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🏥 UK Government Launches Groundbreaking Initiative To Transform NHS: A 10-Year Vision For Community-Based, Digital And Preventative Healthcare 🏥 The UK government has launched the most extensive national conversation about the NHS since its creation, inviting the public, NHS staff and health experts to contribute their ideas on shaping its future. Through an online platform - change.nhs.UK - available until early 2025, participants can share their views on what needs improvement and how to address current challenges. This feedback will be crucial in shaping the government’s 10-Year Health Plan, set to be published in spring 2025. The plan will centre on three major shifts in healthcare: moving care from hospitals to communities, transitioning from analogue to digital systems, and shifting the focus from treating illness to preventing it. Find out more and have you say on the future of the NHS here – https://lnkd.in/gTN6WkX4 #NHS #NHSConsultation #ChangeNHS #Healthcare #HealthConditionsOfDisability #DisabledPatients #UKPolitics #UKGovernment #HaveYourSay

There is broad consensus that the health system must transition from a sickness service to a health creating service. Yet while the idea of shifting to a preventative model of care is not novel, the actualisation of this has proven consistently difficult and unsuccessful. 90% of daily NHS activity happens in general practice and the community; demand on the primary care system is not only increasing in volume but also in complexity. Primary care is uniquely positioned for early intervention, as the first point of access in healthcare, and needs to be able to intervene at the earliest possible point, deliver high-quality care when people need it, and empower patients to live independent, healthy lives. This report, from Reform Think Tank, explores how the primary care system can be fundamentally reimagined, aligned to three key principles: to intervene earlier, respond to clinical need faster and avoid preventable decline. NHS England Department of Health and Social Care NHS Providers NHS Confederation British Medical Association Royal College of General Practitioners #nhs #health #primarycare #generalpractice #reform #policy #healthcare Rosie Beacon Patrick King Florence Conway

The UK’s Health Secretary has said that NHS waiting lists need to be millions lower by 2029 and is doing whatever it takes to bring them down - including leveraging capacity from the private sector to do this. The Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, wants to end disparities which mean that those who can afford it can get private car and those who can’t are being left behind. Instead, where there is spare capacity in the private sector, the NHS can draw upon this to get patients seen as fast and safely as possible. ❤️ MeditSimple is built upon fostering collaboration across the healthcare ecosystem - including both the NHS and private sector. Our platform enables patients and healthcare professionals to work together with easy access to medical notes, seamless referral processes, and a network for practitioners to share ideas. https://lnkd.in/eKVdEVMx (Alix Culbertson) #NHS #integratedcaresystems #privatemedical #NHSwaitinglist #meditsimple #UKhealthcare #medicine #NHS

Some lessons here for Canada and Alberta….

Have you explored our manifesto yet? As the UK prepares for a general election, we present a manifesto that examines how well the NHS is meeting its users’ priorities and describes a set of high impact policies to create a more person centred health service. We recommend that policymakers set out a commitment and strategy to restore confidence in public health and care services. This should involve reducing waiting times, improving people's experiences of care, and listening to patients and the public before introducing important changes. To read how our expertise in measuring, understanding, and improving people’s experience of care could help to restore public confidence in the NHS, click on the link below: https://lnkd.in/eq3eskBM #NHS #PersonCentredCare #PersonCentredHealthService #PickerManifesto #PickerPrinciples #HealthcareManifesto 

Darzi Report conclusions: the NHS is in a ‘critical condition’ but can be saved, with increased general practice funding and ‘fundamental strategic shift’ required. 3 priorities: 📌 Technology - increased use of 📌 Community Care - shift from hospital 📌 Prevention (is better than cure) The report argued that ‘care should be delivered in the community’, closer to where people live and work, and that hospitals ‘should be reserved for specialist care’. It said that there must be ‘a shift’ in the distribution of resources towards community-based primary care services. It added: ‘It builds on the fact that general practice is how most people commonly interact with the health service and GPs’ expertise as generalists. ‘Indeed, research by the NHS Confederation has demonstrated that spending in primary and community settings had a superior return on investment when compared with acute hospital services. ‘It therefore makes sense that this should be the fundamental strategic shift that the NHS aspires to make.’ #GeneralPractice #Health 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ehx2nrCZ

📊 Survey Insight: Public Preferences on NHS Priorities 📊 A recent survey shows that 60% of the public believe that if the NHS budget isn't increased, the government should prioritise making it easier to access community-based services, such as GPs and NHS dentists. Only 29% favor prioritising access to hospital care, including A&E and planned procedures. At Qualitas, we support the move towards enhancing community-based services. We believe that improving access to local healthcare can lead to better health outcomes and a more sustainable NHS. Discover how our AccessEase program can help your practice improve access and efficiency. Learn more about how we can support your community-based services. Learn more about AccessEase: https://bit.ly/3XHIncZ #NHS #Healthcare #CommunityCare #Qualitas #PrimaryCare #GPServices #HealthcareInnovation

The NHS is still alive, but we should all be concerned... Here's hoping that we're not just getting a diagnosis, but a prognosis. We'd all like to know the direction of travel and when the NHS will be in better health. Lord Darzi's report, released today, has made it clear that for Patients, access to services has been more challenging and got worse over the past 10-15 years. Trouble with accessing basically every service the NHS should be offering and improving. It's also shown that the 2012 Act has caused an endless reconfiguration of the NHS, which has distracted management from focussing on productivity and delivery of core services. For the workforce, who genuinely care about their patients, they've just seen everything around them crumble due to lack of capital investment, waiting lists grow due to massive shifts in workforce, so the growth in hospital based staff has just about coped with the additional demands of increase complexity, increased long term health challenges and significant increases in the number of children and young people needed acute care. There's been significant growth of regulators (many many more per hospital than there used to be), but reductions in community healthcare staffing which is the only enabler of flow out of hospitals which makes the capacity to care for the most acutely unwell possible. What does all this mean? Well - the report is light on policy recommendations because it was explicitly restricted from making them - but hopefully it means that the government will acknowledge what has been talked about for a very long time by everyone in health and care services, which is significant investment in care at home, out of the hospital and sorting out the desperate shortage of capital investment in both technology and buildings. #nhs #dhsc #lorddarzi #nhsengland #workforce #health #socialcare #primarycare https://lnkd.in/eDrp9Q9v

I was intrigued to read the government’s plan to transparently sharing hospital performance via a league table. Transparency with patients and public, especially if linked with an aim of improving standards in healthcare, can only be a good thing. This in combination with a robust 10 year plan and the health secretary’s 3 strategic shifts: hospital to community, analogue to digital & treatment to prevention have the potential to result in tangible positive change. Despite recent progress coming out of the pandemic, health outcomes in the UK are not as good as those in many comparable countries. Robust follow through is now required to translate the government’s plans across the NHS, in order to tackle the wider determinants of health and wellbeing, ultimately resulting in improved public health outcomes.