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Our Operational Plan 2019/20
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Contents
1. Summary
2. Our five year strategy 2.1 An overview of our long term strategy 2.2 How this operational plan delivers our long term strategy 2.3 Our commissioning landscape and wider system working
3. Our services: Strive for Perfect Care 3.1 Our current position 3.2 Improving quality: Perfect Care 3.3 Improving quality (STEEP): Continuous improvement 3.4 Population health 3.5 Integration
4. Our people: Become the employer of choice in our sector 4.1 Becoming an employer of choice in our sector 4.2 Just and Learning Culture 4.3 Working side by side with service users and carers
5. Our resources: Develop a solid financial, estate and digital platform for future integration 5.1 Maintaining financial balance 5.2 Improving our estate 5.3 Invest in digital technology
6. Our future: Work with and learn from others to have greater impact 6.1 Developing Provider Alliances 6.2 Research and development 6.3 Commercialising our knowledge assets
7. Monitoring and measuring delivery of this plan 7.1 What this plan means for our divisions 7.2 Executive Performance Review
8. Financial impact of this plan 8.1 Resourcing our strategic priorities
9. Risks to delivery of this plan
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Mersey Care’s vision is to provide Perfect Care that enables people with physical health and mental health conditions, learning disabilities and addictions to live longer, healthier lives.
2019 is the first year of a new five year strategy. We will continue our focus on Perfect Care, improving quality and safely reducing cost. But we also need to change our focus for the future. We need to develop more preventatitve and integrated services for children, young people and adults that enable them to to take a more active role in their own health and we must think differently about our workforce models and realise the potential benefits of digital technology.
Our long term strategy is to develop new clinical models to prevent crisis in community settings, enable people to take more control of their own health and integrate services. These exciting new service models, developed using co-production with service users and carers, along with the continued development of a Just and Learning Culture and a focus on quality and inclusion, will make us the employer of choice in our sector.
Delivering our strategy will enable Mersey Care to remain in financial balance, through service redesign that develops more preventative and integrated services, but also through focusing on our main financial risks of medical recruitment, corporate services and community services. We will also invest in improving our digital and physical estate so that Mersey Care has a solid platform to enable our new service models for the future.
Mersey Care cannot rise to the quality, workforce and financial challenges we face by working on our own. The development of partnerships with other providers at neighbourhood, place and Cheshire and Merseyside levels is essential to the future sustainability of our services.
We will measure delivery of this strategy and plan ensuring quality improvements in our current service portfolio but also in our key workforce, estate and financial indicators. We will also measure delivery of this strategy by using key measures of integration including patient experience, effectiveness of team working, hospital readmissions and delayed transfers of care.
1OPERATIONAL PLAN: SUMMARY
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• Centre for Perfect Care• Community services
improvement plan• Patient safety
programme• Provider Alliances.
• Corporate services review
• Long term financial model
• Global Digital Exemplar
• Strategic estates programme.
• Perfect Care areas• Equality and inclusion action
plan• Small team review• Therapies review• Trust wide quality and safety
framework• Crisis Resolution Home
Treatment (CRHT) implementation
• Integrated Community Reablement and Assessment Service (ICRAS) rollout North Mersey
• Integrated Care Team implementation
• Integrate divisions• Primary care mental health
model• Introduce integration for
frailty/ dementia• Introduce integration for
complex lives/families• Introduce integration for
children
• Focus on three main financial risks – corporate services, medical staffing and community services
• Corporate transformation programme
• Core technology infrastructure upgrades
• Electronic personal health records
• Share2Care clinical platform• Plan for Liverpool 2 and
specialist learning disability low secure unit
• Future plan for Whalley and Maghull sites
• Improve community estate in partnership
• Open Hartley Hospital (Autumn 2019) and Rowan View (Autumn 2020).
• Progress on top three financial risks• Achieve financial control total• Cost Improvement Plan (CIP)delivery• Digital maturity and capability• Increase in category B estate• Increase in single sex, single room
accommodation.
• CQC good across all services• Incidents resulting in harm• Ligature incidents• Progress towards CRHT fidelity• Length of stay and delayed transfers of care
in mental health• Hospital readmissions• Improved patient satisfaction with
involvement in care planning• End of life care access/response times• People dying in place of
choice• Therapies
waiting times
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• Provider Alliances• PROSPECT secure new
care model• R&D strategy• Commercial and
business development team
• Centre for Perfect Care (research).
• Equality and inclusion• Just and Learning
Culture• Organisational
effectiveness and learning
• Leadership development
• Life Rooms.
• Mobilise Provider Alliances in Liverpool and Sefton
• PROSPECT partnership go live
• Consolidate prison health progress
• Review and relaunch research and development strategy
• Increase commercial income from our knowledge.
• Equality and inclusion action plan
• Support health and wellbeing, reducing sickness absence
• Improve basic workforce systems
• Just and Learning Culture priorities
• Culture of care barometer implementation
• Develop Life Rooms model• New side by side active
participation process• Always events and passports
for carers.
• Effective integrated team working• Delayed discharges• Hospital readmissions• Length of stay in secure care• Commercial income.
• Patient and staff experience for those with protected characteristics
• Staff sickness• Time to recruit• Agency use• Culture of care• Triangle of Care• Patient experience• CQC well-led organisation.
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2.1 An overview of our long term strategy
Mersey Care’s strategy for Perfect Care was developed in 2012 and since then the Trust has changed considerably, not least acquiring specialist learning disability services in 2016 and then becoming a provider of community physical health care in 2017. In light of these changes, and the uncertainties in the environment in which we operate, we have reviewed Mersey Care’s five year strategy, identifying key trends that will impact us about how we will need to change in response to these future trends and bridge the gap between where we are today and achieving future success.
We face a range of challenges and uncertainties in the next five years (2019-24) which will require fundamental redesign of our organisation and the way in which we operate. Doing more ‘business as usual’ faster and more efficiently is not going to be a sufficient response to these challenges.
The key long term challenges and solutions for the next five years are summarised in figure 1.
Key future themesFrom these challenges and opportunities, we have identified a number of key themes which will direct our strategic approach over the next five years.
Continuous improvement in our clinical and operational platform – Mersey Care has been striving for Perfect Care in our services for several years. Our staff are passionate about delivering the best possible services for the people we serve, but achieving this in our current and future environment is not going to be easy. Even in a tough financial environment in which demand for our services is often greater than the service capacity that is available, we believe that our staff can always find new opportunities to improve our services and save money at the same time. Over the next five years we will continue to setting our own stretching goals for improvements in care rather than aiming to meet minimum standards, and we will increasingly get the basics of care right every time. We will accelerate the learning cycle, so that we are testing out improvements, learning from our mistakes and applying successful improvements and innovation faster. Over the next five years we will aim for an ‘Outstanding’ CQC rating, and we will seek out partnerships with other Trusts so that we can share our knowledge but also learn from others.
2OUR FIVE YEAR STRATEGY
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Prevention and population health focus - We must take action with partners to break the cycle of acute care dependency, which leaves less focus and resources available for preventative services. To do this, we will need to understand the specific needs of the local population, the impact of wider determinants and to explore gaps in care and unwarranted variation. In five years time, through the use of data, we will predict and prevent the increasing acuity of people’s needs; identifying those people most at risk from deteriorating health wellbeing and targeting earlier interventions and proactive care. Mersey Care will also enhance its preventative interventions alongside its core treatment services through our Life Rooms and through working in partnership with the voluntary sector and general practice.
Integration of physical and mental health, taking into consideration the social context, is going to be important in meeting future demand – There is a quality and cost improvement opportunity if we coordinate services to meet people’s needs. For example, there are over 7,000 patients currently accessing both mental health and physical
health services from Mersey Care and there appears to be little planned coordination of these interventions between our mental and physical health services. To meet growing demand for services and meet people’s needs holistically, we will integrate physical and mental health services. In five years time, we will be delivering fully integrated care at neighbourhood level. For example, care will be integrated for people with complex lives which draws together mental and physical health care, social care and the third sector to improve outcomes.
Effective community services will be vital if we are to break the current cycle of acute dependency – Community services play an invaluable, but often overlooked, role in people’s lives. We need a more ambitious and proactive approach to community services because they are important to people’s long term health needs more effectively and to support people’s long term physical and mental health more holistically. To make our community services more effective, we will standardise care pathways, ensuing consistent, high quality care, make best use of digital technology to improve productivity
Figure 1: Long term challenges and solutions
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and integrate physical and mental health services. In five years time, our community services will be paperlight and our staff will be expert in using digital technology, including patient held records and shared clinical information systems, to delivery proactive integrated care which limits the use of acute services.
Becoming an employer of choice in our sector – We must work to develop a high performing, happy workforce, getting the basics right for our staff and continuing to work towards a Just and Learning Culture. Whilst this will support our aim to become an employer of choice, we will need to work flexibly with other trusts to overcome workforce challenges across bigger footprints. In five years time, we will have mitigated our main workforce risks and secured sustainable recruitment and retention within our workforce. We will have equipped our staff with the knowledge and skills to work in new roles in neighbourhood integrated care; in particular skills to make full use of the digital tools which support integrated care.
Use of digital technologies is going to be essential to meeting demand, addressing our workforce challenges and to making services affordable – In the short term, we must make the most of opportunities to improve productivity within
our services through mobile working and tele-health services and to improve patient care through the integrated patient held record and shared clinical records. In five years time, digital advances, such as virtual reality and wearable devices will have started to reduce the volume of physical premises that are required and by complementing skilled, experienced staff will help to mitigate some of the workforce challenges facing us. In five years time, Mersey Care services will be offered routinely through digital channels, so that people do not have to wait so long to receive treatment and do not always have to see a clinician in person to get the support they need.
Working with other providers is going to be essential to our long term strategy –Public services face significant challenges to continuously improve care within a constrained finances, whilst facing increasingly acute and complex demand. Collaboration between organisations will be vital way for public services to support each other and to raise standards in such an environment, and will also reflect the fact that people’s care needs are becoming more complex. For Mersey Care over the next five years, this means that we will increasingly operate as a platform of integrated care across the health economies that we operate in, and we will develop formal alliances and contracts to reflect this
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integration over time. Rather than providing services through separate organisational units that concentrate on narrow sets of interventions, we believe that in the next five years outcomes can be maximised through systems that are accountable for the end-to-end patient journey.
2.2 How this operational plan delivers our long term strategy
2019/20 is year one of our new five year strategy.This year, we will continue to improve quality and cost in our services, and from this strong platform, develop more preventative, integrated community-based services. Within this plan we describe how we will do this through a focus on continuous quality improvement and Perfect Care within our services. Initiatives to improve quality and safety include implementing our community services action plan, implementing a new crisis resolution and home treatment service, improving access to therapies, reviewing our specialist small teams and implementing team and ward accreditation as part of our Trust quality and safety framework. We will make progress in integration of community services through our work to implement integrated care teams at neighbourhood level and through redesign of the care we provide for people with frailty/ dementia and for people and families with complex needs.
We will make progress towards becoming an employer of choice by supporting staff health and wellbeing, reducing sickness absence, delivering our equality and diversity action plan and further development of a Just and Learning Culture. Recognising that service users are experts by experience, we will embed a new side by side active participation process and focus on supporting family carers. We will also seek to expand the reach of the Life Rooms.
Our strategy for guaranteeing the longer term financial sustainability of our services is to develop a more preventative (and thus cost-effective) clinical model and focus on our three key financial risks – medical recruitment, community services and corporate services. In the year ahead, we will transform our corporate services to enable us to deliver our strategy now and in the future and achieve significant cost efficiencies. Strategic investment is also important to the financial sustainability of our services, and we plan to invest in estate and digital infrastructure so that we have a solid platform for improvement and integration in the future. Specifically, our initiatives include a programme of
core technology infrastructure upgrades along with digital support to integrated service through patient held records and the Share2Care clinical record sharing platform. We will review our community estate with partners to make this fit to support integrated care and continue our Rowan View (medium secure unit) and Hartley Hospital developments. We will continue planning for new developments, subject to capital funding, and develop future plans for the Whalley and Maghull sites.
Our long term strategy also reflects the need for Mersey Care to work as part of a wider system at neighbourhood, place and system levels because the challenges we face require a collaborative effort to overcome them. In the year ahead, we will develop our system collaboration through Provider Alliances in Liverpool and Sefton, and our PROSPECT low and medium secure partnership. We will increase our research and development capability in support of our strategic direction and commercialise our knowledge capital to invest back into our services.
Mersey Care’s key long-term challenges and solutions are set out in the table overleaf, alongside the initiatives set out in this plan to address those challenges and the associated resourcing/ investment.
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Realignment of existing resource
New resources subject to contact settlement
Maintained investment
Business case required
Cost efficiency savings
Planned investment
Income generation
Dem
and for services is increasing putting pressure on the current m
odels of service
Develop preventative, com
munity based services
that reflects co-m
orbidity and biopsychosocial solutions
Integrated Care Team
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Develop Life Room
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Implem
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odel
Side by side active participation process
Alw
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There is unwanted variation in clinical quality in our
servicesSupport continuous im
provement in our clinical and
operational platform
CQ
C ‘G
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Trust wide sm
all team review
Trust wide therapies review
Trust wide team
accreditation
Crisis resolution and hom
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implem
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Perfect Care areas
Consolidate prison health progress
Services are fragmented, causing quality issues and
waste
Integrate physical and mental health interventions.
Collaborate w
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prove the w
hole care pathway
Integrate clinical divisions
Introduce integration for people/families w
ith complex lives
Introduce integration for frailty/dementia
Introduce integration for children
Significant shortages of clinical staff and NH
S Trusts are com
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Become an em
ployer of choice and work w
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services.
Support staff health and wellbeing, reduce sickness absence
Equality and inclusion action plan
Improve basic w
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Just and Learning Culture priorities
Implem
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The resources available to the NH
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Save money through a preventative clinical
model: use of digital technology, focus on three
main financial risks
Transformation of corporate services
Sustainable medical staffing m
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Improve com
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Open H
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Future plans for Whalley and M
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Core technology infrastructure upgrades
Personal health records
Share2Care clinical platform
Com
mercialise know
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Review and relaunch R&
D strategy
The challenges the Trust faces require partnership w
ith other providersEstablish alliances to encourage collaboration in our core geographies and sectors
Mobilise Provider A
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PROSPEC
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2.3 Our commissioning landscape and wider system working
Mersey Care is commissioned to provide services by Clinical Commissioning Groups responsible for Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, the wider North West and also by NHS England. We work as part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership in relation to region wide opportunities for joint working, for example where there are opportunities to develop or improve services across larger footprints.
In mental health services, local commissioners have indicated that they wish to prioritise the delivery of access standards within services and also the development of crisis care and primary care mental health liaison services across North Mersey. CCGs are committed to meeting the Mental Health Investment Standard, but point out that Mersey Care is not the only provider of mental health services to their populations.
We will seek to work with commissioners to develop an open and transparent view of the funding flows to support the Mental Health Investment Standard, with the aim of ensuring that funding is invested into core services to enable delivery of the five year Forward View Mental Health standards. Commissioners have indicated that their performance priorities in the year ahead are:• Falls • Communication• Psychotherapy • Crisis care • Core 24 mental health liaison • Dementia - care navigators• Physical health • Follow up of service users on CPA• Eating disorder treatment within 18 weeks• Learning disabilities
In community physical health services, commissioners have recognised activity growth within services and wish to standardise services across North Mersey in line with the recommendations from a series of service reviews. They also wish to see services increasingly aligned to neighbourhoods of 30,000 to 50,000 people, where appropriate.
NHS England commissions specialist mental health and learning disability services from Mersey Care. In 2019/20, its priorities are high quality specialised mental health services that are integrated with local health systems and are delivered as close to home as possible, driving further reductions in inappropriate out-of-area placements.
In addition, NHS England will continue with its commissioning intention to reduce the number of people with learning disability and autism who are treated in inpatient settings and supporting local health systems to manage the learning disability and autism care of their whole population.
In the year ahead, Mersey Care will continue to work with the Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership (STP – Sustainability and Transformation Programme) to deliver system-wide efficiencies. In particular, we are a partner within their mental health programme, leading the secure workstream with delivery of the PROSPECT new care model for secure services.
Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership mental health ‘at-scale’ priorities for the year ahead are planned to be crisis care, personality disorder and the new care model programmes for secure care and specialist child and adolescent mental health.
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3. OUR SERVICES: Strive for Perfect Care
3.1 Our current position
Feedback from patients and their carers Whilst the Trust receives positive feedback via the national patient surveys, we have identified through our engagement with patients, carers and through complaints analysis, that there is room for improvement, particularly in relation to communication and joined up care which meets the psychological, the social and the physical needs of patients.
We will test carer passports across the Trust to improve the experience of carers and test ‘always events’ for carers within Specialist Learning Disability services to consistently improve carer experience. We will also pilot a new ‘side by side’ process for active participation (co-production) when considering service improvements and redesign in 2019/20.
In the year ahead, we will prioritise the development of integrated physical and mental health care through the development of integrated care teams at neighbourhood level. This will improve the care coordination of people with complex needs, helping them to feel more informed about their care plan and improving communication with them.
Evidence tells us that in general terms, the more positive the experiences of staff within an NHS Trust, the better the outcomes and patient satisfaction. We will work with our staff by prioritising actions within our People Plan to ensure they feel valued and supported, along with further developments in embedding a Just and Learning Culture. Through our equality and inclusion action plan, we will focus on improving access, experience and outcomes within our services for those who share protected characteristics.
Care Quality Commission Mersey Care has an overall ‘Good’ rating from the CQC. We are currently waiting for the results of an inspection which took place in November and December 2018.
3.1. Current position
OUR SERVICES: Strive for Perfect Care 3
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3.2 Improving quality: Perfect Care
Our quality improvement strategy is simple: to deliver Perfect Care as defined by our service users and staff.
This year we will remain focused on our long term quality improvement goals, building on our success to date in each area. Our Centre for Perfect Care will support the following key priorities in 2019/20:
Zero suicide • Zero inpatient suicides in 2019/20• Develop world leading practice guidance on reducing self harm in people with
personality disorders by October 2019.Reducing restraint • Full compliance with Reducing Restrictive Practice Guide by March 2020
• Reduce restraints in specialist learning disability services from 2018/19 baseline by 20% in 2019/20.
Physical health for mental health service users
• Identify innovation in the physical health offer to mental health service users by July 2019 with implementation proposals to follow.
Pressure ulcers • Zero deterioration of pressure ulcers within our care in 2019/20.
Just and Learning Culture
• Our priorities for 2019/20 can be found in the ‘our people’ part of this plan
Learning from deaths • Produce high impact plan to reduce mortality in our services, incorporating learning and best practice, by October 2019.
Enablers • Enable all divisions to improve their use of data for improvement, including use of statistical process control, by March 2020
• 100% increase in number of improvement projects across the Trust from 2018/19 baseline and development of quality improvement database by March 2020.
Figure 2: Our Perfect Care priorities for 2019/20
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3.3 Improving quality (STEEP): Continuous improvement
Having reviewed benchmarking and performance information and through engagement with our clinical divisions, we have identified quality improvement requirements aligned to the STEEP framework (safe, timely, effective, equitable and person-centred). Our clinical divisions will retain a focus on improvement in these areas through our Operational Management Boards and our Board of Directors will retain focus through our Quality Assurance Committee.
The headlines STEEP priorities for the year ahead are shown in the table below. Divisional summaries (see page 32 to 35) provide more detail.
We will work to achieve a Care Quality Commission rating of ‘Good’ across all community physical and mental health services and maintain ‘Good’ in other service areas.
Safe • Implementation of community services improvement plan and post-Kirkup quality and safety improvement plan
• Implement a standardised Trust Quality and Safety Framework, including dashboards and ward/ team accreditation by September 2019.
• Audit and monitoring of the deteriorating patient pathway (including NEWS2 and sepsis pathway)
• Focussed awareness-raising and increased reporting of safeguarding risks within community physical health division
• Address risks to children in care by fully implementing the Children in Care Quality Improvement Plan
• Roll out standardised falls assessment and management across older peoples services and other high risk areas
• Safety planning in secure mental health and prison services• Improved risk assessment processes and training for section 17 leave• Address high levels of ligature incidents in specialist learning disability services.
Timely • Reduction in waiting times for therapy services (including psychological therapies in the community) across the Trust, with a Trust-wide review of therapy services.
• Achievement of national mental health waiting times and performance targets• Reduced length of stay and delayed discharges in mental health services. • Implementation of Red2Green across all appropriate services.• Timeliness of access and assessment in end of life care services and work with
partners to increase the number of people able to die in their place of choice.
Effective • Single Integrated Community Reablement and Assessment Service (ICRAS) model across North Mersey
• Implement crisis resolution and home treatment service• Integration of our children’s services within neighbourhoods as part of integrated
care team development.• Build on progress in unplanned care, working with partners in urgent care treatment
centre developments.• Clearly articulate our prevention offer, working jointly with partners to deliver
preventative health services.• Trust wide accreditation for wards and teams.
Equitable • Improvement to patient experience for those with protected characteristics, including monitoring harm by protected characteristics.
• Fully implement equality analysis with quality impact assessment process for service change, transformation and Cost Improvement Plans (CIPs)
Person centred • Pilot carers passport across the Trust• Increased reporting of satisfaction with involvement in care planning• Implement framework to embed thematic learning from data and information on
the experience of people who use our services by December 2019
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3.4. Population health
The NHS is currently out of kilter with the needs of the population it serves, health needs data tells us that the people of Liverpool and Sefton are living with multiple enduring long term conditions but NHS services are commissioned to provide acute episodes of care to particular groups. Population health has been steadily deteriorating despite money spent on the NHS and this in turn is driving increased demand for services.
A focus on population health means aiming to improve the health of an entire population. It is about improving the physical and mental health outcomes and the wellbeing of children, young people and adults, whilst reducing health inequalities within and across a defined population. It includes action to reduce the occurrence of ill-health, including addressing the wider determinants of health, and requires working with communities and partner agencies.
Population health management improves population health by data-driven planning and delivery of care to
achieve maximum impact. It includes segmentation, stratification and impact modelling to identify local “at risk” groups and in turn, designing and targeting interventions to prevent ill health and to improve care and support for people with on-going health conditions, reducing unwarranted variation in outcomes.
Through this approach, we will better understand access, exprience and outcomes for people who share protected characteristics and take action to reduce inequalities, making every contact count across the breadth of Mersey Care services.
Population health management is a theme of our long term strategy, as through this approach we will be able to understand people’s needs more effectively, and understanding the population’s health needs will enable the NHS to develop services that predict, prevent and intervene more effectively. This is illustrated in figure 3.
Milestones for 2019/20• Develop shared approach to population health segmentation with local authorities and CCGs by April 2019• Confirm population segmentation categories, data flows and produce initial report of ‘raw data’ for
Liverpool and Sefton by April 2019• Construct segmentation tool by August 2019• Go live with activity data in September 2019 and costing data by March 2020.
Figure 3: Taking a population health approach to develop more preventative care
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3.5 Integration
The term ‘Integration’ means to address fragmentation in services, and enable better coordinated and more continuous care for people of all ages.
Mersey Care is focusing on integration in community physical and mental health services because patients receiving care in community settings often have multiple, complex health needs and depend on many health and social care services to meet these needs. Rather than continue to run separate mental health, social care or physical community services, Mersey Care will help local providers to operate within an all-age ‘One Team’ ethos for out of hospital care, uniting primary care, social care, community physical and mental health services and the voluntary sector.
The Liverpool and Sefton Provider Alliance plans set out how we will begin to use our collective resources to have greater impact by pulling in the same direction, working in similar ways and collaborating to provide more holistic support to people in our communities.
In practice, integration will mean that patients have to be assessed and referred between separate organisations less often because those organisations are working together to produce one care plan.
Patients will receive care that factors in their physical, mental health and social needs and their social needs will be met more effectively through non-medical services such as the Life Rooms, services provided by local voluntary organisations and Information and advice hubs/children’s centres.
People will be enabled to take more control of their own health through the development of a personal health record, and through psychological support that takes into consideration someone’s motivations and life circumstances. This is illustrated below in figure 4.
Our plans for integration will be supported by a social care strategic plan which we will develop this year in partnership with social workers and the local authority.
Figure 4: What integration will mean in practice
An integrated care team that understands that Mary has:• anxiety• loneliness• insecurity• confusion• dependency
Enablers:• Person Held Record• Telehealth• Proactive care plan
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Network of voluntary services
Information and advice hubs/
citizen’s centres
Community connections
Create a single care plan
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For Mersey Care in 2019-20, our integration initiatives focus on the integration of Mersey Care’s own mental health and physical health services. This integration will be carefully managed and phased slowly, in recognition of the scale of organisational change for our people and to acknowledge that previous Liverpool Community Health services require support to reduce variation in quality.
This balance of beginning to integrate Mersey Care’s mental health and physical health services, with the continued quality improvement support to physical community services is reflected in our milestones for the year.
Milestones for 2019/20• Through the Provider Alliances, implement
integrated care teams, including our children’s services, at 30,000 to 50,000 population across Liverpool and Sefton by October 2019.
• Implement new primary care mental health model, subject to commissioner investment
• Integrate Mersey Care clinical divisions – one division for secure and specialist LD services by December 2019, and one division for local mental health and community services by April 2020.
• Introduce integration in Mersey Care’s services for frailty/dementia
• Introduce integration in Mersey Care’s services for people/families with complex lives
• Introduce integration for children
Key measures• Effectiveness of team working using ITMA tool
(Integrated Team Monitoring and Assessment)• Patient experience and activation using validated
measurement framework• Hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge• Delayed transfers of care.
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4.1 Becoming an employer of choice in our sector
Our People Plan 2018 to 2021 sets out our commitment to focussing on our people; those who deliver services and support our communities. We recognise that there has never been a more important time for Mersey Care to have a workforce that has the right values, skills, support and development to deliver Perfect Care. The vision for our People Plan is simple, “to create a compelling place to work where we attract, retain and develop the best people to deliver the best care and be the best they can be”.
The People Plan describes five strategic key priorities that are aligned to deliver the overall Trust aims, all of which we know to be fundamental to creating a high performing, happy workforce, and to the delivery of Perfect Care in accordance with our values and a Just and Learning Culture.
In our workforce planning, we have identified three trustwide workforce planning risks – nursing supply, medical supply and age profile (both the workforce coming up to retirement resulting in a loss of experience and experience levels of the remaining staff in post). We will prioritise actions in our People
Plan which help us to recruit, retain and develop the future workforce.
Milestones for 2019/20: • Continue to review workforce plans, alongside the
divisional transformation programmes, to ensure we continue to have actions in play to mitigate our workforce risks and to ensure that our workforce becomes more reflective of the communities we serve
• Support our workforce through complex organisational change, transition and integration
• Implement culture of care barometer across all clinical divisions to provide a regular temperature check of teams, and use data to identify required actions by September 2019
• Ensure leaders demonstrate Mersey Care values and behaviours and have the courage to challenge and address issues where colleagues are not acting in accordance with our values
• Implement the action plan resulting from the review of how people raise concerns across Mersey Care from May 2019
• Cleanse and review electronic staff records to ensure they reflect new structures and therefore record and report accurate data by March 2020
• Continue to review and streamline recruitment process and delivery of the Trust’s time to hire targets throughout the year.
4OUR PEOPLE: Become of the employer of choice in our sector
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Our approach to staff sickness in the year ahead will include:• Targeted focus on well being to assess impact
from April 2019• Develop easy to read electronic booklet to
explain managing attendance policy for staff and managers by June 2019
• Review and redesign management development training sessions with HR and staff side by June 2019 and roll out from September 2019.
• Pilot HR/operational management coaching and support sessions within hot spot areas from June to September 2019
• Review available electronic solutions to support line managers in managing absence by June 2019.
• Review and report the timeliness of employee relations cases and embed any learning in line with our Just and Learning Culture approach (including a focus on those with protected characteristics) by end of June 2019.
Key measures:• Maintain staff sickness at 6.5% or below.• Ensure a maximum time to hire of 45 days• Achieve 95% core mandatory training compliance,
with 90% role specific training by March 2020.• Achieve clinical supervision levels of 90% by June
2019.• Achieve 95% PACE compliance within rolling 12
month period.• Maintain a vacancy rate at 11% or below for
qualified nurses (mental health and community)• Maintain a vacancy rate at 14% or below for
consultant doctors (mental health and community)
Our Equality and Inclusion Strategy sets out our equality objectives for 2019 to 2021, which are:• To improve year on year the reported employee
experience for protected groups• To embed high quality analysis through the use of
data into the design and delivery of our services including our decision making processes
• To reduce health inequalities for protected groups by improving access to all services
• To improve year on year the reported patient/service user experience for protected groups
Mersey Care is committed to taking equality, diversity, inclusion and human rights into account in everything we do, whether that’s through our aspiration to deliver Perfect Care for our patients and services users to employing a diverse workforce in a Just and Learning Culture.
Milestones for 2019/20: • Deliver our Equality and Inclusion Action Plan to
improve experience for staff and service users by March 2020.
• Maintain a continual focus on the recording of protected characteristics within our clinical services, with a particular focus on community division where there is a lower baseline position.
• Commission health needs analysis, reporting by October 2019, focussing on access, experience and outcomes for people who share protected characteristics within our services to allow the development of a focussed improvement plan
Key measures:• Improve equality, diversity and inclusion staff
experience to above average levels for 2019/20, as measured by the national staff survey.
• Improve the five workforce race equality scheme key questions, as measured by the national staff survey by March 2020.
• Achieve 95% recording of protected characteristics data of staff within our services. We will agree an improvement trajectory for community division by April 2019.
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4.2 Just and Learning Culture
Mersey Care is a national pioneer in developing a Just and Learning Culture in the NHS. In the two years since we began work on Just and Learning Culture, we have achieved significant impact for our staff with a 54% reduction in disciplinary investigations.
In the year ahead, we will consolidate our progress and ‘hard wire’ cultural change by embedding Just and Learning Culture within every day working practices. Our priorities in 2019/20 are set out below:
Milestones for 2019/20:• Developing and implementing a tool / framework
to support restorative conversations in practice. • Developing a tool/framework, aligned to our
organisational values, that fosters and supports civility in practice.
• Every team to have Just and Learning conversations, highlighting learning from routine with processes working well, alongside learning from processes when something doesn’t go to plan.
• Refreshing Datix (incident reporting) pro-formas, process, training offered and guidance on completion.
We will also focus within our Just and Learning Culture on the experience of black, asian and minority ethnic staff and of those who share protected characteristics.
4.3. Working side by side with service users and carers
Seeing things from our service users’ perspectives, and working side by side with them to design and improve services gives us powerful opportunities to continually improve experience and outcomes for the people we serve and to stop doing things which don’t add value.
Over recent years, the way in which Mersey Care engages and works with service users and carers has evolved from simply talking to people; to getting people more involved; to asking people to actively participate in our work. The acquisition of community health services, as well as the need for a Foundation Trust to engage more actively with a wider membership and the communities we serve, requires us to think differently about and strengthen our approach to engagement.
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considering service improvement and redesign. This approach was developed taking account of feedback from various service user and carer groups as well as the discussions with members of the Service User and Carer Assembly.
Life RoomsOur Life Rooms in Walton and Southport have had over 80,000 visits since their openings in May 2016 and 2017 respectively. Life Rooms at Hugh Baird College in Sefton opened in February 2019, with a focus on meeting the needs of young people. Currently over 60 GPs are referring to the Life Rooms and over 3,500 social prescriptions are managed.
In the year ahead, the Life Rooms will continue to be strengthened in order to provide support to people outside the traditional models of service delivery and enable people to take more control over their health and recovery. This will build upon the established Life Rooms pathways for patients discharged from community mental health team caseloads. In partnership with Liverpool and Sefton Provider Alliances, the Life Rooms will form part of a single ‘social prescribing’ pathway for Liverpool and Sefton which makes the most of the community and voluntary sector non medical support and services with neighbourhoods.
Milestones for 2019/20• Pilot a new side by side process for active
participation (co-production) when considering service improvement / redesign by March 2020
• Pilot service user and carer participation in our leadership programmes by March 2020
• Pilot ‘Always events’ for carers within Specialist Learning Disability services from June 2019, and review with a view to further roll out
• Pilot carer passports across the Trust from June 2019
• Pilot Life Rooms Ashworth by March 2020• Continued development our student mental health
offer• Contribute to the design and delivery of a social
innovation model for Liverpool and Sefton in support of integrated care teams throughout 2019/20.
Key measures:• 90% compliance with Triangle of Care in mental
health services. We will develop measures applicable for the breadth of our services in 2019/20.
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5.1. Maintaining financial balance
NHS Operational, Planning and Contracting Guidance published in January 2019, sets out how the five year funding settlement for the NHS announced in June 2018 will be implemented. This, amongst other national finance changes has resulted in a change in the Trust’s control total for 2019/20 of breakeven.Over recent years the Trust has acquired several organisations which has increased our turnover from £213m (April 2016) to £370m (April 2019). Over the same period the Trust’s surplus has reduced to £1.842m which reflects the additional level of investment across front line services.
In 2018/19 the Trust will achieve its financial control total. However, in achieving the financial position the Trust has experienced financial risks associated with:• Medical staffing cost pressures• Non achievement of corporate efficiency savings• Non delivery of savings anticipated from the
integration of physical and mental health.
In 2019/20 the Trust has a financial plan of breakeven which will attract a Provider Sustainability Fund allocation of £3.721m. This creates an overall use of resources risk rating of 2 which is expected to improve
to 1 by the end of the financial year as a result of the Trust achieving its agency spend target.
Additional investment identified as part of the NHS Long Term Plan recognises mental health and community services as areas of priority. As such, financial resources have been identified through the national NHS five year funding settlement to support the delivery of the service transformation. This will enable the achievement of mental health investment standard alongside support for current and future cost pressures associated with a growth in demand.
We have reviewed our cost improvement scheme in light of the changing demand and acuity facing our clinical services. We have also taken account of the recommendations of the Carter Review regarding corporate/back office functions.
As a result the efficiency savings planned for 2019/20 are set out in figure 5.
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This translates into a cost improvement plan (CIP) of £10.041m. The Trust will deliver the service and workforce changes necessary to release this efficiency saving whilst maintaining a high quality and safe clinical services.
The financial plan recognises a number of risks which will need to be addressed in 2019/20. They are medical staffing cost pressures, corporate services transformation programme and mental health and community service integration savings.
We will take the following actions in order to management those risks effectively:
• Medical staffing – In the year ahead, we will improve medical recruitment and retention, reducing relliance on medical locums, and embed a Just and Learning Culture. We will develop new roles (physician associates) as part of a wider restructure of medical leadership roles and a new approach to job planning.
• Community services – Implementation of the community services improvement programme post-Kirkup will continue in the year ahead, taking account of the emerging findings from the post-acquisition review work. Our ability to deliver the required transformational change safely at the intended pace is challenged by the level of clinical and quality risk that transferred with the services. The introduction of additional funding has enabled the Trust to defer any efficiency requirements until the service has been stabilised.
• Corporate services – Effective corporate services are essential in supporting our clinical divisions to provide high quality care. In the year ahead, we will develop our corporate services so they consistently provide high quality customer service and enable us to deliver our strategy now and in the future. Following the acquisitions of Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Liverpool Community Health NHS
Trust, our corporate services have grown and in 2019/20 we will agree a new target operating model for high quality corporate services within Mersey Care by December 2019, which will also generate efficiencies and cost savings to support delivery of our cost improvement plans. The cost improvement plan for corporate services in 2019/20 is £6.501m. Some of these corporate savings will be delivered by the opportunities highlighted within the Carter recommendations. In addition, the trust has begun to implement more collaborative working across the local delivery system and wider health economy with regards to corporate functions.
Milestones for 2019/20:• Agree principles of corporate target operating
model and identify high level opportunities from stakeholder engagement by June 2019
• Develop target operating model by September 2019
• Commence implementation of target operating model, including consultation where required, by December 2019
• Target operating model implemented by April 2020
• Throughout this process, implementation of functional CIPs identified through diagnostic exercise.
Key measures• Deliver total Cost Improvement Plan (CIPs) of
£10.041, of which £6.501m relates to corporate services, in 2019/20.
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Figure 5: Cost efficiency savings required
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Capital developments 2019/20 *subject to business case approval 2019/20 (£m)Medium secure unit (Rowan View) 27.9Low secure unit* 1.5Southport Redevelopment (Hartley Hospital) 5.4Community Hub Investment* 1.0Global Digital Exemplar 1.9Secure ward refurbishments 4.2Liverpool Inpatient Facility (Liverpool 2) – Scoping /Enabling* 1.0Step Down Unit* 2.0Training Facility* 1.0High Secure HDU Redevelopment* 0.5 Saturn House* 0.5Total 46.9
Figure 6: Our estates framework 2019 to 2024
Figure 7: Capital developments 2019/20
5.2. Improving our estate
Our vision is for our buildings to not only meet 21st century standards but to reshape services themselves, allowing us to deliver integrated care which is more preventative and less crisis-focussed, whilst delivering clinical excellence in our services. Specifically, in developing our estate, we will ensure that the right environment is provided to deliver integrated care for neighbourhoods of 30,000 to 50,000 people and stratify our beds according to acuity of need. Our estates framework (2019 to 2024) is summarised below in figure 6:
Since 2012 we have invested £97m in our estate to provide high quality care. This includes the opening of Clock View, the Sid Watkins Brain Injury Unit, the Hope Centre (addictions), investment in community mental health bases, high secure ward refurbishments and a brand new pharmacy.
We are also investing a further £72m in building a new 123 bed medium secure unit (Rowan View) and a 40 bed inpatient facility in Southport (Hartley Hospital).
The Trust plans to invest £46.9m in its estate in 2019/20.
In addition to these investments set out in figure 7, we are also planning a new inpatient facility in Liverpool, a new low secure unit for people with learning disabilities and a new high dependency unit in high secure. These projects are subject to capital funding being available.
It is important that the we continue to deliver a surplus and manage our resources effectively, as this allows us to continually invest in improving our estate.
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Our estates developments will be tested against a number of key principles, which reflect our service transformation and quality improvement priorities: • Our buildings will support the Trust’s ambition
to deliver Perfect Care (safe, timely, effective, equitable, patient centred)
• Our buildings will reflect the clinical and emotional needs of service users
• Our buildings will provide an environment in which colleagues want to work
• Our buildings will support agreed partnership pathways across the health economy and wider community.
Milestones for 2019/20:• System wide review of community estate in
partnership with other organisations within each ‘Place’ (for example, Liverpool and Sefton) to enable integrated care.
• Identification of pilot neighbourhoods for shared estate by May 2019 and mobilisation thereafter.
• Continued development of Southport’s Hartley Hospital – due to open from Autumn 2019
• Continued development of Rowan View Medium Secure Unit – due to open Autumn 2020
• Continued planning for Liverpool 2 and Learning Disabilities Low Secure Unit
• Planning and business case for high secure high dependency improvement works
• Forward plan for future use of Whalley and Maghull sites
• Work with Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership (STP) to enable consolidation of estate across Cheshire and Merseyside and ensure that Mersey Care developments are reflected in their capital planning.
Key measuresOver the five years of our strategic estates plan (2019 to 2024), we will see:• 5% savings on estates running costs• Reduction from 8% (2018/19 baseline) unoccupied
floor space to 2.5%• Increase from 59% (2018/19 baseline) of facilities
in acceptable condition/satisfactory performance to 100%
• Increase from 42% (2018/19 baseline) of estates in category B condition or above to 100%.
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5.3. Invest in digital technology
Digital technology will transform the way we deliver person-centred, productive, and integrated care. Digital tools and systems have already changed how we operate, but we know there is so much more that technology can do to help us work effectively, safely, and efficiently. We also know that digitisation is as much about people as it is about technology.
Digital solutions must be designed around insight, co-production and digital skills development with our workforce and with our service users.
Our vision is to transform the digital experience for our workforce and the populations we serve so that technology is both the visible alternative to traditional ways of working and the invisible enabler, working effectively in the foreground and background supporting what we do.
Figure 8 shows the way in which digital technology can support us to meet growing demand for services and our workforce and financial challenges.
Figure 8: Using technology as a solution to our long term challenges
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In 2019/20 we will invest strategic capital to strengthen our digital foundations.
Our aspiration to fundamentally redefine the way services use digital technology will only be realised if we have a strong, dependable and cyber secure infrastructure. The following themes are therefore key in a rolling programme of infrastructure and core technology upgrades:
• The right tools for the job – End user device rolling replacement programme, including upgrading all of the PC/Laptop estate to Windows 10 by January 2020.
• Wi-Fi – Upgrading the Wi-Fi infrastructure to improve connectivity by July 2019.
• Agile working – Roll out Express Access as part of the rolling replacement programme; and Skype for business by May 2019.
• Servers and data centres – Upgrading and consolidating servers for improved performance and efficiency, including Windows Server 2016 updates by January 2020.
We’ll also continue building on our plans as a Global Digital Exemplar by embedding digital tools in services and innovating to develop digital solutions that help align the right resources to the right people and enable the right care.
Digital technology is a critical enabler of our plans to provide proactive integrated care at neighbourhood level. As such we launched a personal health record system in December 2018 and are working with other providers in Cheshire and Merseyside to share clinical records to improve continuity of care by having access to discharge letters; clinical correspondence; pathology and labs; and GP records. Mersey Care will share care plans; crisis plans and discharge letters with other providers.
By rolling out paperlight solutions, we will allow our clinicians working in the community to capture data at the point of care and have access to key information from anywhere at any time.
Milestones for 2019/20• Mobilise personal health record pilot sites at
neighbourhood level with three community integration teams testing the functionality of: shared care plans, crisis plans and appointments from the RiO and EMIS Community Systems; goal setting; trackers for mood, sleep and activity; and diary in April 2019.
• Launch phase two of personal health record pilot sites with at least 5 integration teams to include: link to social prescribing platform; messaging; social care data; and patient surveys and questionnaires from September 2019.
• Join the regional clinical record sharing platform Share2Care in August 2019.
• Link the Personal Health Record to the Share2Care platform to give service users and patients access to parts of their clinical records from all providers across Cheshire and Merseyside region by March 2020.
• Modernise patient administration system in Community Equipment Store (go live March 2019), Child Health Information Service (digital enhancements throughout 2019/20) and Sexual Health (go live March 2020).
• We aim for all adult community services to have completed paperlight by March 2020
• Work with our digital system provider Informatics Merseyside to gain security assurance accreditations for the systems they provide by March 2020.
Key measures:• An increase from current levels to a minimum
of 70% digital maturity, with 85% maturity achieved in relation to clinical records, by 2020/21. We aim to achieve 90% digital maturity by 2024/25.
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6.1. Developing Provider Alliances
Mersey Care must work with other organisations if we are to deliver our aspiration for continuous improvement, reflecting population health and integration set out in this operational plan. Mersey Care is leading the development of place-based care in Liverpool and Sefton, and the development of a more effective secure services pathway with providers across Cheshire and Merseyside.
Place-based provider alliancesWe have established Provider Alliances in both Liverpool and Sefton which bring together health, social care, third sector and housing providers to use our collective resources to deliver new, integrated models of care designed to improve the health and wellbeing of our communities. We will work together to reduce fragmentation of care for people with complex comorbidities, ensuring the person is at the centre of our decision making. Our new community based services will focus on prevention and proactive care, thereby reducing demand on crisis and urgent care, and promoting choice and independence. This new model of care is focussed on delivering highly effective integrated care teams for populations of 30,000 to 50,000.
In the future, we expect that the Provider Alliances will have a greater influence over tactical commissioning
decisions with the role of CCGs being one of a strategic commissioner, setting the outcomes for its populations. As a result, in 2019/20, we will establish formalised programme management arrangements for the Provider Alliances under the leadership of Mersey Care.
In the year ahead, the Provider Alliances will deliberately move away from multitude of condition specific projects/schemes driven by a single condition policy or targets and identify high impact collective action for population by segmentation and identifying needs, service utilisation and alternative for particular cohorts/segments of the population. Together, we will also work to deliver the children’s transformation plan for Liverpool.
The Provider Alliances will build new operating system (people, processes and technology) for integrated care, specifically:• Integrated care teams based on neighbourhoods
for 30,000 to 50,000 population• Social prescribing to support integrated care teams
at 30,000 to 50,000• Outpatient services and alternatives• Digital technology to support integrated care
teams and outpatient review• Urgent care review
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The operating system will be tested for two population segments in 2019 - frailty/dementia, and complex needs. Achieving measurable change for these cohorts will be high impact for the health system and will generate ‘headroom’ for further change in the system over the longer term.
For Mersey Care, this will mean more integrated working for Mersey Care’s community physical and mental health, learning disability and addiction services. Staff in our local and community divisions will be expected to work increasingly on a neighbourhood basis and as part of an all-age ‘one team’ ethos for that neighbourhood. This will mean closer working with colleagues from social care, housing, the voluntary sector and other agencies working in that neighbourhood.
We are conscious of the need to ensure that the pace of integration of existing Mersey Care services is carefully managed and does not distract colleagues from delivering other aspects of our operational plan. To this end, we will carefully plan the phases of integration with operational colleagues.
Milestones for 2019-20 • Establish integrated care teams in each of the 16
neighbourhoods across Liverpool and Sefton by October 2019.
Key measures:• Effectiveness of team working using ITMA tool
(Integrated Team Monitoring and Assessment)• Patient experience and activation using validated
measurement framework• Hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge• Delayed transfers of care.
PROSPECT new care model in secure servicesMersey Care will also continue to develop provider alliances for our secure mental health services.
Our PROSPECT partnership was established to manage the local low and medium secure bed base in an efficient and consistent way, and that any changes to practice and provision are subject to the PROSPECT 4D test, and therefore must impact in one of the following ways; minimise delay, reduce duplication, avoid drift, prevent disempowerment.
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Figure 9: PROSPECT 4D test: Our new care model
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Milestones for 2019/20:• ‘Go live’ as a New Care Model site, following sign-
off of a full business case by July 2019.• Ongoing implementation of a new clinical
model of care which has been developed by the PROSPECT Clinical Network, specifically a single point of assessment and clinical oversight group.
• Bidding for national money to develop enhanced community forensic services to deliver a much more robust community offer and pathway by May 2019.
• Continuing to work with local commissioning colleagues to design and deliver a housing and community support for people discharged from a forensic pathway.
Key measures• Reduce average length of stay for service users
within the PROSPECT low and medium secure services by 5% once the single point of assessment and clinical oversight group are fully implemented.
6.2 Research and development
While there is good knowledge about causes and treatment of mental disorders there are still many gaps which need further understanding and research if we are to improve outcomes. Mersey Care’s aim is to increase research into mental health conditions across the life span, support treatment discovery in biological, psychological social and digital sciences and bring these benefits to help mental and physical health services to provide better health outcomes. As our services grow and there is greater integration with physical health and focus on population health we will work with other stakeholders and partners to support, develop and conduct research in these disciplines too.
Milestones for 2019/20:• Increase our capability in conducting and delivering
research by developing a programme of training and support to increase the number of clinicians involved in active research as Chief Investigators and Principle investigators and continue to achieve
our targets for National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) adopted studies.
• Form a strategic alliance with Liverpool Health Partners to influence collective effort towards mental health research in the city of Liverpool. Through this collaboration and with Clinical Trials Units in acute provider Trusts, we will seek to conduct our first commercial clinical trial.
• Support ongoing digital research (Swim app, AVERT – artificial intelligence applications) to completion and scope further research in evolving technologies.
• Continue to support internally generated research towards Perfect Care priorities of suicide prevention, reducing restraint, improving physical health and Just and Learning Culture.
• Work with academic partners to apply for external research grants.
Key measures:• Five additional Chief Investigators and Principle
Investigators in place by March 2020.• Achievement of our external research grant target
of one external grant in 2019/20.
6.3 Commercialising our knowledge assets
The overarching aim of Mersey Care’s commercial strategy is to deliver a financial return which contributes to the Trust’s efficiencies and additional income targets, helping to reinvest back into the Trust, safeguarding and developing the front line services that the we provide.
Mersey Care possesses a unique combination of clinical expertise and academic expertise, in a broad range of specialist areas. Our improvement and innovation cycle has the potential to generate more value to be reinvested back into the NHS, through developing consultancy to other organisations and through developing services and products that are valuable to the wider health system (for example, the Zero Suicide Alliance).
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Milestones for 2019/20• Finalise Commercial Opportunity Assessment Tool
kit by April 2020• Create a process and develop expertise for the
management, protection, development and commercialisation of our intellectual property (IP) assets, which runs alongside our innovation process by October 2019
• Develop a ‘commercial and innovation’ process for internal and external opportunities, and be able to manage these through a process including Commercial Assessment, intellectual property and trademarking process, marketing and management and support and development of a commercial pipeline by October 2020
• Develop a governance and quality assurance process to identify our assets, develop our assets and then commercialise our products. The majority of our products will be developed from a research and evidence base (Centre for Perfect Care) through our innovation process.
• Progress areas identified as truly distinctive and market leading in recent commercialisation review from April 2019.
Key measures:• Successful progress of three commercial
opportunities by October 2019 and six by March 2020
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Figure 10: Commercialising our knowledge capital to reinvest back into the NHS
New ventures and innovation
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7.1 What this plan means for our divisions
We have worked with each of our divisions in the production of this plan and in the following pages we set out their specific areas of focus in supporting the delivery if this operation al plan in 2019/20.
7.2 Executive Performance Review
Delivery against both our strategic aims and operational plan priorities will be reported via the Executive Performance Report, which will be updated to reflect the structure and priorities set out in our plans along with the measures and targets set for 2019/20.
Quarterly performance reviews with each division, established in 2018/19, will continue, identifying areas of under performance and agreeing performance improvement plans where required. This will ensure regular oversight of delivery of our operational plan in 2019/20.
We will also undertake quarterly performance reviews with our corporate strategic programmes, to ensure delivery by corporate services of our strategy and plan, continually prioritising our resources in year.
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STEE
P:
Safe
•
Con
tinue
d us
e of
qua
lity
impr
ovem
ent
met
hodo
logy
to
addr
ess
high
le
vels
of
ligat
ure
inci
dent
s in
spe
cial
ist
lear
ning
dis
abili
ty s
ervi
ces
(SLD
) in
201
9/20
• U
nder
stan
d an
d ad
dres
s se
lf ha
rm a
t th
e Be
acon
ser
vice
Mar
ch 2
020.
Tim
ely
• Im
prov
ed a
cces
s to
reh
abili
tatio
n vi
a pi
lot
of L
ife R
oom
s A
shw
orth
by
Mar
ch 2
020
• Fo
cus
of s
peci
alis
t su
ppor
t te
ams
on d
isch
arge
pla
nnin
g/ s
uppo
rt.
Effe
ctiv
e•
Plan
ning
for
red
evel
opm
ent
of a
dmis
sion
and
hig
h de
pend
ency
uni
t by
Mar
ch 2
024.
• Pl
anni
ng f
or S
LD lo
w s
ecur
e un
it, s
ubje
ct t
o fu
ndin
g.
Equ
itab
le:
• M
onito
ring
of lo
ng t
erm
seg
rega
tion
and
rest
rictiv
e pr
actic
e by
pro
tect
ed c
hara
cter
istic
s.
Pers
on
-cen
tred
• ‘A
lway
s ev
ent’
pilo
ts f
or c
arer
s w
ithin
SLD
fro
m J
une
2019
• C
arer
pas
spor
t pi
lot
with
in id
entifi
ed s
ervi
ces
from
Jun
e 20
19.
Ou
r R
eso
urc
es•
Secu
re w
ard
refu
rbis
hmen
t pr
ogra
mm
e•
Secu
re H
DU
red
evel
opm
ent
prog
ram
me
• O
pen
Row
an v
iew
med
ium
sec
ure
unit
in A
utum
n 20
20.
• Sp
ecia
list
LD lo
w s
ecur
e un
it pr
ogra
mm
e (s
ubje
ct t
o fu
ndin
g)•
Cor
e te
chno
logy
upg
rade
pro
gram
me.
Ou
r Fu
ture
• G
o liv
e as
a n
ew c
are
mod
el f
or s
ecur
e se
rvic
es (P
ROSP
ECT)
fro
m
June
201
9.•
Impl
emen
t ne
w c
linic
al m
odel
of
care
dev
elop
ed b
y PR
OSP
ECT
clin
ical
net
wor
k, s
peci
fical
ly s
ingl
e po
int
of a
cces
s an
d cl
inic
al
over
sigh
t gr
oup
• Bi
d fo
r na
tiona
l mon
ies
to e
nhan
ce c
omm
unity
for
ensi
c se
rvic
es.
We
will
mea
sure
ou
r d
eliv
ery
of
ou
r d
ivis
ion
al p
rio
riti
es w
ith
in t
he
op
erat
ion
al p
lan
usi
ng
th
ese
key
ind
icat
ors
:•
Mai
ntai
n an
d im
prov
e ex
istin
g C
QC
goo
d ra
tings
• Re
duce
d le
ngth
of
stay
in s
egre
gatio
n•
Redu
ced
use
of fl
oor
rest
rain
t (s
upin
e) in
Spe
cial
ist
LD•
Incr
ease
d ta
ke u
p of
mod
erat
e ex
erci
se•
Redu
ced
leve
ls o
f ha
rm•
Redu
ced
leng
th o
f st
ay a
nd d
elay
ed d
isch
arge
s•
Patie
nt e
xper
ienc
e of
tho
se w
ith p
rote
cted
cha
ract
eris
tics
• St
aff
sick
ness
leve
ls•
Equa
lity,
div
ersi
ty a
nd in
clus
ion
staf
f ex
perie
nce.
Wh
at t
his
op
erat
ion
al p
lan
mea
ns
for
us
in 2
019/
20 –
Se
cure
an
d S
pec
ialis
t Le
arn
ing
Dis
abili
ty D
ivis
ion
s
Ou
r Pe
op
le•
Inte
grat
e se
cure
and
spe
cial
ist
lear
ning
dis
abili
ty d
ivis
ions
by
Dec
embe
r 20
19•
Impl
emen
t cu
lture
of
care
bar
omet
er•
Team
acc
redi
tatio
n pr
ogra
mm
e•
Impl
emen
t di
visi
onal
Jus
t an
d Le
arni
ng C
ultu
re a
ctio
n pl
an•
Use
new
sid
e by
sid
e pr
oces
s fo
r ac
tive
part
icip
atio
n in
ser
vice
im
prov
emen
t/ r
edes
ign
by M
arch
202
0•
Pilo
t Li
fe R
oom
s A
shw
orth
fro
m M
arch
202
0.
Item F1a - REVISED APPENDIX 1 of Operational Plan 2019/20
Ou
r Se
rvic
esLo
ng
ter
m q
ual
ity
imp
rove
men
t -
Perf
ect
Car
e ar
eas:
Zero
su
icid
e:•
Ensu
re c
ompl
ianc
e w
ith le
vel 1
sui
cide
tra
inin
g.
Red
uci
ng
res
trai
nt
• A
cces
s to
de-
esca
latio
n/ b
reak
away
tra
inin
g fo
r pr
iorit
ised
sta
ff b
y M
arch
202
0.
Phys
ical
hea
lth
• Sh
are
lear
ning
fro
m W
ard
35 r
egar
ding
fal
ls a
sses
smen
t an
d m
anag
emen
t ac
ross
clin
ical
div
isio
ns.
Pres
sure
ulc
ers
• Ze
ro d
eter
iora
tion
of p
ress
ure
ulce
rs w
ithin
our
car
e.•
Del
iver
pro
gram
me
of t
arge
ted
trai
ning
to
men
tal h
ealth
sta
ff o
n pr
essu
re u
lcer
s/ s
kin
care
by
Mar
ch
2020
.
Lear
nin
g f
rom
dea
ths
• Im
plem
ent
actio
n pl
an p
rodu
ced
follo
win
g re
view
of
harm
in L
iver
pool
Com
mun
ity
Hea
lth s
ervi
ces.
Co
nti
nu
ou
s q
ual
ity
imp
rove
men
t –
STEE
P:
Safe
: •
Focu
ssed
aw
aren
ess-
rais
ing
and
incr
ease
d re
port
ing
of s
afeg
uard
ing
risks
.•
Impl
emen
t th
e C
hild
ren
in C
are
Qua
lity
Impr
ovem
ent
Plan
.•
Full
impl
emen
tatio
n of
pos
t-K
irkup
qua
lity
and
safe
ty im
prov
emen
t pl
an.
• Im
plem
ent
stan
dard
ised
saf
ety
hudd
les
from
Apr
il 20
19, a
udite
d qu
arte
rly
Tim
ely
• Re
duce
wai
ting
times
for
the
rapi
es s
ervi
ces
alig
ned
to T
rust
-wid
e re
view
of
ther
apie
s.•
Impl
emen
t Re
d2G
reen
acr
oss
ever
y ap
plic
able
com
mun
ity s
ervi
ce b
y O
ctob
er 2
019.
• 10
0% C
HC
ass
essm
ents
with
in 2
8 da
ys o
f id
entifi
catio
n by
Mar
ch 2
020.
Effe
ctiv
e•
Dev
elop
and
impl
emen
t ac
cess
and
ass
essm
ent
targ
ets
for
end
of li
fe c
are
by
Sept
embe
r 20
19.
• W
ithin
spe
cial
ist
serv
ices
, max
imis
e pr
even
tion
offe
r in
201
9/20
.•
Sing
le p
oint
of
cont
act
for
dist
rict
nurs
ing
and
com
mun
ity m
atro
ns b
y Se
ptem
ber
2019
.•
Revi
ew o
f sm
all t
eam
s w
ithin
com
mun
ity s
ervi
ces
by J
uly
2019
.
Equ
itab
le:
• Fu
ll pr
otec
ted
char
acte
ristic
s re
cord
ed a
cros
s al
l ser
vice
s an
d re
view
ed a
long
side
har
m d
ata.
• Re
view
ref
erra
l doc
umen
tatio
n to
ens
ure
early
iden
tifica
tion
of le
arni
ng d
isab
ility
by
Mar
ch 2
020.
Pers
on
-cen
tred
• C
arer
s as
sess
men
t ro
utin
ely
offe
red
by D
ecem
ber
2019
• Im
plem
ent
patie
nt in
form
atio
n le
aflet
s at
poi
nt o
f tr
ansi
tion
by S
epte
mbe
r 20
19
Ou
r Pe
op
le•
Inte
grat
e lo
cal a
nd c
omm
unity
div
isio
ns b
y A
pril
2020
.•
Mob
ilise
inte
grat
ed c
are
team
s, in
clud
ing
Chi
ldre
n’s
serv
ices
, acr
oss
all 1
6 ne
ighb
ourh
oods
by
Oct
ober
201
9.•
Org
anis
atio
nal c
hang
e w
ith s
ervi
ce li
ne d
eliv
ery
alig
ned
to
neig
hbou
rhoo
d de
liver
y by
May
201
9.•
Impl
emen
t cu
ltur e
of
care
bar
omet
er•
T eam
acc
redi
tatio
n pr
ogra
mm
e em
bedd
ed b
y O
ctob
er 2
019.
• Im
plem
ent
divi
sion
al J
ust
and
Lear
ning
Cul
ture
act
ion
plan
• En
hanc
ed p
sych
olog
ical
sta
f f s
uppo
rt o
ffer
for
com
mun
ity s
taff
by
June
201
9, o
pera
tiona
l acr
oss
all s
ervi
ces
by M
arch
202
0.•
Use
new
sid
e by
sid
e pr
oces
s fo
r ac
tive
part
icip
atio
n in
ser
vice
im
prov
emen
t/ r
edes
ign
by M
arch
202
0.•
Embe
d cl
inic
al c
ompe
tenc
ies
in O
LM a
nd r
epor
ting
by S
epte
mbe
r 20
19
Ou
r R
eso
urc
es•
Revi
ew o
ur c
omm
unity
est
ate
in p
artn
ersh
ip w
ith o
ther
or
gani
satio
ns•
Iden
tifica
tion
of p
ilot
neig
hbou
rhoo
ds f
or s
hare
d es
tate
by
May
20
19.
• C
ore
tech
nolo
gy u
pgra
de p
rogr
amm
e•
Pape
rlite
acr
oss
all a
dult
com
mun
ity s
ervi
ces
by M
arch
202
0.•
Mob
ilise
use
of
Shar
e2C
are
clin
ical
rec
ords
pla
tfor
m f
rom
Aug
ust
2019
.•
Mod
erni
se p
atie
nt a
dmin
istr
atio
n sy
stem
s in
CES
, CH
IS a
nd s
exua
l he
alth
.
Ou
r Fu
ture
• D
eliv
er in
tegr
ated
car
e as
par
t of
Pro
vide
r A
llian
ce p
riorit
ies
in
Live
rpoo
l and
Sef
ton,
wor
king
with
Prim
ary
Car
e N
etw
orks
.
We
will
mea
sure
ou
r d
eliv
ery
of
ou
r d
ivis
ion
al p
rio
riti
es w
ith
in t
he
op
erat
ion
al p
lan
usi
ng
th
ese
key
ind
icat
ors
:•
CQ
C g
ood
acro
ss a
ll se
rvic
es•
End
of li
fe a
cces
s an
d re
spon
se t
imes
• W
aitin
g tim
es f
or t
hera
pies
• U
rgen
t ca
re r
espo
nsiv
enes
s•
Patie
nt s
atis
fact
ion
and
goal
att
ainm
ent
(inte
grat
ion
scor
ecar
d)•
Redu
ced
leve
ls o
f ha
rm•
Patie
nt e
xper
ienc
e of
tho
se w
ith p
rote
cted
cha
ract
eris
tics
• St
aff
sick
ness
leve
ls•
Equa
lity ,
div
ersi
ty a
nd in
clus
ion
staf
f ex
perie
nce
Wh
at t
his
op
erat
ion
al p
lan
mea
ns
for
us
in 2
019/
20 –
C
om
mu
nit
y D
ivis
ion
Item F1a - REVISED APPENDIX 1 of Operational Plan 2019/20
Ou
r Se
rvic
esLo
ng
ter
m q
ual
ity
imp
rove
men
t -
Perf
ect
Car
e ar
eas:
Zero
su
icid
e:•
Sing
le r
isk
man
agem
ent
fram
ewor
k th
at in
corp
orat
es s
afet
y pl
anni
ng, r
isk
asse
ssm
ent
and
form
ulat
ion
deve
lope
d an
d ro
lled
out
to 1
00%
pat
ient
s by
Mar
ch 2
020
• D
ecis
ion-
supp
ort
fram
ewor
k
Red
uci
ng
res
trai
nt
• A
gree
(by
Oct
ober
201
9) a
nd im
plem
ent
an a
cuity
mea
sure
acr
oss
all w
ards
by
Mar
ch 2
020.
• Im
plem
ent
the
appr
opria
te c
ore
redu
cing
res
tric
tive
prac
tice
inte
rven
tions
in a
ll w
ards
by
Apr
il 20
20.
Phys
ical
hea
lth
• C
ontin
ue t
o im
prov
e ph
ysic
al h
ealth
scr
eeni
ng p
erfo
rman
ce a
cros
s th
e di
visi
on w
ith a
foc
us o
n co
mm
unity
ser
vice
s.
Pres
sure
ulc
ers
• Re
ceiv
e pr
ogra
mm
e of
in-r
each
and
tra
inin
g fr
om c
omm
unity
phy
sica
l hea
lth
serv
ices
, prio
ritis
ing
com
plex
car
e w
ards
Lear
nin
g f
rom
dea
ths
• U
nder
take
tw
o th
emat
ic r
evie
ws
base
d on
mor
talit
y da
te b
y M
arch
202
0.•
Ensu
r e o
utco
mes
fro
m a
ll re
view
s ar
e di
scus
sed
mon
thly
in g
over
nanc
e m
eetin
gs.
Co
nti
nu
ou
s q
ual
ity
imp
rove
men
t –
STEE
P:
Safe
: •
Impr
ove
risk
asse
ssm
ent
proc
ess
for
leav
e (c
oron
ers
lett
er d
ate)
with
le
ave
plan
s in
pla
ce f
or a
ll se
rvic
e us
ers
by A
pril
2019
.•
Stan
dard
ised
ele
ctro
nic
solu
tion
obse
rvat
ions
and
ass
essm
ents
, ena
bled
by
digi
tal b
oard
by
Mar
ch 2
020.
Tim
ely
• Im
plem
ent
actio
n pl
an t
o r e
duce
wai
ting
times
for
psy
chol
ogic
al t
hera
pies
, w
ith t
raje
ctor
ies
set
by A
pril
2019
.•
Impl
emen
t Re
d2G
reen
in e
very
inpa
tient
war
ds b
y O
ctob
er 2
019.
• D
eliv
er n
atio
nal I
APT
rec
over
y an
d w
aitin
g tim
es t
arge
ts, s
ubje
ct t
o co
mm
issi
oner
fu
ndin
g.
Effe
ctiv
e•
Impl
emen
t C
risis
Res
olut
ion
and
Hom
e Tr
eatm
ent
(CRH
T) w
ith f
ull r
ecru
itmen
t in
pla
ce b
y M
ay 2
019.
• Im
plem
ent
unit
co-o
rdin
ator
res
ourc
e ac
ross
inpa
tient
ser
vice
s by
Apr
il 20
19.
Equ
itab
le:
Embe
d pr
otec
ted
char
acte
ristic
s in
all
gove
rnan
ce m
onito
ring
from
Apr
il 20
19.
Pers
on
-cen
tred
• Re
view
and
ado
pt s
ecur
e se
rvic
e ca
rer
invo
lvem
ent
tool
kit
with
div
isio
nal a
ctio
n pl
an b
y Ju
ne 2
019.
Ou
r Pe
op
le•
Inte
grat
e lo
cal a
nd c
omm
unity
div
isio
ns b
y A
pril
2020
.•
Impl
emen
t cu
ltur e
of
care
bar
omet
er•
T eam
acc
redi
tatio
n pr
ogra
mm
e•
Impl
emen
t di
visi
onal
Jus
t an
d Le
arni
ng C
ultu
re a
ctio
n pl
an•
Use
new
sid
e by
sid
e pr
oces
s fo
r ac
tive
part
icip
atio
n in
ser
vice
im
prov
emen
t/ r
edes
ign
by M
arch
202
0.
Ou
r R
eso
urc
es•
Revi
ew o
ur c
omm
unity
est
ate
in p
artn
ersh
ip w
ith o
ther
or
gani
satio
ns•
Ope
n H
artle
y H
ospi
tal i
n A
utum
n 20
19.
• C
ontin
ued
plan
ning
for
Liv
erpo
ol 2
inpa
tient
uni
t.•
Cor
e te
chno
logy
upg
rade
pro
gram
me
• M
obili
se u
se o
f Sh
are2
Car
e cl
inic
al r
ecor
ds p
latf
orm
fro
m A
ugus
t 20
19.
Ou
r Fu
ture
• D
evel
op p
rimar
y ca
re m
enta
l hea
lth r
ole
to s
uppo
rt in
tegr
ated
car
e at
nei
ghbo
urho
od le
vel,
subj
ect
to c
omm
issi
oner
fun
ding
.•
Lead
Per
sona
lity
Dis
orde
r re
desi
gn a
s pa
rt o
f C
hesh
ire a
nd
Mer
seys
ide
Hea
lth a
nd C
are
Part
ners
hip
prio
ritie
s.
We
will
mea
sure
ou
r d
eliv
ery
of
ou
r d
ivis
ion
al p
rio
riti
es w
ith
in t
he
op
erat
ion
al p
lan
usi
ng
th
ese
key
ind
icat
ors
:•
CQ
C g
ood
acro
ss a
ll se
rvic
es•
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our
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to p
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plem
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g a
new
ta
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odel
for
cor
pora
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by A
pril
2020
.
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pora
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of
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r d
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riti
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in t
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op
erat
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al p
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ve fi
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eliv
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orpo
rate
CIP
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f si
ckne
ss le
vels
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ualit
y, d
iver
sity
and
incl
usio
n st
aff
expe
rienc
e•
Esta
tes
impr
ovem
ent
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igita
l mat
urity
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at t
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erat
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ns
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te D
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FINANCIAL IMPACT OF THIS PLAN8
8.1 Resourcing our strategic priorities
Delivering our strategy will enable Mersey Care to remain in financial balance, through service redesign that develops more preventative and integrated services, but also through focusing on our main financial risks of medical recruitment, corporate services and community services.
The initiatives that we will pursue in 2019/20 are accounted for within our financial planning for the year ahead. In the main, these initiatives will be resourced through maintained investment, realignment of existing resource and new commissioner resources, subject to contract settlement, as summarised below:
Realignment of existing resource
New resources subject to contract settlement
Maintained investment
Business case required
Planned investment
• Integrated care team implementation
• Side by side active participation process
• Always events for carers• Trust wide therapies
review• ICRAS North Mersey• Integrate clinical
divisions• Introduce integration
for frailty/ dementia, complex lives and children
• Improve community estate in partnership
• Future plans for Whalley and Maghull sites
• Mobilise provider alliances
• Implement new primary care mental health model
• Crisis resolution and home treatment implementation
• PROSPECT new care model
• Perfect Care areas• Consolidate prison
progress• Reduce sickness
absence• Equality and
inclusion• Just and Learning
Culture priorities• Open Hartley
Hospital and Rowan View
• Review and relaunch R&D strategy
• Quality and safety framework
• Develop Life Rooms model
• Core technology upgrade
• Personal health records
• Share2Care clinical record sharing
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Productivity gainA number of our initiatives in 2019/20 will support greater productivity, helping us to maintain financial balance, whilst improving quality with our services. Examples include introducing integration with our services for people with frailty/dementia, where we have identified duplication with our services, reviewing therapies provision across the trust in order to standardise services and improve access. Implementing core technology upgrades, including paperlight, will allow our staff to make better use of their time for face to face care.
Furthermore, we know that integrated, proactive care can bring benefits for the wider system by reducing reliance on hospital care. Evidence from the Kings Fund suggests that those who receive proactive care have a 20% less chance of admission to hospital in the subsequent 12 months.
Cost savingsIn 2019/20, we have identified a £6.501m cost improvement plan (CIP) for our corporate services. Following recent acquisitions, our corporate services have grown. By pursuing opportunities for internal efficiency and greater collaborative working across with wider system partners, we will develop and agree a new target operating model for high quality corporate services by September 2019. This will support our clinical divisions to delivery high quality care and enable us to deliver our strategy now and in the future.
Implementation of the community services improvement programme post-Kirkup will continue in the year ahead, taking account of the emerging findings from the post acquisition review work. Our ability to deliver the required transformational change safely at the intended pace is challenged by the level of clinical and quality risk that transferred with the services.
Through improvements to medical recruitment and retention and embedding our Just and Learning Culture, we will reduce our reliance on costly medical locums in 2019/20. This will accompany the development of new roles as part of a wider restructure of medical leadership and a new approach to job planning within Mersey Care.
Value generationIn the year ahead, we will generate income and value to be reinvested back into our services through commercialising our knowledge assets and progressing our research and development activities with a focus on improving health outcomes.
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79RISKS TO DELIVERYOF THIS PLAN
Risk area (and related BAF risks where relevant)
Risk/impact to plan How the operational plan addresses the risk
Maintaining quality and safety whilst delivering organisational change and efficiency
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If cost reduction becomes a stronger driver than quality, then the quality of our services may be adversely impacted, resulting in quality of care not meeting required standards.
Continuous improvement in STEEP priorities (page 14)Community services improvement plan (page 34) and divisional plans (page 33)Perfect Care priorities (page 13)Regular board monitoring and measurement of delivery of this plan (page 32)Corporate services transformation (page 23)
Delivering the required savings
SRR 2018/19 – 01
If the required savings are not delivered, then we may not achieve best value from our financial resources, resulting in failure to meet financial duties.
Strong management of the CIP delivery programme and focus on top three financial risks (page 23)Monitoring of savings delivery through the PIFC.Long term financial planning.
Our people
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Without appropriate staffing, and leadership skills to lead change, quality of care may not meet required and our clinical transformation and integration plans will not be realised.
People plan (page 18)Workforce modelling and actions to support recruitment and retention, including ‘growing our own’, succession planning, leadership development (page 18) Development of Just and Learning Culture (page 20)Programme of staff engagement.
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Risk area (and related BAF risks where relevant)
Risk/impact to plan How the operational plan addresses the risk
Availability of capital
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If national restrictions on capital prevent the planned investment, then quality of care will be affected.If capital resources are not made available for NHS England to replace the Specialist LD low secure unit, staff uncertainty will grow and may impact on the ability to maintain safe services.
Estates strategic framework (page 24)Prioritise and sequence capital investment (page 24)Seek alternative funding sources.Relationship with Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership (STP) planning and prioritisation (page 25)Plan for Whalley site and learning disability (LD) low secure unit (page 25)
Managing demand for our services
If demand for our services increases above the level for which we are funded, then both delivery of our services and our financial resources may be impaired, resulting in adverse impacts upon quality of care and financial performance.
Adopt neighbourhood level preventative, integrated approach to care to manage demand. (page 28)Manage demand more effectively in partnership with primary care (page 28)Standardise pathways of careInnovate to meet needs at earliest stage in their condition/pathway (page 7)Seek opportunities through provision of physical community services to support self care (page 28)
System leadership If we do not develop our senior leaders to work in partnership across the health and care system, there is a risk to ongoing sustainability in North Mersey/ Cheshire and Merseyside.
Adopt system leadership role in Sefton and Liverpool through Provider Alliances. (page 28)PROSPECT new secure care model leadership across Cheshire and Merseyside (page 29)Explore other opportunities for greater impact through partnerships (page 28)
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Contact detailsContact us at the following address:Mersey Care NHS Foundation TrustV7 Building, Kings Business Park, Merseyside, L34 1PJ
@Mersey_Care
MerseyCareNHSFoundationTrust
MerseyCareNHSFT
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