NHS mandate

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 established NHS England and provides that the Secretary of State is to publish, annually, a document known as the NHS mandate which specifies the objectives which the Board should seek to achieve. National Health Service (Mandate Requirements) Regulations are published each year to give legal force to the mandate.

2014-15

The mandate centred on uncontroversial ambitions: reducing rates of premature death, enhancing quality of life for people with long-term conditions, enhancing recovery.[1]

2016-17

There was a consultation process for the 2016 to 2017 mandate in the autumn of 2015. It was criticised as having little publicity.[2]

2017-18

The mandate for 2017-18 centres on the implementation of the Five Year Forward View.[3] It requires NHS England to provide weekend and evening access to primary care for 40% of the population by the end of 2017-18 and sets goals to improve the performance of Accident and Emergency departments with the majority of trusts meeting the 95% target in March 2018. It promises to reduce bed-blocking to 3.5%, the equivalent of releasing more than 2000 extra beds a day.[4] This is to be achieved by NHS trusts integrating social care services for elderly patients.[5]

It includes proposals to improve the collection of data about incidence, prevalence, clinical activity and outcomes of musculoskeletal patients and services in England.[6]

Chris Hopson, Chief executive of NHS Providers, representing NHS foundation trusts responded by saying "Taken together with the other commitments set out in the document, the gap between demands on the health service and the resources available in the coming year remains unbridgeable. We maintain that just stabilising the deterioration in performance would be an achievement in itself."[7]

References
  1. "NHS Mandate 2014 to 2015". Mental health Partnerships. 12 November 2013. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  2. "You've been asked to have your say on the NHS. You just don't know about it". Guardian. 19 November 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  3. "Pressure increases on CCGs to meet GP access targets". OnMedica. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  4. "NHS pledges to free up thousands of hospital beds by allowing home care". Daily Telegraph. 20 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  5. "NHS Announces Move Toward Integrating Social Care with Health Services". SWNS. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  6. "NHS England will regularly collect MSK data by 2018". CSP News. 22 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  7. "Extended NHS obligations in 2017-18 mandate 'well beyond reach'". National Health Executive. 22 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
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