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Strategic context
This plan shows how we will help meet NHS priorities. To ensure this we have aligned to the plans and guidance which set the context for health and care in 2022/23.
NHS Long-Term Plan (LTP)
The LTP set out key ambitions in cancer, maternity and neo-natal health, mental health and respiratory care, to make the NHS fit for the future and deliver maximum value from taxpayer investment. It outlines giving people more control over their own health and care and encouraging more collaboration between local services through primary care networks. The LTP also entrenched health and care integration, bringing together primary and secondary care and mental and physical health, through ICSs.
The Health and Care Act 2022
The Act (currently in Parliament) gives legal status to Integrated Care Systems and promotes greater collaboration between health, public health and social care to meet needs of local populations. These new bodies should be legally established on 1 July 2022. The Act also gives the Secretary of State enabling powers to bring HEE, NHSE, and NHS Digital together into a new organisation, as well as abolishing our Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs).
HEE Mandate 2022/23
Our annual Mandate sets out what Government expects of HEE, including collaborative working to maximise the availability of staff to support COVID-19 recovery and ensuring workforce supply in the medium and longer term. It commits us to delivering manifesto commitments and LTP priorities as well as the continuing reform of education and training. It also requires us to complete the new Framework 15 and work with NHSE to develop a workforce strategy addressing staff shortages, retention, culture and compassionate and inclusive leadership.
NHS 2022/23 Priorities and Operational Planning Guidance
This guidance highlights the need to restore services, meet new care demands and reduce care backlogs resulting from the pandemic. It calls for increased capacity and resilience to deliver safe, high-quality services that meet health and care needs and accelerates plans to grow the workforce and work differently. We must learn from the pandemic, exploit digital technology, make best use of resources, and invest in buildings and equipment.
DHSC Business Planning Guidance 2022/23
This stresses that ALB business plans should address COVID-19 challenges, LTP delivery and Government manifesto commitments through close system working. There is also guidance on international activity, reducing health inequalities and ‘levelling up’. How we are supporting the elective recovery plan specifically is outlined in our goals and objective section.