I’m going to keep this blog short and sweet because I know
how busy every manager who has diabetes in their portfolio, is going to be.
The much anticipated opportunity to bid for £44m, an extra
£4m than originally announced in the NHS England Operations and Contracting Guidance in September.
Follow this
link to find all the information. The
deadline for submitting your bid is the 18th
of January 2017 – 25 working days. Challenging
over the Christmas period.
The funding is:
“To support the
implementation of the Five Year Forward View vision of better health, better patient
care and improved NHS efficiency, NHS England has created a transformation
fund. This funding will enable local areas to deliver on key ambitions
identified by the independent cancer
and mental health taskforces. Additionally we will continue to
build on the Transforming Care priority for those with learning
disabilities and kick start, at scale, revolutions for diabetes treatment and prevention”.
“Revolutions”! Not only have you got to get these bids in
fast but there is a clear steer that the bids have to engender “Revolution”.
NHS England want to
support bids for the following 4 areas:
·
Structured education £10m
·
Treatment targets £17m
·
Multi-Disciplinary Footcare Teams (MDFTs) £8m
·
Diabetes Inpatient Specialist Nursing Teams
(DISNs) £8m
It is worth
noting the breakdown of how much funding NHS England want to put into each of
the 4 priority areas. This might
influence your bid focus.
Another point
of note is that bids need to reference and be submitted via STPs:
“Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) are central to
this process and all bids should be explicitly linked to the relevant local STP
plans. This process is open to any STP, although individual organisations or
alliances may bid on behalf of an STP for this funding; submission of
applications must be via STPs.”
There is one thing I think that this less clear:
“It is also to give an indicative sense of any modelling
assumptions of transformation funding beyond 2018/19, should this be available”.
My understanding of this statement is that if you do not bid
or are unsuccessful in your bid this automatically means that, if there is any
further funding in 2018/19, you will not be eligible.
So it is well worth putting aside your turkey to get your
bid in.
I have a feeling that despite the challenging deadline over
Christmas and getting agreements. I am
very optimistic that CCGs/Collaborative of CCGs/STPs will bid for this funding
in their droves.
25 days – Ready,
Steady, GO!!
