Following the consensus achieved by the Five Year Forward View and the “front-loaded” Spending Review settlement, 2017 has emerged as
a critical year for the NHS to achieve scale and pace in redesign.
New models of care and organisational forms are required to meet the financial and clinical challenges facing our health sector. The sector has been challenged to think beyond individual hospitals and CCGs, and local health economy (lHe) modelling is one key step to facilitating meaningful progress.