According to a recent investigation by Lord Darzi, the NHS is in ‘critical condition’. Currently, services have deteriorate to an extent where:

  • Many cannot get a GP or dental appointment
  • Waiting lists for hospital and community care have ballooned
  • Staff are demoralised and demotivated
  • Outcomes on major killers like cancer lag behind other countries.

This NHS 10-year Health Plan will help put the NHS at the front of the global genomics revolution and make the NHS the most AI-enabled care system in the world. The plan will put the NHS on top of ill health and make a reality of precision medicine. It will put the NHS on a sustainable footing by adopting a new value-based approach, that aligns resources to achieve better health outcomes. It will unlock broader economic benefits for the UK, helping to get people back into work and providing a bedrock for the industries of the future. This is a plan to transform the NHS into an engine for economic growth, rather than simply a beneficiary of it.

The NHS will be reformed through three radical shifts:

  • Hospital to community, moving from hospital-centric to a Neighbourhood Health Service to bring care into local communities and move healthcare professionals into patient-centred teams. This will revitalise access to GPs and enable hospitals to focus on providing world-class specialist care to those who need it. Read the government press release about the Neighbourhood Health Service here
  • Analogue to digital, creating the most digitally accessible health system in the world. Patients will have a ‘doctor in their pocket’ in the form of the NHS App, while staff will be liberated from a burden of bureaucracy and administration to:
  • Sickness to prevention, overall goal is to halve the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest regions, while increasing it for everyone, and to raise the healthiest generation of children ever. By working with businesses, employers, investors, local authorities and mayors to create a healthier country together.

These will be the core components of the NHS new care model. To support the scale of change needed, the government will ensure the whole NHS is ready to deliver these three shifts at pace:

  • Through a new operating model
  • By ushering in a new era of transparency
  • By creating a new workforce model with staff genuinely aligned with the future direction of reform
  • Through a reshaped innovation strategy
  • By taking a different approach to NHS finances.

Download a patient fact sheet here: What the 10 Year Health Plan means for you

 

 

Read the full NHS 10 Year Health Plan here

Easy read NHS 10 Year Health Plan: 10 Year Health Plan for England easy read