This report maps out steps that NHS’ national leadership are taking to support local health economies and organisations in developing and implementing new models of care. The models will be: Multispeciality Community Providers (MCPs); Primary and Acute Care Systems(PACS); additional approaches to creating viable smaller hospitals including new organisational forms as advocated by the Dalton Review and specialist franchises and management chains; and models of enhanced health in care homes. Support programmes across the different care models will be inter-linked and co-ordinated by a New Models of Care Board.
Local organisations wishing to become first cohort sites where models will be piloted have been asked to express their interest by 2 February to the new care models team: england.fiveyearview@nhs.net.
At a national level, a new Workforce Advisory Board, chaired by HEE with senior membership from across the system, will be established to develop a health and care workforce with the skills to support the implementation of new models of care.