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Request 1

What steps, if any, your organisation has taken to implement a: 

Footprint

Sustainability and Transformation Plan;

Sustainability and Transformation Partnership; Accountable Care System; Accountable Care Organisation. 

Response 1

The South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Sustainability and Transformation Plan is made up of five local plans – referred to as ‘place’ plans – from Barnsley, Bassetlaw, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. These five areas make up the footprint. 

Each of the plans has been developed with involvement from patient and voluntary sector groups, local doctors, hospital chief executives, clinical commissioners and council officers. 

The Plan sets out the joint aims and ambitions and partners are in the very early stages of exploring what is possible. 

The Sustainability and Transformation Partnership is made up of 25 organisations. For the full list please see http://www.smybndccgs.nhs.uk/what-we-do/stp 

There are currently no NHS Accountable Care Systems or NHS Accountable Care Organisations operating in England. 

Request 2

What plans you have to implement any or all of the above and the proposed timescale for doing so and decision-making processes to be followed in doing so. 

Response 2

The South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Plan is a strategic document, outlining the ambition and objectives of its partners. It does not include any detailed plans and there are currently no plans to change any services, other than those that existed pre-STP – which are hyper acute stroke services and children’s surgery and anaesthesia services and on which we recently consulted the public. 

The decision making process for proposals to change hyper acute stroke services and children’s surgery and anaesthesia services is via the Joint Committee of CCGs. More details on the proposals and process can be found at: 

http://www.smybndccgs.nhs.uk/what-we-do/critical-care-stroke-patients

http://www.smybndccgs.nhs.uk/what-we-do/childrens-surgery 

Request 3

Any documentation or instruction that you have received from NHS England describing the action your organisation is required to take, or may take, to establish the above organisations and/or otherwise to implement the new care models described in the Next steps on the NHS five year forward view and the Five year forward view. 

Response 3

The STP pages of NHS England’s website hosts several correspondence, reports and planning aids. This can be accessed at: https://www.england.nhs.uk/stps/resources/ 

Request 4

An explanation of the legal and organisational nature of the governance arrangements for the “footprint”, as described in the Next steps on the NHS five year forward view and the Five year forward view, of which your organisation is part. 

Response 4

STPs are not new statutory organisations but new ways or working. Each partner within our STP retains their existing statutory responsibilities. There are currently no NHS Accountable Care Systems or NHS Accountable Care Organisations operating in England. 

Request 5

Your organisation’s understanding of the consequences if it does not implement a Sustainability and Transformation Plan, a Sustainability and Transformation Partnership, an Accountable Care System, an Accountable Care Organisation and/or any of the other new care models described in the Next steps on the NHS five year forward view and the Five year forward view, and the documents on which that understanding is based. 

Response 5

Over the next 15 years the number of people in the UK aged 65 and over is projected to increase by two fifths.   The number of people with long term conditions will continue to grow as a result of increased life expectancy. The latest research has found that over half of those aged 60 and over report having a long-term condition; with a quarter of over 60s diagnosed with two or more.   This is all placing significant pressure on our local health and care systems, and means councils are in an increasingly challenging position on the provision of social care. 

In addition to challenges in managing long term conditions, as a nation we also have significant public health issues. One in five of those aged over 16 smoke; two thirds of adults are overweight/obese and 45% of those who drink alcohol consume a third of their weekly limit on a single day. 

The NHS ‘Five Year Forward View’, published in October 2014, set out how the NHS would work with local government to adapt and meet the aforementioned challenges by 2020/21. This led to the creation of five new models of care, 50 pilot programmes across England known as ‘vanguards, and 44 STP areas. 

Building on this success NHS England published the delivery plan ‘Five Year Forward View: Next Steps’ in March 2017. The document summarised the progress the NHS has made, and the next steps we need to take to deliver integrated and improved patient care. 

Completing the implementation of the Five Year Forward View is critical to providing improved patient care.