Building the NHS of the Five Year Forward View - NHS England Business Plan

Ten new priorities have been set out by NHS England to ensure patient safety and quality of care this year.

Building the NHS of the Five year Forward View – NHS England Business Plan 2015/16 details the commitments NHS England will focus on in 2015/16 under the main themes of ‘improve health’, ‘redesign care’, ‘whole system change for future clinical and financial sustainability’, and ‘foundations for improvement’.

The priorities have been chosen to deliver the Government’s mandate, while advancing the agenda the NHS has set for itself in the NHS Five Year Forward View, and are:

• improving the quality of care and access to cancer treatment
• upgrading the quality of care and access to mental health and dementia services
• transforming care for people with learning disabilities
• tackling obesity and preventing diabetes
• redesigning urgent and emergency care services
• strengthening primary care services
• timely access to high-quality elective care
• ensuring high quality and affordable specialised care
• whole-system change for future clinical and financial sustainability
• foundations for improvement.

In the plan, the commitments for redesigning urgent and emergency care services will include the development of urgent and emergency care networks, a pilot version of a new payment model for urgent and emergency care, complete information sharing across 111, 999 and hospital acute admission areas, a revision of NHS 111 commissioning standards, an enhanced Directory of Services, and working with Health Education England on workforce development. 

Chief Executive, Anthony Marsh, said: “The Trust is fully behind these 10 priorities which closely reflect the commitments we’re making to ensure high-quality patient care for everyone we have contact with, and to address the significant pressures the NHS as a whole which include a rise in demand and expectations, and some really complex health needs in our society.”

The business plan can be found at: http://www.england.nhs.uk/about/business-plan/.

Published 7th April 2015