We have developed this one-year system operational plan to outline in one place, the activities that will be undertaken in 2024/25 to support delivery of our agreed priorities. It includes the information required by NHSE to describe how we will meet the national NHS objectives and our wider local operational priorities at system level within the context of our ICP Strategy and Joint Forward Plan. We have an agreed financial recovery programme, which is a core part of our operational plan and is an essential first step in the return to a sustainable financial position for the system.

While this is a one-year plan it also draws on our emerging medium-term plans and a focus within that on transformation through the lens of proactive and preventative support offers for the population. We will use our Inequalities Strategy once published, and our Places to focus on integrated working, bringing a more holistic offer to local populations, ensuring that we gain better understanding of the needs of our residents and adjusting our service offer where needs be to fulfil these. This means that this plan also includes, for example, deliverables around Health Inequalities and Children and Young People, work which will make the most impact in the short term but also transformation actions which if we start now will have impact in future years.

As well as setting out our priorities, we use this document to hold ourselves to account for our delivery throughout the year.

What’s contained in our Operational Plan?

The purpose of the operational plan is to summarise national and system priorities, and how we will deliver them.  The operational plan is broken down into seven parts.

1. The Key achievements in 2023/24 will give you an overview of some of the successes we achieved as a system during the past 12 months.
2. The Introduction sets out the purpose of the System Operational Plan and how it aligns to the Integrated Care Partnership Strategy and the Joint Forward Plan to address the challenges we face as a system.
3. The System Plan on a Page provides a visual representation of the linkages between the Integrated Care Partnership Strategy, the Joint Forward Plan and the 2024/25 System Operational Plan two key aims and priorities.
4. The Finance and Operational Context describes our financial strategy and our commitment to delivering financial sustainability, our system financial principles and the drivers behind our operational context.
5. What will we be doing as a system outlines our plans for 20242/25, aligned to the national objectives and our 5 operational priorities and our 2 key aims.  It also sets out the scope and ambition of each of the five system collaboratives, including the level of savings that we expect each of the collaboratives to deliver.
6. Measuring our success describes what we will deliver, how we will measure success and how we will work with our enablers to deliver the plan.
7. A set of Appendices sets out our priority metrics, aligned to our operational priorities and portfolios and an overview of our finance and workforce operational plan submissions to NHS England.

A set of Appendices sets out our priority metrics, aligned to our operational priorities and portfolios and an overview of our finance and workforce operational plan submissions to NHS England

Read the full 2024/2025 operational plan