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3 July 2025
The Government’s 10 Year Health Plan for England has been launched, setting out a bold, ambitious and necessary new course for the NHS.
The plan fundamentally reinvents our approach to healthcare so that we can guarantee the NHS will be there for all who need it for generations to come.
It has been shaped by the experiences and expectations of members of the public, patients, our partners and the health and care workforce across the country, reflecting the changes that people wanted to see.
Through the ‘three shifts’ – from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from treatment to prevention – we will personalise care, give more power to patients, and ensure that the best of the NHS is available to all.
- From hospital to community; transforming healthcare with easier GP appointments, extended neighbourhood health centres, better dental care, quicker specialist referrals, convenient prescriptions, and round-the-clock mental health support – all designed to
bring quality care closer to home. - From analogue to digital; creating a seamless healthcare experience through digital innovation, with a unified patient record eliminating repetition, AI-enhanced doctor services and specialist self-referrals via the NHS app, a digital red book for children’s health information, and online booking that ensures equitable NHS access nationwide.
- From sickness to prevention; shifting to preventative healthcare by making healthy choices easier—banning energy drinks for under-16s, offering new weight loss services, introducing home screening kits, and providing financial support to low-income families.
You can read the plan on the Government website.
In Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, we heard from 900 people and held 30 engagement sessions to gather local feedback to help shape the 10 Year Health Plan for England. Our 10 Year Plan Engagement Report summarises the outputs from all of our engagement activities.
Review of patient safety across the health and care landscape
An independent review of the patient safety landscape across health and care, led by Dr Penny Dash, has also been published, recommending significant changes to streamline the current complex system.
The review sets out nine key recommendations, which helped inform – and should be read alongside – Chapter 6 of the 10 Year Health Plan, which sets out broader action to improve quality of care through greater transparency.