West Yorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership Long Term Plan Update

Posted on: 17 October 2018

Long Term Plan update

On 18th June the Prime Minister set out a funding settlement for the NHS in England for the next five years.  In return, the NHS has been asked to set out a long term plan for the future of the NHS by autumn, setting out our ambitions for improvement over the next decade, and our plans to meet them over the five years of the funding settlement. Over the summer, scoping of the plan has been taking place, comprising local and national NHS leaders, clinical experts and patient representatives – who have been engaging with relevant stakeholders to develop proposals.  Over September those working groups have organised or attended over 150 meetings with stakeholders and received hundreds of submissions, which have helped them draw up draft policy proposals for inclusion in the plan. An online call for views has also allowed other stakeholders, in particular members of the public and front line NHS staff, to inform policy development – more than 2,000 submissions were received through the portal.

What happens next

All the work done by these groups will help as policy proposals are refined and brought together over the course of October and November. Other engagement – both by working groups and central teams – will also carry on during this time, meaning that stakeholders will continue to have the opportunity to influence the final plan up to its publication, expected in November.

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