Horizon scanning for Arden GEM CSU: NHS planning

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Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Working with the national collaboration to coordinate COVID-related analysis, and the NHSE/I Midlands region, the Strategy Unit has produced a ‘systems dynamics’ model of waiting lists for planned care. The model is freely available for non-commercial use across the NHS.
In producing the model, the team found that:

Waiting lists did not increase in the few months after the lockdown
Services are planning the dark. Modelled results are sensitive to factors we know little about
Waiting lists may yet reach unprecedented levels
Hope of a rapid return to pre-covid waiting lists is misplaced

The comprehensive hospital agile preparedness (CHAPs) tool provides clinical planners with six key domains to consider that frequently create resource strain during COVID-19; it also allows local planners to identify issues unique to their hospital, system or region.

ABSTRACT

As the NHS plans to start to recover services, this long read looks at the context in which planned treatment will recommence. Specifically, it looks at what would have been needed – if the NHS were operating within a ‘business as usual model’ – to return to delivering the standard of 92 per cent of patients being treated within 18 weeks, given the waiting lists and waiting times backlog that had built up by January 2020.

18 June 2018

Prime Minister Theresa May spoke about the future of the NHS at the Royal Free Hospital, London. The NHS is to receive an average 3.4 per cent a year real-terms increase in funding over the next 5 years. The increased funding will support a new 10-year long-term plan the NHS will bring forward.
This long-term funding commitment means the NHS has the financial security to develop a 10-year plan. The plan will be developed by the NHS, working closely with government and be published later this year. The priorities include:

getting back on the path to delivering agreed performance standards – locking in and further building on the recent progress made in the safety and quality of care
transforming cancer care so that patient outcomes move towards the very best in Europe
better access to mental health services, to help achieve the government’s commitment to parity of esteem between mental and physical health
better integration of health and social care, so that care does not suffer when patients are moved between systems
focusing on the prevention of ill-health, so people live longer, healthier lives.

This final report of the Lord Darzi Review puts forward a 10-point plan to achieve bold and long-term funding and reform, as well as a 10-point offer to the public which sets out what the health and care system will be able to offer if this plan for investment and reform is adopted.
The plan covers, digital infrastructure, R&D, social care, integration of services, simplification of national management structures, investment in staff, transformation funding and longer term funding cycles.
See the Interim Report here.

The 10 point investment and reform plan: