This ‘how-to’ guide’ aims to support local commissioners to develop 5-year strategic plans for delivering the outcomes and ambitions set out in the Everyone Counts planning guidance.
Download Setting 5-year ambitions for improving outcomes: A how to guide for commissioners
Using expert insights, this short guide sets out key practical steps and learning to support commissioners to put outcomes at the heart of their plans.
The table below shows the 7 Outcome ambitions covering the NHS Outcome Framework domains
| Outcomes | Ambitions |
| 1. Preventing people from dying prematurely | 1. Securing additional years of life for the people of England with treatable mental and physical health conditions. |
| 2. Enhancing quality of life for people with long-term conditions
3. Helping people to recover from episodes of ill health or following injury |
2. Improving the health related quality of life of the 15 million+ people with one or more long-term condition, including mental health conditions. |
| 3. Reducing the amount of time people spend avoidably in hospital through better and more integrated care in the community, outside of hospital. | |
| 4. Increasing the proportion of older people living independently at home following discharge from hospital. | |
| 4. Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care | 5. Increasing the number of people with mental and physical health conditions having a positive experience of hospital care. |
| 6. Increasing the number of people with mental and physical health conditions having a positive experience of care outside hospital, in general practice and in the community. | |
| 5. Treating and caring for people in a safe environment and protect them from avoidable harm | 7. Making significant progress towards eliminating avoidable deaths in our hospitals caused by problems in care. |