NHS England 31 March 2017
- Key deliverables for 2017/18 and 2018/19 to meet current UEC standards:
- every hospital must have comprehensive front-door clinical streaming (October 2017 )
- every hospital and its local health and social care partners must have adopted good practice to enable appropriate patient flow. (October 2017 )
- Hospitals, primary and community care and local councils should work together to reduce delayed transfers to community health and social care. Each trust has been informed of its target around freeing beds.
- 85% of all assessments for continuing health care funding must take place in the community setting. (March 2018 )
- Implement the High Impact Change Model for reducing DTOCs
- Spread of Specialist mental health care in AandEs (in nearly half of acute trusts by March 2019)
- Increase the proportion of NHS111 calls receiving clinical assessment to 30% or more (March 2018). Development of NHS111 online.
- Spread availability of evening and weekend GP appointments to 50% of the public by March 2018 and 100% (March 2019.)
- Strengthen support to care homes
- Roll-out of standardised new ‘Urgent Treatment Centres’ which will open 12 hours a day, seven days a week, integrated with local urgent care services. (150 will be treating patients by Spring 2018.)
- implementation of the recommendations of the Ambulance Response Programme (October 2017)
