NHS Five Year Forward View will need support from clinical staff to succeed

Having the backing of NHS leaders isn’t enough: for this ambitious plan to succeed, we need the commitment of the clinical frontline

As the implementation phase of the NHS Five Year Forward View begins, the whole programme risks falling victim to its own early success. It has been so well received that too little attention has been paid to selling the message to clinical staff.

At the King’s Fund on Wednesday, NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens revealed that there have been 268 applications to become “vanguard” areas, developing new models of care such as multi-specialty community providers (MCPs) and integrated primary and acute care systems. Fifty hospital systems want to form integrated organisations funded with a capitation budget, while 170 GP-led consortia want to expand into secondary and community care services, some in collaboration with hospital consultants.

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