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Next steps for the forward view – what you need to know

2017-03-31T00:01:00+01:00

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NHS England has published Next Steps on the NHS Five Year Forward View, setting out what the original forward view has achieved since 2015 and the NHS’s priorities for the next two years.

The plan is focused on delivery and contains new policies for STPs, elective care, primary care, mental health and increasing the workforce.

Here HSJ rounds up our stories on what you need to know about the most important NHS policy document of the year.

EMERGENCY CARE: STPs and vanguard sites will be held to account on how well they can contain the growth in A&E admissions and bed days over the next two years. New care model vanguards will be docked funding if they do not successfully reduce A&E activity
FINANCE: The Next Steps document does not offer detailed financial plans for 2017-18, but NHS Providers has warned trusts are heading for a deficit of more than £500m next year.
INTERVIEW: Simon Stevens says the NHS is trapped in the “reinforcing cycle” of increased demand requiring higher investment, but the delivery plan was “practical discussion” for year ahead.
ELECTIVE CARE: NHS England has acknowledged that the service is unlikely to hit the 18 week elective waiting time target in the next two years.
STPs: NHS England has announced the nine areas most likely to evolve into “accountable care systems”. NHS Improvement and NHS England to adopt “one stop shop” approach to regulation towards these systems.
PRIMARY CARE: GP practices will be divided into regional hubs covering populations of up to 50,000 as part of plans to revolutionise primary care at scale in two years.
MENTAL HEALTH: At least 150 new inpatient beds for children and young people with mental health problems will be available by 2019. The global digital exemplars for mental health have also been named.
WORKFORCE: NHS England has said the service will need more nurses by 2020 and has announced a series of reforms to increase numbers, as well reforms to enable more flexible working.
TECHNOLOGY: The plan outlines details of a major shake-up of how trusts will procure IT systems, under which hospitals will partner with “exemplars” to replicate their “blueprints”.
Download the Next Steps delivery plan.

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