18.02.14
Strategic support for struggling health economies
Commissioners and providers in 11 of the most financially-challenged health areas in England will receive expert help to develop integrated long-term plans.
Monitor, NHS England and the NHS Trust Development Authority will fund a series of programmes to help the areas develop sustainable quality services over the next five years. The areas have been chosen as those who would benefit the most from external support in first few weeks of the new financial year.
Suppliers will be appointed at the end of March to provide expert advice, focusing on diagnosis of supply and demand; solutions development and options analysis; plan development; and implementation. The programme of work will last for around 10 weeks.
NHS England’s chief financial officer Paul Baumann said: “We are investing resources now to help organisations across these health economies to plan effectively. The health economies identified are those where we believe that this immediate support will have the greatest long-term impact, providing significant positive benefits to patients and taxpayers in the future.”
The 11 health economies are:
1. South West London
2. North East London
3. Cumbria
4. Eastern Cheshire
5. Staffordshire
6. Mid Essex
7. Cambridge & Peterborough
8. Leicestershire
9. Northamptonshire
10. East Sussex
11. Devon
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