24 December 2015

Understanding the transformation footprints of health and care economies

Considerations for determining local health and care economies
Monitor 24 December 2015
  • Every health and care system is required by planning guidance (Delivering the Forward View: NHS planning guidance 2016/17 to 2020/2) to produce its own sustainability and transformation plan (STP) for October 2016 to March 2021. Systems are required to agree their transformation footprint (the geographic scope of their STP) by 29 January 2016,
  • Monitor has prepared geographical maps and resources that may help discussions the different parties determine their planning footprints
  • The accompanying Excel spreadsheet provides a table that maps the administrative boundaries of relevant organisations including
    • NHS commissioning regions
    • specialised commissioning hubs
    • clinical senates
    • NHS England strategic clinical networks
    • NHS England sub regional teams
    • system resilience groups
    • Local authorities
    • CCGs
  • The document includes detailed maps and for each Clinical Senate.