How will STPs affect your NHS?

What is the STP?
How will STPs affect your NHS?
11/01/2017
Public Information Meeting
Your health and care system may be radically different in three years time.
Somerset is one of 44 areas of NHS England instructed to create ‘Sustainability
and Transformation Plans’ (STP’s) in 2016; redesigning health and care systems
over the next 5 years.
Somerset’s STP aims to reduce costs by £388 million over the next five years in
addition to £42 million over the next year. Full details are available from the
Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SOMPAR) website
www.sompar.nhs.uk.
The STP aims to make huge changes to health and social care in Somerset, for
example via:
• emphasising disease prevention and people managing their own health
• getting people home from hospital as quickly as possible
• delivering more care near people’s homes
• reducing the number of hospital beds in the county
• delivering more information and advice via digital technology
• supporting communities to look after themselves and their most vulnerable
members.
As these proposed changes are complex and far reaching, and public involvement
is vital to inform their development, the League of Friends has organised a public
meeting to help us all understand what the proposed changes mean and how they
may be delivered. Our speakers will be Dr. Nick Broughton, Chief Executive of
SOMPAR (one of the authors of the STP) and Geoff Barr, a Governor of the Royal
Devon and Exeter Hospital who will be speaking as a member of Keep Our NHS
Public and a supporter of Save Our Hospital Services.
Please do join us for refreshments from 6.30pm - and there will be plenty of time for
questions during the meeting.
6:30 for 7pm, Wednesday 11 January 2017
Methodist Church Hall
Palmer Street
South Petherton, Somerset, TA13 5DB