Please give us your views on our South Yorkshire NHS Joint Forward Plan

In March 2023 the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership published our initial Integrated Care Strategy for South Yorkshire with a commitment to continue to engage and involve people and communities as we translate it into action and delivery. 

Further to that, NHS South Yorkshire (also known as the Integrated Care Board) together with Partner NHS Foundation Trusts in South Yorkshire were required to develop an NHS Five Year Joint Forward Plan by the end of June 2023, to set out how NHS organisations in South Yorkshire will arrange NHS services to meet both the physical and mental health needs of our local population and fulfil the aims identified in the Integrated Care Strategy.

To help shape the Joint Forward Plan we continued to ask our citizens ‘What Matters to You about your Health and Wellbeing’ and used the findings from this to influence the content of the plan.

We have now submitted our draft Plan to NHS England and we would like to thank South Yorkshire Citizen for their feedback on our draft plan. ​​​​​​

Please note, this is a delivery plan for NHS organisations and has to be shared with NHS England for them to understand our plans and so is a long and technical document, as it needs to be to cover the requirements of us. However, as part of our commitment to engaging with our citizens we have also developed an Executive Summary which is more accessible and an Easy Read version.

The full report, which is 86 pages long (without appendices), can be read here.

The easy read version can be read here.

The summary version, which is 8 pages long, can be read here.

There is still time to comment on our plan, you can do so by emailing us on syicb.communications@nhs.net until 13 August. 

The final Joint Forward Plan with incorporated stakeholder feedback will be taken to the 6th September NHS South Yorkshire Board meeting and available on our website as a final document at this time.

The plan highlights a whole raft of actions that the NHS will undertake and there will be many opportunities for our citizens to get involved and have your say on these programmes and projects going forwards. Please visit the Get Involved part of our website for more details on opportunities to get involved.

Thank you