Sustainability and Transformation Fund (STF). This guidance outlines indicative allocations of the STF in 2020/21.
  • Available through HSJ (Subscription required)