Sustainability and Transformation Plan published

News - 22 November 2016

South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, like all other health regions, is developing a Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP). 

This is the local approach to delivering the national plan called The Five Year Forward View. It will completely change the way in which the NHS and care services work in the future.

The initial plan has just been published:

Read about it here 

Its goal is for everyone in our region ‘to have a great start in life, supporting them to stay healthy and live longer’.  It includes a series of place plans for main areas within South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw. Shaping Sheffield is the plan that relates to Sheffield. In addition to the place plans, there are a series of regional priorities/

Healthwatch Sheffield has a key role in ensuring that people have a chance to understand the plan and that their feedback is really listened to by the planners.

The first chance to do this is at the Health and Wellbeing Board event on 8 December

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