Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said: “The NAO has added to a long line of reports lamenting the state of health and care. ...
Posts Tagged ‘STPs’
Extra STP funding: “NHS no choice but to spend funds for service reform on deficits”
By Mike Broad - January 22nd, 2018
Extra funding for NHS sustainability and transformation spent on meeting pressures
By Mike Broad - January 22nd, 2018
Extra NHS funding – intended to promote sustainability – has been spent on coping with short-term pressures, the National Audit Office has concluded. ...
Health and social care changes are “paving way for fewer services” warn experts
By Mike Broad - September 28th, 2017
The current reforms to health and social care services, and radical redesign of the local government finance system, may signal the end of the NHS and loca...
Some STPs have spent millions of pounds on external consultants to draw up plans
By Mike Broad - September 10th, 2017
Health and social care bosses across England have spent £21m on management consultants to help draw up plans to overhaul regional NHS services. An inve...
£325m investment in STPs must be the start of a larger programme of support
By Mike Broad - July 19th, 2017
The government are providing £325m of capital investment to support Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) across the country. Speaking ...
STP relationships strengthen as NHS faces continued financial challenges
By Mike Broad - July 6th, 2017
Working relationships within the sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs), introduced to help transform services and re-balance NHS finances, ...
BMA reveals “costs” of STPs and calls for re-think on the way forward for NHS
By Mike Broad - June 27th, 2017
The implementation of Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) – the government’s key way of implementing its Five Year Forward View – is creat...
Lack of focus on children in majority of STPs a “major cause for concern”
By Mike Broad - May 16th, 2017
The majority of Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) are failing to take into account the needs of children, the Royal College of Paediatr...
Quality of A&E services threatened by many STPs, research warns
By Mike Broad - May 10th, 2017
Closing A&E departments can affect the performance of other units that remain within the same region, research warns. The report, by the Centre for ...
STPs must prove NHS hospital bed closures will not compromise patient care
By Mike Broad - March 3rd, 2017
Hospital bed closures arising from proposed major service reconfigurations will in future only be supported where a new test is met that ensures patients w...
NHS sustainability plans unlikely to work without greater government commitment
By Mike Broad - March 2nd, 2017
Local sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) - designed to transform the way health and social care services are organised, delivered, and used acr...
