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<p>Independent sector providers have a significant role to play in supporting the
National Health Service as trusted partners, to recover elective services. The Elective
Recovery Taskforce was launched in 2022 to consider how capacity across the system
could be best utilised, including how insourcing could be used to meet the ambitions
on long waits. The taskforce concluded its work by publishing an implementation plan
in August 2023, which sets out a series of actions that have either been delivered,
or will be delivered, over the coming months.</p><p>Local systems are best placed
to consider how to utilise insourcing as part of their delivery plans, in a way which
works for their areas. To support the system, NHS England produced <em>Guidance for
trusts on the use of insourcing</em> and NHS Shared Business Services produced the
<em>Insourcing of Clinical Services Framework Agreement</em>.</p>
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