Shaping population health: The strategic role of Advanced Foundation Trusts

The 10-Year Health Plan (10YHP) seeks to give high-performing NHS providers greater autonomy and financial flexibility, enabling them to play a stronger role in improving population health. This includes the ability to retain surpluses and invest directly in prevention, tackle the wider determinants of health and reduce longstanding inequalities. The approach is place-based, with services shaped around local need and delivered closer to communities.

Through the Advanced foundation trust (FT) programme, trusts can apply for a new status that offers increased strategic and operational freedom, alongside a capability-based approach to oversight. The model is designed to shift power closer to providers, clinicians, patients and local communities.

Advanced FTs will be expected to take on broader leadership roles, leading transformation across neighbourhoods or care pathways and supporting system priorities in partnership with integrated care boards (ICBs). With these enhanced freedoms, they will be better positioned to invest in prevention, address health inequalities and drive sustained improvements in population health across their local areas.

This virtual peer learning event will share emerging practice on how FTs are preparing for the new FT model set out in the 10YHP. Trust leaders will also have the opportunity to explore how the statutory freedoms available to advanced FTs can be used to improve population health outcomes through peer discussions.

We’ll explore:

• How the new freedoms for advanced FTs can support approaches to improving population health outcomes.
• Examples of practice in neighbourhood working and delivering more integrated care.
• How increased strategic and operational autonomy, a capability-based regulatory approach from NHS England and greater financial flexibility can enable Advanced FTs to play a stronger leadership role locally and nationally, including supporting improvement in challenged organisations.

• Insight into how Advanced FTs can use statutory freedoms to support population health and enable more integrated working.
• Examples of practice in neighbourhood working to improve population health outcomes.
• Opportunities to connect with peers from other trusts and share learning.

• Executive directors (strategy directors, finance directors)
• Non-executive directors
• Chief executives
• Trust leaders with a role in neighbourhood working 

This event is exclusive to NHS Providers members and free to attend as part of your membership. Spaces are limited, so early booking is recommended.

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