The Government has published its revisions to the Operating Framework for the current financial year. They aim to support a health service that puts patients at the heart of decision making, focuses on quality and outcomes over processes and has more devolved responsibilities.
Alongside changes to existing targets and priorities, the document outlines policies in areas such as reconfiguration, payment systems, management efficiencies and the future of community services. These reforms appear to be laying the foundations for “substantive systemic changes” to come in the Operating Framework for 2011/12.
This Briefing 204 highlights the key points from the paper.