East Kent Delivery Board
Opens: 22 November 2016
Closes: 23 December 2016
The NHS, social care and public health in Kent and Medway have published their draft Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP).
It is the first time that health, social care and public health agencies in Kent have all worked together in this way and it gives them a unique opportunity to bring about positive and genuine improvement in health and social care delivery over the next five years.
Their pledge to you
The East Kent Delivery Board * have said:
We want to get this right, and we know that we need your views to help us do that.
So we will use all the means at our disposal to involve patients, carers, the public and health and care professionals, at every stage.
In the New Year, along with more detailed information about the STP, we will publish a timetable for engaging with the public in Kent and Medway in 2017. In the meantime, we ask you to help us shape our ideas and plans by filling in this survey, which closes on 23 December.
You can also join your Health Network to keep in touch with what is going on and make sure you can have your say at the appropriate time.
Please spare the time to get involved – we need to hear from as many people as possible to get this right for the whole community.
Transforming health and social care in Kent and Medway
Find out more about what we want to achieve and our ideas so far by reading Transforming health and social care in Kent and Medway. It also has details of the local clinical commissioning group websites where you can find out how you can have your say.
Our draft Health and Social Care Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) sets out how we think services need to change over the next five years to achieve the right care for people for decades to come. It will help us deliver the Five Year Forward View, which sets out the national vision for health and social care.
The STP slide pack is long and complex so we have updated our summary, Transforming health and social care in Kent and Medway with the key information from the STP. There is also a glossary to explain abbreviations and the terms used, and a set of frequently asked questions, (add hyperlink to FAQs) with further information.
It is work in progress – we are sharing our thinking on where we need to focus to bring about better health and wellbeing, better standards of care, and better use of staff and funds.
We will only be able to decide on and implement any changes following a period of engagement and consultation with our communities – this is just the start of the process.
We need to do this because our current health and social care system isn’t set up to meet the needs of today’s population. Many more people are living longer – which is great – but they want and need a different kind of care.
Although most people get good care most of the time, services are not always good enough, too many people wait too long for treatment and we can’t recruit enough staff. So, first and foremost, we need to design services that improve services for our patients. At the same time, we are facing a big financial problem. Across Kent and Medway, health and social care have £3.4 billion in funding but overspent by £141 million last year. Without change, we will be looking at a gap of £486 million in our budgets by 2020/21.
The plan focuses on:
- prevention of ill-health
- local care – better access to care and support in people’s own communities
- mental health – just as important as physical health
- hospital care – excellent wherever it is delivered.
NHS East Kent Delivery Board 22 November 2016
http://eastkent.nhs.uk/news/publication-sustainability-transformation-plan/
The East Kent Delivery Board, previously called the East Kent Strategy Board, is made up of all the organisations involved in planning and providing health and care services in the area.
The board is led by local GP, Dr Sarah Phillips, and other members include the chief executives and most senior doctors and leaders of east Kent’s NHS and social care services.
Member organisations of the East Kent Strategy Board
- NHS South Kent Coast Clinical Commissioning Group
- NHS Canterbury and Coastal Clinical Commissioning Group
- NHS Ashford Clinical Commissioning Group
- NHS Thanet Clinical Commissioning Group
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
- Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- Kent Health & Wellbeing Board
- Kent County Council