The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health has made an unarguable case for transforming mental health care in England. The costs of mental ill health – whether to the individual, their family or carer, the NHS or wider society – are stark. The opportunity of action cannot be ignored, and this document describes how we will take the action required.

This week marks the first anniversary of the publication of the Five Year Forward View. Published on 23 October 2014 by the organisations that oversee health and care services in England, it set out why change is needed and outlined a clear vision for the future of the NHS. It started the move towards a […]

Time to Deliver sets out the journey the NHS is undertaking to deliver the Five Year Forward View. It charts the actions taken to improve patient care up until June 2015, steps taken to support financial sustainability and service transformation in 2015/16, and outlines how the NHS will deliver on the outcomes stated in the Five Year Forward View.

Purpose To consider why change is needed, what success might look like, and how we might get there. The Forward View will provide: A clear vision, setting out the particular contribution that the NHS and others can make to the health of our nation, and the transformation required to meet the changing needs of current […]

The technical briefing and annex outlines the modelling and scenarios underpinning the basis of the NHS Five Year Forward View.

NHS England Chief Executive, Simon Stevens, has pointed to the publication of the Five Year Forward View as one of the most significant moments of the past year. He highlights the shared direction of the NHS for the next five years as NHS England publishes its second Annual Report and accounts today. In his introduction to […]

NHS England’s National Director for Mental Health, Claire Murdoch, takes a look at the progress made in the first year of the Five Year Forward View programme. We are currently marking the first anniversary of the publication of the Mental Health Taskforce Report and there are three things I want to say about this. Thank you; […]

An outline of the progress made in the first year of the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health programme.

Responding to HM Treasury’s announcement of additional funding for the NHS, Simon Stevens, CEO of NHS England said: “Last month the NHS itself came together to chart a new direction for health in this country. Our NHS Forward View unleashed an amazingly wide consensus – amongst patient groups, local communities, frontline staff and NHS leaders. […]

This week marks the first anniversary of the launch of the NHS Five Year Forward View (5YFV) and progress on its delivery will feature as part of NHS England’s Annual General Meeting tomorrow. Three main planks of the 5YFV involve prevention, new models of care and efficiency. One year on from the publication of the FYFV, 50 Vanguards […]