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Summary
Our health system is in crisis. If we don’t act now, we risk the NHS ceasing to exist as a publicly funded service, free at the point of use.
But if we seize the opportunities provided by new technology, medicines, and innovation, then we can deliver better care for all patients - no matter where they live or how much they earn - and better value for taxpayers.
Our 10 Year Health Plan, backed by £29b, will get the NHS back on its feet and to make it fit for the future.
Here's what we're doing:
From hospital to community
- Easier to see your GP and end the 8am scramble for appointments, through more GPs, longer opening hours and a guaranteed online appointment in 24 hours.
- A Neighbourhood Health Centre in every community, open six days a week, 12 hours a day and staffed by GPs, nurses, care workers, physios, mental health workers and employment advisors.
- NHS dental appointments thanks to new dental contracts tying newly qualified dentists to the NHS.
- Faster referrals to specialists, prescriptions from your pharmacist and 24/7 neighbourhood mental health centres and dedicated mental health emergency departments.
From analogue to digital
- A digital single patient record will spare you repeating yourself and allow clinicians to design care around you.
- AI-assisted doctors and self-referrals at your fingerprints through the NHS App, self-referral for talking therapies, and digitised therapies.
- A digital red book will keep your children’s health information in one place.
From sickness to prevention
- A partnership with supermarkets to set new standards for healthy options - making the healthy choice the easy choice for families.
- A ban on energy drinks and a smoke free generation.
- Expansion of weight loss services and treatments to tackle obesity.
- New screening programmes, including home kits to test for cervical cancer.
- More financial support for those on low incomes to help give kids the healthiest start in life.
- More Mental Health Support Teams in schools.
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