What we want to see in next year’s 10 Year Health Plan
We have drawn on the views and experiences of our staff and partners to highlight changes we believe will deliver significant and sustainable improvements if included in the Government’s 10 Year Health Plan due to be launched next year.
Following Lord Darzi’s independent review of the NHS, the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England launched a national consultation to develop a 10-Year Health Plan to set the NHS on a path for the future.
On Monday 2 December we submitted our organisational response, incorporating feedback from staff and lay partners on what’s working well, what’s not and ideas for change. Our response considered the Government’s three key shifts, summarised as:
- hospital to community
- analogue to digital
- sickness to prevention
We put forward five key areas for action, with detailed recommendations, backed up with case studies, for each area:
- A whole-system approach to integrating care and improving population health
- A more strategic approach to investment and planning
- Setting a clear expectation for the development of person-centred services and understanding and measuring how well we do this
- Developing cross-sector ‘anchor’ strategies, with key roles for large NHS organisations
- Promoting translational research and innovation through partnership with industry and academia
Read our organisational response.
Professor Bob Klaber OBE, director of strategy, research and innovation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, said: "Our response draws on a huge amount of genuinely inspiring input and ideas from our staff. The Government’s three key shifts have really resonated here, generating much discussion about the ‘how’ as well as the ‘what’ and leading to our call for a fourth shift, from fragmentation to integration.
“The move from hospital to community is often presented as shifting money from organisations that run hospitals to organisations that run community and primary care services. But the real value will come if we stop focusing on who owns which buildings and who employs whom, and instead enable specialist clinicians to work in partnership with GP and community colleagues and with patient and local communities to provide care when and where it will have the most benefit.”
The consultation is still open to individuals. Submit your individual response and help build an NHS fit for the future.
