1. Summary of the NHSE Planning Guidance
2017/18 & 2018/19 Planning round
Summary of the NHSE Planning Guidance

2. National context
Changes to NHS operational planning and contracting processes are designed to support Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) and the ‘financial reset
3 shared tasks
Implement the Five Year Forward View to drive improvements in health and care
Restore and maintain financial balance
Deliver core access and quality standards

3. Financial outlook
The level of growth is significantly less than previously available to the NHS
Expectation that providers and commissioners have a relentless focus on efficiency
National transformation and efficiency programmes intended to support this process, e.g.

4. NHSE view of STPs “STPs are more than just plans”
STP is the route map for the local NHS and its partners
System-wide plan setting out locally agreed objectives and how activity will flow between care settings
Different way of working, with partnership behaviours becoming the new norm
What makes most sense for patients, communities and the taxpayer should always trump the narrower interests of individual organisations
“Although STPs are relatively new, we see them as having a significant ongoing role in the NHS”

5. Ambition for new care models
“New care models that break down the boundaries between different types of provider, and foster stronger collaboration across services – drawing on, and strengthening, joint work with partners, including local government”
Key ingredients:
Effective public engagement essential
System-wide set of changes
Improving and investing in preventative, primary and community based care
Creating new relationships with patients and communities,
Seeing the totality of health and care

6. NHSE view of contracting
Less time locked in adversarial & transactional relationships
Settle the numbers earlier and for a longer duration
Provide greater certainty and stability; simplify and join-up processes; cut transaction costs; & support partnership / transformation
2-year contracts with activity, workforce and performance assumptions
Single NHS England and NHS Improvement oversight process
STP financial control total to stop organisational boundaries and perverse financial incentives holding back transformation
All organisations to be held accountable for delivering both their individual control total and the overall system control

7. ‘Must do’ #1 - STPs Finalise an STP plan
Implement agreed STP milestones
Key trajectories and core metrics for :
Finance - Performance against organisation-specific and system control totals
Quality
A&E performance
RTT performance
Health outcomes and care redesign
Progress against cancer taskforce implementation plan
Progress against Mental Health Five Year Forward View implementation plan
Progress against the General Practice Forward View
Hospital total bed days per 1,000 population
Emergency hospital admissions per 1,000 population

8. ‘Must do’ #2 - Finance
CCG and provider sector in financial balance in each of 2017/18 and 2018/19
Year on year improvements in efficiency and productivity (2-3% each year) from reducing growth in activity and maximising cost recovery
CCG demand reduction measures:
Implementing RightCare
Elective care redesign
Urgent and emergency care reform;
Supporting self care and prevention;
Progressing population-health new care models such as multispecialty community providers (MCPs)
Medicines optimisation
Improving the management of continuing healthcare processes

9. ‘Must do’ #3 – Primary Care
“Ensure the sustainability of general practice by implementing the General Practice Forward View”
Support general practice at scale, including expansion of Multispecialty Community Providers
Workforce:
Increase doctors working in general practice by 5,000 in 2020
Create an extra 1,500 pharmacists in general practice by 2020
Expand Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) in general practice with 3,000 more therapists in primary care
Develop multi-disciplinary teams, support for practice nursing and establishing primary care at scale
Optimise out of hospital care for patients including access to premises, diagnostics, technology and community assets
CCG to submit development plan to NHS England on 23 Dec agreed across all member practices

10. National sustainability & transformation package
£3ph 5YFV development investment over 2 years
National funding :
Online general practice consultation software systems
Training care navigators and medical assistants for all practices
General Practice Resilience Programme
Extended access to general practice services - funding targeted at successful pilots - £6 per weighted patient
Estates and Technology Transformation Fund (ETTF) – progressed through bid process – HRW CCG currently has 10 live bids

11. Time to Care: 10 high impact changes
CCGs should have clear plans for how they will support the planning and delivery of a local Time for Care development programme, to implement member practices’ choice of the 10 High Impact Actions
10 High impact actions to release time for care
Active signposting
New consultation types
Reduce DNAs
Develop the team
Productive work flows
Personal productivity
Partnership working
Social Prescribing
Support self care
Develop QI expertise

12. ‘Must do’ #4 – Urgent and Emergency Care
Deliver the 4 hour A&E standard, and standards for ambulance response times
Implementing the 5 elements of the A&E Improvement Plan
4 priority standards for 7-day hospital services for all urgent network specialist services
Implement the Urgent and Emergency Care Review,
24/7 integrated care service for physical and mental health in each STP footprint by March 2020
clinical hub that supports NHS 111, 999 and out-of-hours calls.
Reduce ambulance 999 calls
Prepare for the waiting time standard for urgent care for those in a mental health crisis
Urgent and Emergency Care Networks across 100% of population

13. ‘Must do’ #5 – Referral to treatment times and elective care
92% of patients on non-emergency pathways wait no more than 18 weeks from referral to treatment (RTT)
2020 goal – no patient waits more than 52 weeks
Achieve 100% of use of e-referrals by no later than April 2018
Streamline elective care pathways through outpatient redesign and avoiding unnecessary follow-ups.
Implement the national maternity services review, Better Births, through local maternity systems.

14. ‘Must do’ #6 – Cancer
Working through Cancer Alliances and the National Cancer Vanguard, implement the cancer taskforce report
NHS Constitution standards (e.g. 62 days, diagnostic capacity)
Improve one-year survival rates by the proportion of cancers diagnosed at stage one and stage two and reducing the proportion of cancers diagnosed following an emergency admission.
Patients given definitive cancer diagnosis, or all clear, within 28 days of being referred by a GP

15. ‘Must do’ #7– Mental health
Implementation plan for the Mental Health Five Year Forward View for all ages
2020 goal - To close the health gap between people with mental health problems, learning disabilities and autism and the population as a whole
Ensure delivery of the mental health access and quality standards including 24/7 access to community crisis resolution teams and home treatment teams and mental health liaison services in acute hospitals
Increase baseline spend on mental health to deliver the Mental Health Investment Standard
Ensure delivery of the commitment to treat an additional one million people with mental illness by 2020/21

16. ‘Must do’ #8 – People with learning disabilities
Deliver Transforming Care Partnership plans with local government partners, enhancing community provision for people with learning disabilities and/or autism.
Reduce inpatient bed capacity by March 2019
Improve access to healthcare for people with learning disability so that by 2020, 75% of people on a GP register are receiving an annual health check.
Reduce premature mortality

17. ‘Must-do’ #9 – Improving quality in organisations
All organisations should implement plans to improve quality of care,
Drawing on the National Quality Board’s resources, measure and improve efficient use of staffing resources to ensure safe, sustainable and productive services
Participate in the annual publication of findings from reviews of deaths

18. Additional responsibilities in the NHS Mandate (links to CCG IAF)
Avoidable deaths and seven day services
Patient experience
Obesity and diabetes
New models of care / health and social care integration
Research and growth Technology
Health and work

19. Operational Plans for 2017-19 i.e. what our local plans have to do
9 ‘must-dos’; local narrative expected from NHSE (North)
Delivery of the local STP and its transformation objectives
Reconcile finance, activity and workforce to our agreed system control total
Develop robust, stretching and deliverable activity plans
Show how risks have been jointly identified and mitigated through an agreed contingency plan
Include the impact of new care models
Aggregate of all operational plans in a footprint need to be consistent with the STP

20. NHS Standard Contract for 2017-19 – content / proposals
Transmitting letters to GPs following clinic attendance reducing to 7 days
Electronic transmission of clinic letters, as structured messages using standardised clinical headings
Suspension of contract sanctions for key performance standards
Commissioners to facilitate hospital discharge and on providers to comply with recent NICE guidance
Mandatory data-sharing agreements for urgent and emergency care providers
Mandated use of the e-Referral system and non-payment for activity and the right for providers to return such referrals to GPs
4 priority standards for 7-day hospital services for urgent network specialist services
Compliance with new data security standards, new conflicts of interest guidance, and new interoperability requirements for clinical IT systems
National tariff for two years using phase 3 of HRG4+
Cost uplifts in the national tariff set at 2.1%
Efficiency deflator will be set at 2% in both years
Increase the percentage of follow-up costs bundled into first attendances
Local payment reform for first outpatient appointments and introduction of advice and guidance services

21. New funding Sustainability and transformation funding - £1.8bn:
£1.5bn general fund allocated on the basis of emergency care;
£0.1bn general fund allocated to non-acute providers;
£0.2bn targeted fund
Additional dedicated funding streams for mental health, cancer care, general practice
New funding is a combination of centrally-held and already included in CCG allocations
Different streams of transformation funding will be targeted towards the STPs making most progress
Adopt Best Possible Value (BPV) framework to make investment decisions

22. CQUIN and Quality premium
CQUIN - Full 2.5% will continue to be available to providers.
1.5% of the 2.5% for nationally identified indicators.
1% will be assigned to support providers locally.
0.5% available subject to full provider engagement and commitment to the STP process. Cost free indicator for providers with clear scope for earning the full amount.
Remaining 0.5% is held in the risk reserve
For acute and community services, national indicators covering mental health, ambulance services, NHS 111 and care homes.
2 year CCG Quality Premium scheme:
Cancer Stage of Diagnosis and Patient Experience of Accessing their GP
Anti-Microbial Resistance measure into a measure on Bloodstream Infections
RightCare programme
2 new indicators, one to be selected from a Mental Health menu, and one focused on delivery of Continuing Healthcare

23. Timetable: Sept - November
START: Planning guidance, draft NHS contract, finance templates, draft tariff, national CQUIN guidance all published
22 September
Provider control totals and STF allocations published
30 September
Commissioner allocations published / contract consultation closes
21 October
Submission of STP plans
Tariff section 118 consultation issued / final CCG CQUIN guidance issued
31 October
Provider finance workforce and activity templates issued
1 November
Submission of summary level Financial Plans
CCGs to issue initial contract offer that forms reasonable basis for negotiations with providers
4 November
Final NHS Standard contract published
11 November
Weekly contract tracker submissions start (to end Jan)
21 November
Submission of full draft 2017 – 19 Operational Plans
24 November
National tariff section 118 consultation closes
28 November

24. Timetable: December - January
Where 23 Dec contract signature deadline is at risk, local decisions to enter mediation
5 December
Contract mediation
5 – 23 Dec
National tariff 118 consultation results announced
12 December
National tariff published
20 December
National deadline for signing of contracts (Final contract signature date for avoiding arbitration)
23 December
Submit local GP 5YFV Development Plan
Submission of final 2017/18 to 2018/19 Operational Plans, aligned with contracts (approved by Boards / Governing Bodies)
Submission of joint arbitration paperwork for contracts not signed
9 January
Arbitration outcomes notified to CCGs and providers within 2 working dates after panel date
10 – 31 January
Contract and schedule revisions reflecting arbitration findings completed and signed by both parties
31 January

25. Glossary STP’s – Sustainability & Transformation Plans
STF – Sustainability & Transformation Fund
IAF – Improvement & Assessment Framework
RTT – Referral to Treatment
5YFV – 5 Year Forward View
HRG4 – Healthcare Resource Group
NICE – National Institute for Health and Care Excellence