Patients and members of the public can now apply to join Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) patient reference groups. The creation of the patient reference groups are the next stage in the STP following the series of ten "Conversation Staffordshire" and "Conversation Stoke-on-Trent" events, hosted by both local Healthwatch organisations during November and December 2016, which were attended by more than 200 people.
In the latest in a series blogs focusing on Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), Ed Smith, Chair of NHS Improvement, explores some of the key questions that need be asked in order to take the right approach to planning.
New models of care, including the work of the vanguards, are key to the delivery of sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) which are being developed across the country. Transforming health and care services requires a valued and engaged workforce and in this blog, Dr Nav Chana, Clinical Adviser for Workforce Redesign – part of NHS England’s New Care Models Programme, shares five ways to approach this.
In the face of increased demand for care and constrained finances, while the Better Care Fund, the principal integration initiative, has improved joint working, it has not yet achieved its potential. The Fund has not achieved the expected value for money, in terms of savings, outcomes for patients or reduced hospital activity, from the £5.3 billion spent through the Fund in 2015-16.
This paper presents NHS bed data from across the UK in one place. The data demonstrates the increasing pressures on the system in each nation. It provides evidence of the underlying cracks within the NHS.
The STP has been updated recently to build on our earlier progress and it takes account of feedback we have received from many of our key stakeholders.
As the new care models programme begins its third year, people working across the programme, both nationally and locally have been exploring how they can ensure the success of the new care models are spread across health and care services.
Samantha Jones, director of the new care models programme recently shared her top tips for vanguards and others developing new models of care on how they might help do this.
The Primary Care Home (PCH) programme is delivering a range of benefits for patients, staff and the wider health system, according to a new report released today (Friday 31 March).
The Leeds Mental Health Flow aims to deliver radical, system-wide, sustainable change to improve quality of care for patients, improve patient experience and improve the system that supports this. We started this improvement journey in September 2016 with a four day rapid improvement event with around 40 clinicians, health workers and managers from across the Leeds health and social care system.
We heard that the UK government is seeking to improve the working systems between primary care and Accident and Emergency teams in England to help reduce pressure on services and cut waiting times for patients.
So we thought you might like to hear about our experiment that has been coproduced between patients, primary care staff, ambulance staff and emergency room (ER) staff in Jönköping County Region. Our scheme is the first of its kind in Sweden.