Operational Plan 2016-17

Each year the NHS sets out annual planning guidance that outlines the Government’s priorities for the NHS for the year ahead.

The guidance can include specific targets such as access times for services, or qualitative expectations such as reductions in the use of agency staff. The planning guidance requires all NHS organisations to produce and submit an Operating Plan for the financial year ahead. Operating Plans focus on organisational priorities and actions that will respond to planning guidance, while maintaining organisational development goals and local commissioner requirements.

Every health and social care system in the country has been asked to come together to create their own local blueprint for implementing the NHS Five Year Forward View, which sets out the future vision of the NHS. These plans, called Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), are place-based, multi-year plans built around the needs of local populations. In Leeds, this means all commissioners and provider organisations like ourselves and the local authority will plan, agree, and commit to how together we will: improve people’s health; improve care and quality of service; improve productivity; and close the financial gap, together. Our plan in Leeds includes workstreams focussing on prevention and proactive care, rapid response to changing needs, and efficient and effective hospital care. Our local Leeds plan sits within the wider West Yorkshire STP footprint.

Our Operational Plan for 2016-17 provides information on the achievements we have made in 2015-16 and our priorities and approaches to quality, workforce planning and finance, as well Governance for the next twelve months.