The NHS Long Term Plan sets out a 10-year strategy for improving and reforming the NHS in England. The Long Term Plan aims to expand primary and community services, strengthen action on prevention and health inequalities, and improve quality of care for people with major diseases.
To provide a road map for the delivery of these changes in Norfolk and Waveney, the Integrated Care System (ICS) has produced a clinical strategy setting out a high-level framework for transformation across the system. The acute trusts have also individually defined their strategic intentions for changes to the services they provide, in line with the ICS clinical strategy.
The purpose of the Joint Acute Clinical Strategy is to describe a future clinical model for Norfolk & Waveney’s acute hospitals that optimises the benefits of collaboration and integrated working.
It will capture these opportunities across three levels:
- Clinical specialties or services that can be more effectively delivered AT PLACE, out of the acute hospital setting and/or in collaboration with our health and care partner providers
- Collaborative opportunities for OPTIMISED EFFICIENCY of service delivery between the three acute trusts in N&W for the care that must be delivered from an acute hospital setting
- Driving all acute specialties to operate UNITED PRACTICE with common standards, procedures and technology, removing unwarranted variation and assisting workforce development
The Joint Acute Clinical Strategy has three overarching aims, from which six clinical ambitions have been developed that, along with clear design principles, will ensure full alignment with the N&W system clinical objectives and, in turn, meet the long-term acute care needs of Norfolk's population.
The EPR will play a huge part in enabling delivery of our clinical strategy as we work with patients, staff and ICS health and care partners to develop person-centred services that will be transformed through shared clinical information and patient involvement in design.