Introduction
This document outlines our specific plans in Hertfordshire and west Essex to support the delivery of our health and care systems strategic ambitions including our Medium-Term Plan and priorities for the next two years.
You can view further details of these in the overview of our Joint Forward Plan.
A guide to this document
Section 1: Delivering our priorities for 2024-2026
This section provides details of our plans to deliver our five system priorities, as agreed by our system leaders. These priorities have been identified as the five most important things the ICB and its partners must deliver over the next two years to address our strategic challenges and support delivery of our long-term ambitions.
Under each of our priorities are specific plans for improvement along with the progress indicators for each plan, through which we will internally track our progress. Key indicators (‘How will we know that we made a difference’) show how we will:
- demonstrate overall progress of this work
- measure the impact for our population
- evidence we are making a positive difference.
These plans, unless stated otherwise, are being delivered across our health and care system.
Section 2: Delivering our ambitions for 2024-2029
This section provides details of our plans to deliver our five-year strategic ambitions as set out in our Medium-Term Plan, as well as supporting delivery of the systems Integrated Care Strategy.
As per section 1, these plans, unless stated otherwise, are being delivered across our health and care system.
Under each ambition in this section there is a summary of the relevant strategic challenges relating to it, as well as patient and resident engagement findings that have informed and continue to inform our plans. Below this are our specific plans for delivering this ambition over the 2024-29 period along with the progress indicators for each plan, through which we will internally track our progress. Similarly to section 1, each ambition has a set of key indicators (‘How will we know that we made a difference’) that show how we will:
- demonstrate overall progress of this work
- measure the impact for our population
- evidence we are making a positive difference.
Section 3: Our workforce plan
Our health and social care workforce are an integral part of everything we do and our workforce plans, that are detailed in this section, will help us to deliver our ambitions and priorities. Where appropriate our workforce plans are woven into our plans for each priority and ambition. However, this section provides an overview of our system workforce plans, these plans support delivery of the system’s 2023-2025 People Plan that are working towards the requirements of the NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan.
In this section, similarly to sections 1 and 2, we provide a summary of our relevant strategic challenges relating to workforce, as well as staff engagement findings that have informed and continue to inform our plans and our specific plans for improvement. Besides our plans there are progress indicators, which are our internal mechanisms for tracking progress. Below our workforce plans are our key indicators (‘How will we know that we made a difference’) that show how we will:
- demonstrate overall progress of this work
- measure the impact for our population
- evidence that we are making a positive difference.
Section 4: Key milestones
This section provides a summary of the key milestones for the projects that are included in this plan along with the expected date of completion. These are the most important things we need to complete for us to deliver our plans and ambitions.
Hertfordshire and West Essex Joint Forward Plan: Delivery Plan 2024-2029 (1MB pdf)