Lord DarzI's report is finally here ! what are your thoughts? https://lnkd.in/eUNXjwtd Some of the key points are listed below : There are some important themes that have emerged for how to repair the NHS, which will need to be considered alongside strategies to improve the nation’s health and reforms to social care. You asked me to identify the major themes for the forthcoming 10-year health plan. These include the following:; o Re-engage staff and re-empower patients. Despite all the challenges and low morale, NHS staff are profoundly passionate and motivated to raise the quality of care for patients. Their talents must be harnessed to make positive change. The best change empowers patients to take as much control of their care as possible. o Lock in the shift of care closer to home by hardwiring financial flows. General practice, mental health and community services will need to expand and adapt to the needs of those with long-term conditions whose prevalence is growing rapidly as the population age. Financial flows must lock-in this change irreversibly or it will not happen. o Simplify and innovate care delivery for a neighbourhood NHS. The best way to work as a team is to work in a team: we need to embrace new multidisciplinary INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE IN ENGLAND | 13 models of care that bring together primary, community and mental health services. o Drive productivity in hospitals. Acute care providers will need to bring down waiting lists by radically improving their productivity. That means fixing flow through better operational management, capital investment in modern buildings and equipment, and re-engaging and empowering staff. o Tilt towards technology. There must be a major tilt towards technology to unlock productivity. In particular, the hundreds of thousands of NHS staff working outside hospitals urgently need the benefits of digital systems. There is enormous potential in AI to transform care and for life sciences breakthroughs to create new treatments. o Contribute to the nation’s prosperity. With the NHS budget at £165 billion this year, the health service’s productivity is vital for national prosperity. Moreover, the NHS must rebuild its capacity to get more people off waiting lists and back into work. At the same time, it should better support British biopharmaceutical companies. o Reform to make the structure deliver. While a top-down reorganisation of NHS England and Integrated Care Boards is neither necessary nor desirable, there is more work to be done to clarify roles and accountabilities, ensure the right balance of management resources in different parts of the structure, and strengthen key processes such as capital approvals. Change will only be successful if the NHS can recover its capacity to deliver plans and strategies as well as to make them. * * *
Stephen Hadcroft
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It’s taken this long to get this guy to tell them what I have been telling everyone I can get access to for the last fifteen years.
Programme Management, Design, Quality & Assurance Senior Manager.
4moAnother report telling us all what we already know?!