Sustainability and Transformation Plans Debate
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Baroness Walmsley
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Sustainability and Transformation Plans
Baroness Walmsley Excerpts(7 years, 5 months ago)
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Lord O'Shaughnessy
I thank the noble Lord for that question. STPs are voluntary groupings of all the relevant people—whether that is at the acute level, in primary care or local authorities—coming together under leadership to create the changes. Those then turn into operational plans that are delivered by individual hospitals, primary care settings and so on.
Baroness Walmsley (LD)
My Lords, these plans were supposed to have got under way last October. Have any of them actually started transforming services in their area, or are they still too busy figuring out how to balance the books?
Lord O'Shaughnessy
All 44 sustainability and transformation plans have now been published and are being scrutinised by NHS England, which is helping to ensure that they are as successful as possible. Operational plans will then come forward from April 2017 onwards.