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Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England

The 10 Year Health Plan for England seizes the opportunities provided by new technologies, medicines, and innovations to deliver better care for all patients – wherever they live and whatever they earn – and better value for taxpayers.

It is making 3 big shifts to how the NHS works:

  • from hospital to community
  • from analogue to digital
  • from sickness to prevention

To find out what the next decade of health and care looks like, read Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England.

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Urgent and emergency care plan 2025/26

This plan sets out how we’ll resuscitate urgent and emergency care, with a focus on getting patients out of corridors, keeping more ambulances on the road, and enable those ready to leave hospital to do so as soon as possible.

Elective care

How we are improving experience and giving people choice and control for elective care services.

Workforce

How we can put the NHS workforce on a sustainable footing and meet future challenges.

Mental health

Improving outcomes and experiences of people with mental health problems.

Integrated care

Giving people the support they need and removing disjointed care.

Cancer

Making sure everyone with cancer receives care, support and treatment.

Primary care

Offering patients a wider choice of personalised health services.

NHS IMPACT

The new, single, shared NHS improvement approach.

NHS @home

Providing better connected, more personalised care in homes and care homes.

News and blogs

NHS to bring ‘sponge-on-a-string’ cancer test to the high street

People with persistent heartburn or acid reflux will be offered an innovative ‘sponge on a string’ test in high-street pharmacies for the first time, as part of a new NHS pilot to help prevent oesophageal cancer. NHS England has today announced that dozens of pharmacies in England will offer new ‘heartburn health checks’ to test for Barrett’s oesophagus, […]